I've been beekeeping for 7 years and still the bees seem to make me struggle to deal with them. I'm sure they lull me into a sense of security then when I think I've cracked this beekeeping lark they throw a spanner in the works..:hairpull::hairpull:
This is my story about introducing my queen bees. 1 of my hives went aggressive last year just before winter. So got it through winter. Ordered 2 queens this spring. Put nasty queen in nuc put nice queen in another nuc put new queens in the big hives. The bees seemed to accept the new...