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  1. J

    First inspection of the year.

    A gorgeous day here in Cornwall, bees active so thought I'd check the hive. This winter I left a super half filled with honey on. (I don't normally but it was a warm autumn and the bees had filled it after I extracted and I didn't have the heart to take it away) Opened the hive with difficulty...
  2. J

    2 queens. Help please!

    I could do with some expertise please. Around mid July I found a lovely Queen cell in my hive. My original red spot queen had been laying but the brood pattern was patchy and there was a lot of drone brood. I left them to their devices for 3 weeks and checked in and there was a lovely new Queen...
  3. J

    Advice when treating for varroa

    Despite an autumn treatment last year with Amitraz my hive has varroa and DWV. 😔 I'm treating now with Apilife Var and have removed supers but after waiting ages for the temp to be high enough it's now sunny and really hot. I'm worried the bees will have trouble regulating the temp of the brood...
  4. J

    Can queens climb through queen excluders?

    So, 3rd year beekeeper here, still feel very new and need some advice. Haven't checked my hive for 3 weeks - frosts and then a hospital stay unfortunately meant no inspecting. Got back and had a look before the Bank Holiday storm and had a shock. The brood box was low on bees and the super was...
  5. J

    Active and very buzzy bees

    Morning! It's been wet, windy and cold here in Kernow for the last few days but today is gorgeously sunny. My beehive has gone crazy, the bees are buzzing loudly around the hive, spilling out the front door and crawling up the hive to sit on the roof. Several are sitting on nearby shrubs and...
  6. J

    Uncapped honey

    I have 1 hive in my garden and am not sure what to do with the honey in the super. I would say about half of it is capped and half isn't. The bees have just started storing honey/nectar in the brood box so I was going to extract from the super and feed them but the frames seem to be partly...
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