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I put up a pair of old frames on a rope (eventually) a number bees marched on looked around and marched off again! I set up a bait hive and a few bees went in and out but none settled. The bees are still there, looks less that at the start, they are on the main trunk and the owner not...

Thanks a different version of an earlier suggestion, worth a go.

You are right I was able to dislodge them by shaking the branch with a long implement and then within minutes they were back again, three times. A few have shown interest in the bait hive but only a few. They are still on the tree, no comb on the branch when shaken off.

Thanks for all those suggestions, will try the bait hive first… if they are still there.

They are still there, unfortunately they are on the top branch of the tree,I had said to the owner they would probably move on but they haven’t as yet.

Hello, I got called to a swarm in a neighbouring village, the bees, possibly a cast swarm, has settled in a cherry tree about 25 feet up, is there a method of collecting them or moving them on that doesn’t involve me up a ladder 25 up!? They have been there now three days .

I can live with their idiosyncrasies, all adds to the interest, my other hives seem to be running to the script, I just want to be sure that I am not doing something that is detrimental to their life! thanks for the replies.

Thanks , glad they have a plan, not so sure I have!

Hello, I have a hive that last year that swarmed and made a new queen in time for the winter, although only five seems of bees went through the winter heavily insulated and fed. On first late spring inspection , it had already produced a new queen, no eggs so left it to settle for four weeks, on...

Hi ,Dani I have re-shook bees in as described and have moved the nuc, can I just ask should the entrance be open or closed, it is a revolving entrance with a QX /open/ ventilation,settings? thanks again

Thanks will do that although that is what I did on transferring the brood frames over, except this time I will move the Nuc elsewhere. Thanks again.

Hello again, I am attempting to introduce a new queen from a local supplier. I set up a nuc one day prior to collecting the queen with two sealed brood and one stores in a five frame nuc. Before putting the queen in two days ago I checked for any queen cells, there were none. I put the queen in...

Thanks Hemo, the queen cells were just about to be capped,there were two but one got damaged and I left only one. Will check end of next week. With the vast number of bees present I don’t thing they have swarmed. Thanks

Thanks will do.

Update:- thanks Enrico, adapted your suggestion….with a little help from my friends (experienced beekeepers) we took the hive apart. To my amazement there where some eggs and brood and two charged Q cells. We took a brood box full of stores off and it is at the top of the hive over a crown board...

Thanks for the advice will have another go on Wednesday putting a test frame the upper brood box and see what a few days brings. Thanks

Thanks, but actually that was what I was trying to do when it was impossible to see anymore due to being covered with bees, do I have just persevere with the bees and try and get a frame in? Will that calm them down if they rear a queen? thanks

Hello, I currently have five BS hives at the bottom of my garden, all but one have new queens and are generally well behaved and working well…..the fifth one I believe may be queenless as the last inspection seven days ago there was no sealed brood, eggs or larvae. I was considering a test frame...

I have five cherry and five apple trees within 200yards of the hives, they both are in flower at the moment and both have a reasonable amount of bees on them, there is a field of OSR nearby but the dandelion and fruit trees seem to be well visited. Could make for interesting honey!

Grubs- the short legless larva of insects.