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    Difficulty drawing foundationless comb

    Hello. I'm using foundationless frames in my supers. I have some that were partially drawn last year and I added them back on a double brood colony a week ago. There is a strong flow on and I thought they'd be nicely drawn when I checked yesterday. However, the bees had filled emerged areas of...
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    dropped pollen

    I have my varroa inspection boards in most the time, at a low position, so I can get some idea of what's going on without opening up the hive. At times like now when the bees are bringing in a lot of pollen, I see a large number of dropped loads on the board. I'm wondering if walking on the mesh...
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    webinars

    Sorry if this is posted somewhere else that I didn't spot. I'm not currently a member of BIBBA but they have a series of webinars which it seems that anyone can register to view. https://bibba.com/webinars/ You can either watch live, or watch the video afterwards. I found the first one useful...
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    need for super when uniting

    I've read lots of information about uniting colonies using the newspaper method. However, I haven't found anything about the need for a super containing stores for the bees above the paper. If the brood box has hardly any stores, wouldn't they need a separate food supply to keep them going while...
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    new foragers after split

    I split my hive last week and I only have one site so I knew the foragers from the new hive would return to the hive in the original position (which can't be moved). I shook in extra frames of bees to help make up for this, and gave them syrup in addition to the frames of stores. Until...
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    ongoing varroa fall

    Another newbie question... On 29 Aug I put in a tray of Apiguard. Just a few dry crystals were left after a fortnight and I put a second tray in. I removed that 17 Oct and there was still some gel left, despite me stirring it a few times as per the instructions. In the time the Apiguard was in...
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    lots(?) of pollen on inspection board

    Back when I had the inspection board in for varroa monitoring, I noticed there was what seemed like a lot of pollen on it, at the entrance end. I made the mesh floor from a mesh inner cover that I'd been given so I'm wondering if that mesh is unsuitable and somehow causing the bees to lose their...
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    uncapped winter stores

    Everything I read about winter preparation refers to weights or numbers of frames of honey that are needed, and to provide syrup if a hive's stores don't meet this requirement. I've provided a lot of syrup for the last month so the bees now have plenty of that in combs, but I've been advised...
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