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I have packed up my beekeeping and sold all of my kit which was collected yesterday. I have around 200 very angry and confused bees hanging around the empty apiary site. Any thoughts on how long it will take them to disperse?

I am in my third season of beekeeping and have decided that I have given it a fair go, but it isn’t for me. It has become more of a chore than I hoped for, I think I am just not very good and my family need the garden back. As a result I am going to sell up. My colonies are in a bit of a state...

I am seriously thinking about giving up. I'm in my third season and I really don't feel I am any good at this. 2 swarms today even though I've been trying to keep on top of inspections and now my collection has gone up to 6 colonies. Getting fed up with being stung... and I want to be able to go...

Last season my three colonies were pretty mild-mannered and no trouble to have in the garden. I went in to the hives yesterday to put the QEs back in place and picked up a sting in the process. There was a lot of bracing comb with brood inside, linking the frames in the brood box to the frames...

I noticed that one of my colonies wasn't queen-right about 4 weeks ago so I purchase a new, mated, Buckfast queen which arrived just 19 days ago. I put her in the hive and checked about 4 days later. There was no sign of her (she was marked) and no eggs. I then added a test frame from another...

Looking for a queen in my local area- Northwest Leicestershire, South Derbyshire, Notts. Urgent!

I have a colony which is weak and a real concern for overwintering. It barely fills the brood box at the moment, but has a new, actively laying queen. I am feeding syrup and they have been storing this well on the frames. Inspected today and there are around 10 queen cells with larvae but not...

OK, so here is the scenario. I had 2 colonies that were for some reason not queen right. Out of the blue both queens seemed to disappear. One was a queen formed from a swarm cell and the other was the original queen which swarmed and was recaptured. All had seemed well and then about 2 weeks...

I have a colony with a new queen which emerged from an emergency queen cell about 5 weeks ago. I was pleased to note that she was laying about 10 days ago, but on inspection today it looks as though she is predominantly laying drone. Moreover, on one of the frames there are two sealed queen...

I was just popping out to feed my bees this afternoon when one of the colonies decided to swarm. Fantastic sight, which I have never seen before. And the noise! Fortunately they landed in a tree in a garden a couple of doors down, so I was able to recapture them immediately. I now have them in...

My first year of beekeeping. Should I have entrance reducers on or off at this time of year? Does it matter that much?

I am a newbie beekeeper who started up this year with a single nuc. This showed signs of swarming in May so I did an AS. It swarmed anyway. I caught the swarm and meanwhile got another nuc. In the space of a few weeks I went from one to three colonies and I am feeling a little overwhelmed to...