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Due to all the swarming earlier this season I have too many colonies & not enough hives so I'm selling off a 5 frame 14X12 nuc to free up one hive & part fund a new one. The Queen is a Carni/Hampshire cross, very good tempered & laying well & the conony is free of Varoa & all other disease...

I don't know what I'm doing wrong. I've got 3 14X12 hives that are all the same - they have drawn out all the BB foundation & filled so much of it with nectar & honey that the queens are running out of space to lay. Each has a super of 10 frames of foundation & there are bees in the supers...

Most of the books I have, say bees will travel up to 5 miles to get to OSR. The nearest OSR to our apiary is only 1.4 miles as the bee flys. But our little darlings have totally ignored it. Occasionally we'll spot one bee returning covered in pollen, but thats it, one bee, no more. So how far...

Another Newbie question - Just when should you mark new queens? The first time you see them? After mating? After they start laying? Just that my wife & I have marked 3 queens recently (the first time we saw them) & then started wondering if it would have been better waiting for a couple of...

Hi, newbie question again: I've got a national frame in my 14X12 that now has loads of capped drone cells below it. Should I remove the comb now? After what was maybe an over enthusiastic Oxiliac acid treatment, there is zero varoa drop & none in the few drone cells that I opened in the bottom...

Apparently Richard Hammond is presenting some new research that has discovered 'heater bees' that keep the cluster & brood warm & that the temperature of the brood determines what tasks the full-grown bee will perform.

Did anyone manage to buy any sale items there today? I got there late, only to bump into one guy leaving who had got there before the sale started & still didn't manage to buy what he wanted (a brood box). Looks like theres a lot of new beeks!