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I topped up the fondant today and as usual found a few dead bees on the top, nothing unusual however on closer inspection a number of them have been decapitated, same way wasps do this in late summer. However its February. Any suggestions before I go in deep?

I decided to experiment with a carniolan queen this year, so a nuc set up using a few frames brood & food from my mega colony & extra frames to make up to 6 in total. Left overnight to ensure a state of queenlessness before installing said (mated) queen. Several days later I had a peek, bees...

One of my hives is on double brood to which I added a super a few weeks ago. On checking the hive the super is 3/4 full and capped and it's only early May. I've added another super but left the full one as unsure if I should be harvesting this time of year?

I have a united hive consisting two broods and two supers. one super is almost empty and i will remove this but the other is full and i plan to leave as food stores for them. Ive heard conflicting advice over where to place this super - under or above the brood?

Last week I found my clipped queen on the ground outside the hive. I have done an AS but I couldn't move the hive very far from the original site owing to a mole problem (now fixed). 1 week later there are more swarm cells - 8 in total and 5 of these were on the frame. They are on 8 brood...

My mentor is currently away (just when i need him!) so...... AS done few weeks ago, new queen seen last week.This morning a neighbour alerted me to a swarm on a tree next to my apiary. Tried without luck to catch it, but thought i better check my hives. Parent hive all is well, daughter hive...

Please comment - I wasn't sure if I was seeing Queen cells when checking yesterday and now that Im reviewing these pics I think there are.... Nuc installed 4 weeks ago. Built up steadily by adding frames gradually, I added the final 10th & 11th frame yesterday.

I transferred my nuc 10 days ago, provided 2 extra frames and syrup feed in a frame feeder. I did my first check yesterday and all seems good inside, the 2 frames I put in have been drawn out, small crop of drone cells and queen busy, but I was alarmed to see 70 (I counted) dead bees on the...

After installing my nucleus I placed a frame feeder in my brood box with 1:1 syrup. The feeding frame is slightly wider than my Hoffman frames that has meant I can't fit my last frame and has left a gap. Ive left it as it is as didn't want to leave them with nothing but wonder if I ought to get...