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Has anyone used these entrance blocks from T's and any useful tips or comments. The long slotted entrance seems very narrow to me.

ok two hives together in my very small apiary, large colony obtained as a nucleus some weeks ago and hived with a miller feeder and some inverted commercial bee food given to me by the seller. second hive weak swarm capture new mated queen just introduced, placed a 4 pint rapid feeder on the...

So, normally my main hive has reasonable activity at the entrance with bees coming and going in a sedate manner. About every two and a half to three weeks they seem to go a little mad and loads start buzzing around outside the entrance for about a couple of hours then everything calms down and...

Where are my manners, been on here a while now with no introduction....sorry. went on an "Introduction to Beekeeping"course last year, completely hooked from the word go. Completed the theory course now on the practical course run by local BKA. Hived two collected swarms, first was a disaster...

Thanks for all your help and advice so far. Another simple question, if you use a dummy board in a hive where do you position it, would you load frames from the back to the front where the entrance is and finish with the dummy board so that the big gap is nearest the entrance, or start at the...

I hived a swarm about 5 weeks ago, no eggs, brood or evidence of a queen, this is my only colony as I'm a new starter, does anyone have a spare mated queen?

This is I'm sure a simple question which hopefully will elicit a simple answer. I hived a caught swarm about 5 weeks ago, today no evidence of BIAS, I can't see any eggs but I have trouble seeing them anyway. As you're probably aware I'm new to beekeeping! I have no access to any frames with...

A quick question, hived a swarm in a nuc earlier in the week have decided to move to a Nat Hive as I'm away fro 4 days next week to be on the safe side and ensure they asre settled in before I go and confident they will have enough space. I'm probably being over cautious but I'd hate to have...

I collected a swarm 10 days ago but due to inexperience may have missed the queen. I added a rapid feeder after 3 days and removed the Qex from the bottom of the brood box and left them until today. There are quite a lot of bees taking syrup but look less than originally hived. There is no...

Hi all a quick question, i used a poly nuc to capture a small swarm yesterday and hived it on my allotment. I then set up the same nuc as a bait box approx 100yards away on a friends allotment, would the swarm bees be attracted to the poly nuc or should they stay in the actual hive. Hope this...