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Hi So I checked the apiary today which consisted of 5 hives and all of them are dead. 4 have no signs of life, the floor is covered with dead bees including queens and some dead on the frames with one queen as shown in the photo. The other has a small cluster of live bees but no sign of the...

I'm interested to know what process is used to sterilise jars for the mid size organisations. I get that you can boil jars in a pan or put them on a shelf in the oven but what about those with hundreds of jars each harvest? I would imagine the people doing thousands of jars have expensive...

Hi I have a hive that I started last year. It's done really well gave lots of honey last year, made it through winter great and is thriving. I was going to split it into this hive + nuc but would like to expand quicker if possible. I have just got a new site which I am keen to put a few hives...

I got my first hive last year and it has not only made it through winter but is absolutely thriving. I did my first inspection and it was packed with bees. Lots of honey in the brood and the super I left on over winter almost full of honey. I want to split as I have another hive ready to go...

Hi I am a first year beekeeper. My hive has gone well and I have just harvested 1 super. I have a queen laying well, plenty of stores in the brood and another super filing up. I would like to split my colony by keeping my hive and adding two more in nucs that can overwinter and go into hives...

Hi So I have an out apiary on someone elses land and I just received my first nuc 2 days ago. I placed it in the area agreed and was going to take my hive there at the weekend to transfer them mid day. The land owner has been down and seen the bees and decided he'd like to move them further...

So I bought a wooden national standard for my first hive but found out the nuc I ordered was 14x12 so I bought a Maisemore Poly 14x12. The bees arrived yesterday and in a nuc which I will be transferring at the weekend. My question is are there any mods to the maisemore hive that I need to do...

Hi I really want to start beekeeping next year. I would like, eventually, to get some hives on farmland and start queen rearing, breeding etc. I can see myself really getting into it. To start with however i'd like to spend a while with just 1 or 2 hives, preferably in my garden where I can...

Hi I have wanted to keep bees for years but always thought I needed a huge garden to keep them away from the kids and neighbours. I have seen it mentioned that people keep them in a farmers field or similar. I would like to know how to go about this and whether it is reasonably easy to find...