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I would say 5 weeks since I saw capped cell's and removed the original queen, went back a week later to knock any new queen cell's down, and the new Queen was already there then, so she has been about for 4 weeks or so. Haven't saw her since then though lol.

Oh, really? I thought after a month or so, the chances of her mating successfully were pretty slim.

I'm in the same boat. Over a month and no brood to be seen. Put a frame of egg's in today, so we'll see in a few day's what they think of that. If they draw queen cell's I'm gonna unite them with a small queen-right colony using the newspaper method. that should be fine, right?

We have a local facebook page round my way. Once the season kicks in, lots of swarms are always on there looking for homes (y)

I was just out in the garden, enjoying the sun. Noticed a few wasp's about. Got a couple of nuc's going in polly hives, lifted the top cover off the feeder and saw a wasp through the clear plastic bit. He got jumped by a crew of bee's pretty quick. First time I've seen them mob a wasp like that.

They were airborne for about 5 minutes, then clustered on a tree about 15 feet away. As soon as I put em in the nuc, my GF said they were all flying back to the hive, but I thought she was just being stupid lol. Do you think the queen just didn't leave the hive in the first place? Or could it...

The queen stayed in this hive. Might have seen the start of 1 queen cell earlier. Will have another look tomorrow.

Just don't understand why they all swarmed out, only to go back to where they came from. Is this a thing? Do they practice swarming? There were no swarm cells or cup's in the brood at last inspection, maybe what looks like the start of one today though.

Yes mesh floor. I have a brood box pretty full of brood and bee's but there is room to lay, one super they have drawn out and are rapidly filling, and another super they have just started drawing after adding this past week. The supers are not as busy as the brood box though. Maybe move the...

Hi, I've got a hive set up in my garden. Woke up to a cloud of bee's swarming around. They grouped up on a near by tree. So I put them in a nuc box I had lying around. Had a quick glance inside my hive and it was almost empty (both supers empty and a pretty quiet brood box) so took it they had...

I'm sure Becky's got Italian Buckfast's and Romanian's on the site.

Thank you all.

Hey, how we all doing? I'm pretty new to all this so thought this might be the place to come and do some reading. I've got a nuc off a local guy a few weeks ago, everything seems to be going smoothly. They like the new home and are building it out quick. I'm normally pretty quiet but expect to...