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Hope you are better soon.

One of mine was doing the same. Gave them another super yesterday and swapped to open mesh floor, no sign of any bearding today. No queen cells present yesterday either.

Moved my overwintered poly nuc bees into a polyhive. It is the first nuc I created so I am thrilled they are doing well. Added another super to a full hive. Play cups seen but no queen cells as yet.

I am putting more fondant on this week after the forecast.

I read about the problem before and was going to make a kingspan bonnet but realised the poly feeder I have for the poly nuc is thicker polystyrene so put that on without any feed. You could also pack the feed space with insulation if you wished. I don't like the built in side feeder. The nuc is...

polynuc condensation I haven't had a problem with condensation. My polynuc is doing well. I left the empty feeder on then the roof. The polyfeeder is quite thick polystyrene. Saved me a job. I cut kingspan for my hives. I bought a polyhive in the winter sales because I have been impressed with...

It is good advice that everyone is giving you. A few years ago there was a hard winter and a lot of hives were lost even by experienced bee keepers. There will be other opportunities to acquire bees. Being patient and maybe doing a course through South Staffs beekeeping Association would (or...

Two pairs of Marigolds - last year I was stung once through one pair so took to wearing two.

Good luck. It is brilliant that you are thinking it through so thoroughly. I hope you and your "partners" get on well and have a long time beekeeping together. I think it best you own everything and they just provide the land. I am sure you will work something out to the benefit of all.

:iagree: Afermo wrote Suggest you clip the queens before spring too, as otherwise they will probably swarm before you know it and then you lose bees and crop." Thank you. I may regret not clipping them but at the moment I am not planning to clip them. It took me until now to be brave enough to...

I am on my third year and this has been the trickiest. Drone laying queen in one hive after an AS but after transferring a frame from another hive, they have a beautiful laying queen. The frames of capped brood were a lovely surprise when i returned from my holidays. Well done girls! And today I...

After moving all n sieving. My elusive queen was right at the bottom of the original brood box, hiding in the shadows. I had almost given up looking believing she couldn't possibly be left in there. Good luck.

I used sudocreme baby cream for scaly mite. It did the trick.

When painting mine I mixed a little sand with the paint for the feeder to help the bees to grip the sides better. It seems to work well. I think it was a tip from someone on this forum last year.

Pargyle said"We collected our next lot of ex-barn hens today from the British Hens Welfare Trust. The fox had our previous hens a few months ago and for various reasons we have only just got round to replacing them" Glad to here you have your wire buried deeper than ground level because the...

I think it is the B team so it must be a caste. LOL.

The same happened to a queen I introduced last year. No harm was done she performed well last year and looking good this year.