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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Hello, on inspection three weeks ago I discover an open queen cell, believing that this may be a superceedure that had taken place I left it until last weekend to check if the queen had mated and laying eggs, I did see eggs, looked like one per cell but very sporadically spread around. On...

Hello, I have completed my first twelve months of bee keeping, I took three hives through the winter. My question is about one hive in particular, it was was fine about 5weeks ago when I inspected it, since then I have only been able to get in the brood box once because of the amount of bees...

Hello, I have had one of my hives that have had some queen issues, over the past two months there thave been no eggs no grubs and no more sightings of a queen. I did two test frames and no queen cells were made, up until last week there were still no eggs etc. I united the colony with my next...