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I want to put a super back on for the bees to clean after extraction but I managed to break a couple of frames/wax. Once it's been cleaned up for a few days can I replace the broken frames with new foundation and leave the good drawn frames in? If so do I put foundation in the middle or...

Took a super off this evening and extracted it but lots of set honey/sugar in the frames is there an way to get this out??

I have a hive with a super on 2 weeks ago the super was filling up and some honey was capped. Today I take a look and no capped honey and no stores in the brood box. Is this due to robbing??

Anyone selling a queen excluder in the Chichester area

I emailed my local village mag and asked to put a ad in there for a plot to put hives with my email address. Got good response

Is 11 drawn frames ok in a super or should it be reduced to 10 when drawn out?

Hi just wandering if you can feed while using apiguard?

I have a wet super to go back on but I want to get another super drawn out can I put a box of foundation on as well as the wet box? If so wet one on top or bottom?

When is it time to take super from under the brood box.?

I dunno why but I was just thinking what would happen if you was to unite a week hive with a laying worker to a strong hive with a good laying queen. Would the queen kill the worker?

Started keeping bees this season and just took off my first lot of honey (16 jars)

Does honey have to be capped before extracted?

Ok thank you

Hi new bee hear. Is it ok to inspect the hives on a cloudy day?

Chichester i am Sam. I think I will just leave them to it.

I'm a new be so this might be a silly question! I fed the bees while they was drawing brood comb and they did that in about 10 days. So the question is can I feed to encourage them to draw out supers as mine are all new foundation? ? ? ?

Enjoy. I've just finished my 8 week bigginers course.

I hived a swarm and it left after 2 nights. So I got another swam and hived it but this time with a queen excluder over the floor. It's been 6 days and comb is being drawn is it safe to take the queen excluder away now?

Oh I have a omf is it worth changing it to a solid one at first then. Or just put the inspection board in?

Rapped feeder ordered to solve the dripping problem. Hive is secondhand but scorched inside. Just received a cool about a swarm that's been out over night if I hive them What's the best way tip in or tip at the bottom of a ramp? When do I feed? And I will use a queen excluder under the brood...