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Make a honey box from honey half filled frames an put the over the excluder. Then give a new brood box with foundations. How ever you will need new brood combs. It is normal beekeeping that you lift honey frames over the excluder. Bees will fill them more and cap the combs. Then extract. To...

You just put the queen into the hive

Even calm bees start to sting in dark. Yes.. I know. I have never searched a queen in darkness.

Well, I did not read very well the start. Many fold story. So you had a queenless colony, and you put there a new queen. Why to worry about worker layers? That queen cell with old royal jelly? The queen stopped laying 3 weeks ago. There should not be any more active queen cells. They may...

I can only quess. Your question at the beginning gives quite good picture about your queen handling skills.

Buy a mated queen. Perhaps I already said it. Why it is so difficult.

You do not know, what bees you shake, but you can believe (what ever).

Pumpkin has much nectar in a flower , but flowers are not many. There are other bee plants outside the pumpkin field too. There are other hives too on the area. First I would look the surrounding, how much beeplants already have bees per square meter. One bee per 10 square meter One bee...

Why cant you buy a laying queen? When you rear a new queen and it starts to lay, it takes 3 weeks. At same time a laying queen makes one round new bees.

In Siberia varroa and European bee has been together 100 years . There is an odd resistance in bees, but the style is very strange. It can be seen in US Russian bee. Mite resistance of Russian bees cannot be transfered in crossing to another bee races.

Be carefull. It might be Jesus child.

The queen layed last time 21 days ago, because all worker cells have emerged. Of course no queen will emerge from those strange queen cells. There is a virus disease, which makes queen cells very long.

Layen hive id very common is the Eastern Europe. What id necessary, the queen cannot be s good layer. Otherwise it fills the hive with brood in a week.

Or it jumps to flower, and from flower onto to snother bees.

Start to make padgen system. And do AS with foundations.

If play cups are empty, it means nothing. When they have eggs, it means swarming. You just happened to inspect that day the hive. 3 days later eggs are larvae.

Life will teach...

Such fairytale: "Natural bees do not have diseases or varroa mites... " ... Honeybee diseases existed before a human started to walk on globe. A human is not only enemy of the bees. Even another bee nests attack on each other and try to rob each others stores. When a colony produces 2...

It is some kind of cat mint

This plant is good to bumbblebees and nice to look.