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"On Thursday 22nd June a small primary nest of Asian hornets was reported to the NBU. A National Bee Unit Inspector investigated the report and collected samples which have been sent for analysis by scientists. Traps have been set for hornets returning to the nest site, and follow up activities...

I've just looked at my hives and there are thousands of bees flying and on the outside of the hive. What should I do? We had a couple of sealed queen cells when inspecting on Tuesday and assumed we'd already missed them swarming.

I just did my first inspection of the year and found the queen and then 6 uncapped QC and 1 capped. 5 of the QC were around the edges of frames but the capped one was more in the middle. Wasn't sure if this was likely to be a swarm or supercedure and if swarm I was very lucky that the queen...

I completed 6 weeks of Apiguard treatment on 28th Sept but there was still quite a lot left crystalised in the tray. I spread that over the top bars as suggested on here. I put a varroa board under the hive on Monday and after 2 days I can count 100+ dropped mites. From what I've searched and...

I added Apiguard on 19th August and after 2 weeks about a third was left and looked quite crystallised. I scraped this onto the second treatment and left that till today but there's still a lot left and it all looks crystallised (photo attached). Is this common? During the treatment I left...