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I have read or been told that the time to requeen is Autumn, however this strikes me as odd as you must then overwinter a new queen. Why not requeen in March/April and give the new queen the best months to get established.

At least ten, capped queen cells however bees did not swarm, next inspection queen cells gone. I am wondering what happened, some nice days where they could have swarmed, many bad wet cold days.

Does it always mean that if there is no brood and no eggs that the hive is queen less, do they ever just have a break from laying. Also if they have become queen less why did they not make an emergency queen while they still had eggs? The hive in question has good numbers of bees and is making...

Hello all. I recently found several queen cell elongated so I moved the queen out, destroyed all but two and waited. The split is good and lots of brood. The queen cells can no longer be seen, I went back into the hive to see the empty queen cells after they had emerged but could not find any...

Hello, In my last two inspection of my now 3 hives I have noticed a lot of bees in each, a lot of brood however no stores of honey or nectar. It seems to me that all they are gathering is going to feed brood. Would this be correct? The spring here in France has been dreadful, as I believe it has...

Happy Christmas, snowing here in France so snow on Christmas Day. Some bee keepers put their supers under the main brood chamber not on top, they say that in passing through the super they deposit more honey, is there any good arguments for above or under? Also if when dribbling Oxalic acid you...

Hello forum I have been keeping bees for 3 years now and started by attending a course in the UK. Competent at the regular tasks however I would say I am not a successful bee keeper. For example no honey in the supers this year, I do not take any from the brood box. I tried very hard this year...

Last year I bought a top bar hive, talked into it by a contact. He failed to tell me that they do not automatically follow the bars, and yes I now have a hive full on inaccessible diagonal combs:paparazzi: So why am I sharing this with the whole world, simply because I do not know what to do...