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I have noticed hardly any drone comb or drones in my 3 hives this year. Has anyone else experienced this. Can I read anything into it? 2 of my hives were formed from a split and the third from a "shook swarm" in May. There has been plenty of activity all summer, but only the shooked hive...

I want to expand my apiary with the addition of a couple of WBCs. I intend to use top beespace for these hives. I am concerned that by using TBS I effectively reduce the space between the bottom of the brood frames and the WBC floor by 7 mm, leaving only 10mm or so of space. Surely this space...

I decided to put anti-woodpecker mesh around my two hives last week. I used mesh with a hole size of 1" vertical and 1 1/2" horizontal on the first hive. Standing back admiring my work I noticed that the mesh would probably allow a woodpecker to lean through and attack the hive through the...

I noted the following post from Beesrob on another forum on 10 Sept: "Suit or no suit. have to say that as far as I can recall I have never been stung by anything in my life. I'm told it is because of the colour of my hair [red] and that I stink to the average insect so bang goes that affair I...

I read somewhere (?) that it it is simple to change from bottom to top beespace for National hives (and presumably all wooden hives) purely by increasing the distance down from the lip of the super/bb to the top of the frame rail/support during construction of flat hive kits. Is it really that...