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Like most places its been a very hot day today. Having not seen it before is this bearding? and do I need to do anything? (Sorry haveing trouble attaching the photo)

Thank you for that. Honey stores for all three colonies over the last week or so have not increased. We are putting this down to indifferent weather combined with a reduced flow. Lots of activity to stand still. We are not anticipating any harvest this year just hoping the bees can winter...

Newbies - had bees since May 2017. We have just completed an inspection this afternoon of our two hives and one nuc. One of the hive brood boxes and the Nuc in were very much as expected - frames with honey stores, pollen and brood in various stages. Just as all the books describe. The brood...

Yes to be honest if I had not seen the swarm, I am not sure I would have picked up the bee numbers had significantly changed. I would have wondered though why they where a bit grumpy! There is a lot more to this Beekeeping than you think. You just start to think you have a grasp / understanding...

Things have moved on.............................. Yesterday went for my routine evening check down the allotment to talk to the plants and check the bees and found a swarm of bees in the grass a few yards away from the hive. The queen is clipped so was never going to get far. We managed to...

They have 8 frames in the brood box

The hive has a queen excluder and the she was spotted in the brood box during both the recent inspections. We do have a crown board on top of the super and both holes have bee escapes fitted.

Lots of room - 3 foundation frames in the brood box - untouched. 1 Super with 5 frames being worked and 7 frames spare.

Can anyone advise why bees should build and seal Queen Cells and then break them down again? At the weekend we carried out a regular inspection of our hive and found three sealed Queen Cells, which set our alarm bells ringing. Being newbies of six weeks we made contact with our Mentor who...