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I have a nuc with DLW(s), if I move it aside and replace it with another nuc that needs building up a bit, will the flying bees go to the new nuc and beg their way in and will the DLW(s) also fly to the new nuc or do DLWs stay in the hive like queens? Or is this just a bad idea...?

I need to take a frame of eggs, but no bees, to a colony several miles away, the journey will take between 30-60 minutes depending on the (bank holiday weekend at the seaside) traffic. the plan is to put it in a nuc surrounded by frames of foundation, do I need to worry about it getting chilled...

These bits of comb were taken from different hives during the last few weeks, tonight my wife noticed that the cells on one were larger than those in the other, is this just normal variation? Both of the combs were built in ekes above the crown board while feeding 2:1 syrup if that makes any...

BEGINNERS COURSE Introductory Course to Beekeeping 2016/17 Torbay Beekeepers Association are offering an eight week course, one year’s membership to the British Beekeepers Association (which includes membership to the Devon Association of which we are a branch), plus hands on experience at the...

Just wondering what these 2 bees are doing, I presume one is attacking the other as I had just thwarted some small scale robbing, but at the end of the video the victim bee just wanders into the hive and the other one simply walks away.. https://youtu.be/bfebuRYd3yg

Not so sunny Torbay ATM :\ New to beekeeping this year though went to the local branches apiary all through last year and did a beginners beekeeping course over the winter, then bought a bunch of equipment off someone who had decided bees weren't for him. So now we (me and the wife) have 4...