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Hi there, I seem to have had light wax moth infestation on some of my stored frames. There seems to be very little damage, and I assume as these are not in use they struggled to survive. As I believe they need proteins and such provided by the absent bees. There is no sign of larva or adults...

Sorry if you have already commented on this bee, but some members have suggested this bee may have nosema, at the very least it has some sort of ailment/parasite. I originally mistook it for a queen with its elongated abdomen and larger size than the other workers. Now looking back at it I see...

I just United a now queenless colony (she was only a virgin and not viable) with a queen right colony, using the newspaper method of separating the two brood boxes. I smoked them plenty too. I noticed there was some fighting at the entrance of the recipient hive, ( I assume flying bees from the...

This bee was found with it's abdomen in the cell. Although not as obvious as other queens I have found, but could this be a virgin emergency queen cell queen? I am trying to unite two colonies so knowing I've got her will be a weight off my mind. The abodnen is not as elongated or tapered as I'm...

Hello there I am in need of some sound advice. I have had a right ball ache of a year with beekeeping (this is my 2nd year). My colony split in two with a swarm and a second cast swarm which I recovered. I was left with 2 colonies, the original with new cast queen and a swarm with an original...

Has anyone had any success using sugar spray over smoke?

Last week there were only a few eggs in the hive some larva and some capped brood. I have checked this week and there is virtually no brood at all. This is a new queen which I bought and re-queened a swarm with. She which was laying well. I have seen her and she seems fine, looks healthy. Today...

My newly mated mail order queen has been in situ for 1 month now, she is laying, but perhaps not as well as I'd have hoped, there also currently seem to be a lack of the larva stage, though there is both capped brood and eggs, what could the explanation for this be?

My colony this year has had a primary swarm which went, and now a cast swarm, the bees have been fairly aggressive, up until this point, but not unmanageable, I wouldn't say enjoyable though. During these swarming months however they have become very aggressive, and a right pain to work with...

I had a swarm with my original queen about 3 weeks ago. They couldn't be recovered as they went without a trace. I had thinned out the queen cells to just 2, hoping they would make themselves queen right. When removing the queen cells I noticed a queen had emerged from the split queen cell so...

My old queen has swarmed, and my hive is currently has no laying queen, and no eggs, some capped brood and drones yet to emerge. I had 7 sealed queen cells which I have thinned to two. I kept the queen cells to try and establish what stage the queens were at. Whilst inspecting one I realised...

I inspected my hive today after a longer than intended interval of 20 days. In that time the bees had been super productive, they looked like they were preparing for swarming, there were tonnes of drone cells on one of the superframes, and I can only assume queen cells between the brood frames...

So today my bees were hanging around the front and back of the hive, there were dead bees all over the floor and many looking lazy on the ground. They are no where near in a position to swarm, what could be an explanation for this behaviour? Robbing?

I just did an inspection and there were some empty cells which the walls of which looked almost zig-zagged in nature. Has anyone got any idea what this is, is it something to be concerned about?

Just did an inspection and it seems around 5 or so cells have been uncapped prematurely, and the white underdeveloped bee is exposed. From research this is likely caused by wax moth larvae, although I didn't see any present. There seems to have been loads of healthy brood hatch out is this an...

What do people generally feed a new swarm? Candipoline or sugar syrup?

Hello all, My colony looks on the brink of collapse. One thing I noticed is there seems to be very little pollen stores within the hive. If my colony is to survive I need to get the brood restarted quick. I have as some have suggested ordered some Candipoline, but it won't arrive until the 1st...

Hello I was wondering if anyone could give me some advise. I got my bee colony last June from a swarm collector, as such I do not know the age of my queen. Today I conducted my first inspection of the year. My bees have survived the winter but do not look in a good way. There is no capped...