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Thank you both. I'm clearly being too impatient. Thanks for your reassurances, I'll hang on another couple of weeks

Please could the experienced beekeeping community please give me some advice about the situation that I now find myself in. This is the sequence of events (timings approximate) 1. 8 weeks ago put a super on the hive above a queen excluder as bees looked cramped and going on a weeks holiday...

If it is of any consolation to you, I received similar (critical and demoralizing) comments as a novice from Oliver90Owner. Perhaps disregard any further comments from that source...........

Ouch, Oliver90Owner! Completed a course and have two good books. Please don't make assumptions about novices purely because you have more experience. I have no wish to hurt these living creatures, that is precisely why I was asking for advice! Chairman of local BKA has already inspected my hive...

Drunken bees Thank you all for your speedy replies. I am feeding the bees in order to help them to draw out the super that I placed on the hive quite early in the season. The reason I did that was because they had expanded rapidly in early spring and I was worried that they were running out of...

Dear all, I am a novice beekeeper having just taken my hive through it's first winter. At my last inspection I discovered what looked like mould in the light syrup that I am feeding. I removed it immediately, and continued the inspection. Frankly, they all looked drugged. I could have inspected...