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Hi everyone Should be 2 pictures attached showing a bee found outside the hive this morning, together with a worker. Am I right to think it a queen? (Forgive my ignorance). We don't think its our queen as she was marked. Any idea what's happened? We haven't done a full inspection since...

Hi everyone Making an attempt on the 'daft questions' title... We have bought a perspex crown board, which comes with only one bee escape hole, whereas the standard wooden crown board has 2. When using a contact feeder, which covers this hole, does that make a problem with ventilation? should we...

Thanks everyone for your comments on my last thread. Been reading some of the other threads and would like to ask: lots of people saying don't feed too early, you should be raising bees not making stores. How do you judge this? My bees had lots of room and lots of flowers but no stores at all...

Hi everyone, would appreciate some advice. Started with a 5 frame nuc in mid-June, gave them some syrup and they've been doing really well. We added a second brood box in middle of July as the first was getting full. They now have 2 FULL frames of brood in the top box and have drawn out most of...

Looking for a nuc which I can collect within a 2h radius of Carlisle