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Never tried this but can you swap positions of strong and weaker nucs or hives to boost numbers and make them stronger to even them out a bit wasn't sure if it was a safe method anybody uses?

Morning, Say if you removed your queen from the hive how long would it take the bees to make a queen cell and how long should you wait before checking for queen cells?

In my area there is a huge flow on supers are full and brood boxes are full of honey and nowhere much for queen to lay. I wanted to make some splits as one hive has made queen cells and they are both so packed with bees now they have become hard to work on for me. Seems like all of a sudden the...

Good afternoon, I am after some advice I have a packed Nuc which is 7 frames that has started swarmy behaviour making queen cups and lots of bees hanging around outside the entrance due to being so packed inside. I don't have room for another full hive yet that's my winter job to re landscape...

Good afternoon, So I split earlier this year as hive was packed and had queen cells, now all queens are laying it seems the biggest and most prolific queen ended up in a nuc which I had planned on moving on and ideally I want the best queen in the hive. How easy would it be to switch queens or...

Good evening I see a lot of people saying don't make your own hive or boxes because seconds equipment can picked up so cheap it's not worth it, so if this is indeed true where should I be looking for these bargain bee boxes?

Good morning I am only a 2nd year beekeeper and have only handled my bees so have nothing to compare them too. They don't mind me being near the hives or my dog walking up near them which I like, but they seem to have started to dislike inspections and have noticed they seem a little more...

A friend of mine made me a 8 frame National hive, I collected today but I've just noticed he made bee space gaps between the frame edges either side they are the same spacing as the gaps between the frames is this going to cause any potential issues?

Good afternoon, So I have two nucs made up to which were done to stop further swarming from the hive, which sort of swarmed once with original queen who was found in a very small cluster under the hive, she's in a nuc with only two frames of bees added and looks to be doing fine. The hive was...

Good evening, I have a few quick questions I would like to hear some opinions on if I may. Would you feed a newly split nuc kept near same location to parent hive that has most likely lost most of it's current foragers back to main hive? is 3 frames with plenty of bees, eggs, brood and stores...