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I am using maismore poly hives and all measure 500x500 mm i was using the plastic Q excluders last couple of years , but now want to go with the metal wire type.Not punched ones. Nearly all the framed ones are for 460x460 and do not fit to the edge of the box. I can get wire only to fit ,but...

Due to the very poor weather we are having here in lancashire yesterday was the first day i have been able to inspect my hives for 8 days. I have one hive that has been building up nicely with a this years postal mated Queen .SB national and she had run out of room to lay ,I did not think there...

I think i may have made a very big mistake with being in too much of a rush. I have a Q- hive that i know is a definate. Today i united via the newspaper method with a spare laying older queen that i had in a 6 frame nuc with eggs and some cap brood. However in the Q- hive i did see a lot of...

A first for me,i have made up a nuc with two frames of capped brood bothe from seperate hives , one of pollon two of foundation one drawn frame and one of stores . This was made up 48 hours before i introduced a postal mated Queen in a push in cage.I do not want to disturb them now for a few...

Inspected a DB hive 4 days ago and was confronted with several Q Cells ,Not expecting to see this and not having any equipment with me it was a bit of a Ham Fisted attempt to find the Queen and Nuc her,This i did but due to another (non bee related) issue i was very hasty in checking and...

I am in the process of purchasing a colony with Queen,brood etc they are presently in a national cedar hive. I will be re housing them in a poly brood box and the new site will be aprox three to four miles from their original site.I know to wait for a warm day and close em up or branches in...

I think i know what the answer is and what to do about it but i thought i would ask for advice first.I only have three polly nationals ,all DB one is building up nicely with three frames of capped brood and the bees very busy.This queen is in her third season. Of the other two hives. One there...

I have several brood frames from last season that were partially robbed out .They were new frames and foundation and still contain some honey .The robbers were from my apiary .Can i use theese frames again this season .

Newbie question ,what would you do in theese circumstances. Last year i had way more colonies than i could cope with and due to my limited knowledge it was mayhem. Anyway my plans for next year 2023 are to only keep three hives and concentrate more on learning rather than honey production. So...

I recently purchased a Mated Q online ,but unfortunatly for some reason the DB hive is now Q less. I gave them a frame of eggs lava etc 5 days ago as a test frame and they started making Q Cells and are now capping several. OK. I am not going to purchasing another Queen and am not going to...

On last inspection 6 days ago one of my DB hives seemed Q-,no eggs lava or brood, So i gave em a frame of capped brood and lava from my best hive .White Q and laying well. Today as expected i see they have made several Q Cells several capped. Im not sure if i should just let em get on with it...

Last week i became suspicious one of my hives (the Q)has started laying drone brood and today i found several frames with drone combe only and what few eggs i could see were singles so i asume she is a drone layer and need to sort this out. I am thinking of buying in a mated Q . so am i right...

Beekeeping Mathematics, Bee Math, Michael Bush I hope it is ok to post this page link on here. I find this condensed and may be helpfull to others on here. Thank you.

I have a DB hive with a last years laying Q and laying well but not very full .I also have a large swarm i collected five days ago that is situated in a paynes nuc enlarged .plus extension making it 8 over 8 about 20 foot away and full, I have not seen the q as yet in the swarm ,But i will go...

just checked a DB poly hive with 3 supers on after i did not see any activity on the entrance.While the rest of the hives were all busy. This hive was inspected 4 days previously and was very busy and going wellThey had room and space in the supers and with my limited knowledge no sighn of...

I think i have made ham fisted manipulation in haste. I checked on of my DB colonys today and found quite a lot of cups some charged and two nicely formed Q cells. No sighn of Q or eggs but some lava several days old and the bees were not very happy when i inspected them. So i am asuming some...

Being a newbie i was wondering what the difference (apart from the obvious )is regarding the Horizontally wired frames and the Diagonaly wired ones. Thank you.

Just a quick question. Two days ago i destryed one of my hives when they were showing sighns of Paralysis CBPV ,I posted my findings and why i decided to take this action. I am not wanting to start the post again so i just want to know if the honey that i took from the supers from this...

Advice re swarming please. I discovered yesterday that one of my DB poly hives is extreemly full and i found two play cups on the bottom of the frame in the top box . One empty and one with a small ammount of jelly.,Unfortunatly i destroyed this one while looking into it.I removed two frames of...

Just a quick question from a novice. i have five poly hives all DB all have OMFs and inspection trays always left in and extra poly insulation in winter . I weigh them every two /three weeks and since october the weight has only fluctuated very slightly. I weighed them yesterday while vaping and...