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I had two small colonies and felt they’d do better as one larger colony. It helped that one colony was queenless after many and varied attempts to requeen. Followed the newspaper route, queenright on bottom, newspaper with holes, q. excluder on top then the queenless colony. Everyone said they...

I have a vicious colony which I have tried to requeen several times unsuccessfully . I have been told that petrol works best. What is the best method and can I reuse the frames, etc?

Hi all, I have had bees for almost two years so very much a novice. I live in Shropshire and keep my hives at the back of the garden. So much to learn. Loads of oil seed rape surround me so my bees are madly foraging at the moment. I understand it is hard to remove osr honey from frames so any...