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    mating flight / swarm ?

    In what way does a mating flight differ from a swarm please ? I was just cleaning out the chicken house at 2.30pm when I heard buzzing overhead and lots of bees flew south - they seemed to know where they were going, and weren't heading upwards. So I assume this was a small swarm. They were...
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    accidental brood and a half !

    At the end of last season I left each of my 3 hives with a super to keep them going. They also had a block of fondant each later on. There are no Queen excluders on obviously. I did my first inspection recently, and all 3 colonies have laying queens which is great. However in the brood box...
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    Applying oxalic 3.2% with a super in place

    I would like to pick your collective brains ! I was intending to apply oxalic acid (bought trickle 2) after the next cold snap. I was just reading the instructions on the bottle (don't look so surprised !) and note that it says never to apply if there is a super on the hive. I have from the...
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    uniting Q- and Q+ colonies

    I have united Q- colony with queen right - but have confused myself ! I was not sure what to do with the supers which were full of bees as we actually had a nice day today ! also I will need to get the supers off soon to do my apiguard. So, I had a queenright colony on 1 brood box plus QX plus...
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    casts in nucs

    I caught 2 casts on 17th June, and put each into separate nuc boxes. My poly nuc shows no sign of a queen, but my second wooden nuc now has a laying queen. The wood nuc has a solid floor If "poly" continues queenless I intend to unite it with the second nuc, and put them into a hive (my last...
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    eggs !

    I did an AS on 30th May. I made colony #3, with a sealed QC in it, stores etc. On 20th June I checked this new colony #3, and there was no sign of any Q, eggs or larvae or any QC On 27th June I checked it again and found lots of eggs and some big and small larvae....hurrah I thought ! On 5th...
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    hive full up with brood

    I have 2 colonies in WBC hives, both doing very nicely in the new summer that has happened ! Each colony has 1x BB and 1 x super. They have brood on all of the frames, and I saw eggs on the outside face of the outside frame too, so I know they are getting low on space for the queen to lay...
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    pupae on landing board

    This afternoon, I went out to check my hives hadn't been blown / washed away by this delightful weather. All was ok and no bees were flying ... but on the landing board were around 7 small dead bees that weren't there this morning and 1 white pupa. I presume the bodies are the result of bees...
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    how to move a WBC hive

    I need to move a WBC hive down to the bottom of the garden - about 300 metres. The weather is still very mild - only one or two light frosts so far ...bees still coming out to play ! Once the winter arrives properly I plan to make the move. Any suggestions ? - it is rather heavy ! Do I remove...
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    storing partly used supers

    In order to start apiguard treatment, I have removed the 4 supers from my 3 wbc hives. I have extracted the honey from 2 supers from 1 hive. The other 2 hives had not filled their 1 x super each as one was a late nuc and the other a late swarm. some frames are drawn but empty and others are...
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    bees out of hive

    I'm not sure whats going on with my bees ! We were away for a few weeks and on my return after lovely bee weather the bees had made 6 or so queen cells which were almost sealed. The brood box was full. So yesterday from my colony (A) I made up 2 nucs (B & C)from the 10 full frames in A...
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    WBC hive floor and over-wintering empty hive

    We are lucky enough to have obtained a complete wbc second hand hive. no bees yet ! We have 2 queries and would like some input from experienced beekeepers. : 1. the hive has a solid wood floor ... should we change to an open mesh ? 2. As we have no bees should we put the complete hive in the...
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    WMB hive floor and over-wintering

    We are lucky enough to have obtained a complete wbc second hand hive. no bees yet ! We have 2 queries and would like some input from experienced beekeepers. : 1. the hive has a solid wood floor ... should we change to an open mesh ? 2. As we have no bees should we put the complete hive in the...
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