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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.

Thanks for that I have now done a split. regards

Hello, doing my inspection today one hive that has a super on it, on checking the brood box there is good brood pattern, and grubs. There were on the very top of two frames two sealed queen cells on one and two sealed and one not yet sealed cells on the other. Last inspected seven days ago. The...

Thanks for the replies, I have a moss filled water container near the hives and some bees use it but not in the numbers that go to the leaking barrel! Thanks again

Hi, temp about 9 degrees today, I have four hives in an annexe garden at the bottom of my garden. The last few days there has been 50+ bees at a leaky water barrel constantly, today they are still there flying back to hives but at my back door where I was washing the paving there are 100+ bees...

Thanks for your replies, will take advice on board.

Didnt answer all the questions, 1st August there was a small patch of sealed brood no eggs or larvae.