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i Found a marked queen and maybe 20 worker bees with her on the outside of the brood box. When I opened the brood box there were sealed swarm cells ( I found about 8-10) . I did the following: 1)put the queen in a clip in my pocket. 2)put new brood box on original site 3)went through original...

One of my three hives has been extremely aggressive this year. (It wasn't last year - she was a new queen and she was calm ). This year they have been following ( on one occasion 150 m) and stinging people that are 40 + feet from the hives. By July inspecting was almost impossible as they...

I did a shook swarm an a strong colony 30/3. I checked 7/4 and we had eggs and larvae ( earliest it could emerge 21/4 ). On 7/5 I had a swarm. I inspected yesterday and there was a single QC ( now empty) no egg/larvae and I did not see a queen. My question is why did they swarm ? They had...

I have just done my first detailed inspection of the year. One of my hives has plenty of BAS BUT also loads of capped drone cells. I noticed a couple of workers with deformed wings and when I uncapped a section of the drone cells there was lots of varroa. I treated in the Autumn with the...

I got stung on my hand today, on the base of the thumb on the palm side. The reaction is quite sever - my whole hand is swollen, red and painful as far as four inches up my wrist. This selling developed over a couple of hours. It is the most sever reaction that I have ever had. Is this likely...

I split my hive at the beginning of May. In effect I performed an AS but there were no QC present. I figured that the hive with all of the brood ( except for the one frame ) would build emergency QC and that the queen would emerge last Sunday/ Monday- -and I just left them alone . This hive...

Hi . I put a test frame from another hive in as I suspected it was queen-less ( 10/7) . A week later they had drawn an emergency QC. I left them to it and checked 10 days ago -= nothing . But then I saw loads of pollen going in and hope...... Just checked and a worker had been laying drone ( bit...

Planning to inspect tomorrow .i have 3 hives - one enormous colony one doing ok colony and one small and struggling colony ) I suspect that I will find the enormous colony queenless tomorrow ( think that I killed her a few weeks ago - when she was a virgin and her mother before that - long...

On Thursday I combined two hives (previously split : one hive queen less and the other with a new queen laying well) All is well but it is quite a tower of boxes, a brood box deep at the bottom with QE then two shallows and a deep on top . I need to use the deep as a brood box for a swarm but...

Did a pagden AS on 17/5 Did the extension bit ( moving hive with QCS ) yesterday ON DAY 8 !! ( did this as I had Thursday in my head instead of Tuesday - they both start with T) Today hive with QCS swarmed ( mistake 1 = I missed some QC) They settles on a nice low branch of tree in TWO clusters...

Inspected my second colony on Tuesday and found queen charged and capped queen cells. Did the pagden AS ( moved BB to one side and destroyed all but one uncapped QC- then put my queen on a frame of capped brood , one full frame of stores and fresh frames of foundation on the original site )...

Hi - My first ever question. I inspected my two hives today for the first time in 12 days ( weather having been so poor) My largest hive had a green marked , clipped queen- last seen three weeks ago. At the last inspection they were quite short-tempered and the brood body was quite full ( 7...