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Are there any rules of thumb regrding if or when to move from a single brood to a brood and a half or a double brood? I've currently got a colony on a single national that has eight frames of densely packed, capped brood ( plus two uncapped frames and a dummy board. I coudln't see if there were...

Hi, I'm a new beek and this is my first winter. I very briefly opened my hive today and found a couple of the frames in the brood box had mould - a few patches of 2 -3 inches across. Is this something I should worry about? Do I need to do anything to get rid of it - if so, what? Thanks in advance.

This is my first year keeping bees. I have noticed eggs amongst the debris on the varroa board. I don't think this is a good thing. Can the more experienced beeks comment please? I may have a had a supercedure or a failing queen. I'm wondering now if I've got a laying worker(s)and the other...

Hi, I'm a new beekeeper this year. I have one small colony which I thought I'd more or less bedded down for the winter. The hive is in its third week of the second apiguard treatment. This afternoon, I found a queen\princess on the ground in front of the hive! It looked a bit emaciated, minus a...