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    Moving from brood and a half to double brood

    Thank you both for your replies, I will nadir shortly and take your advice regarding adding the new BB above the current one.
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    Moving from brood and a half to double brood

    Hi, I have a couple of hives on brood and a half, and I would like to move them to double brood. I am guessing that this is best done next spring once the bees start flying again. How is this best done, do I... 1. Add a brood box of foundation below the brood and a half and move the QE below...
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    Needing to move and split a problematic colony

    Just an update for everyone who has been kind enough to provide advice. On Saturday we moved the problem hive's brood box and a super to a new location and provided a new broodbox on the original site with a frame of stores and a frame with BIAS. This left us with the nurse bees and queen in a...
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    Leaf blower for bees?

    I have seen a leaf blower used, and it doesn't seem the kindest method of clearing bees. It might take longer, but brushing frames one by one and placing a cleared frame in a spare super or in large bag or box, seems to be a far gentler way to harvest the honey.
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    Needing to move and split a problematic colony

    Thanks Chris, that was pretty much the plan, but it is good to know this is what others would do in the same situation.
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    Needing to move and split a problematic colony

    I will do this as I have the equipment and it won't put our smaller colony at risk, as my first idea would have. If frame of BIAS is for them to raise a new queen, is that possible as the comb/foundation will not necessarily have pollen and stores. I can get some frames of pollen and stores...
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    Needing to move and split a problematic colony

    Thank you that was the answer I was looking for, I won't do that then. I will probably move the hive, maybe 30m, leave a box for the fliers to go back to, when the original hive looks depleted of fliers, go and find the queen and dispatch her and then recombine the colony - is that a better...
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    Needing to move and split a problematic colony

    There has bene a bit of a flow but the weather is so awful, there is rarely two good foraging days in a row.
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    Needing to move and split a problematic colony

    We have 7 colonies split across 2 apiaries, 6 of them are very pleasant to handle but one is awful. None of the other colonies are bouncing off your veil and following you away from the hive, but this one is and it has been happening for some weeks. It has now got to the point that hoping it was...
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    Flow Hives

    Hi, Does anybody have any experience of flow hives? We have been asked to help set one up for a new beekeeper, I haven't seen it yet, but looking at the information that I can see online I still have a not of questions. 1. It appears that the brood box is langstroth size, so national frames...
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    Stopping a colony from swarming

    It is nearly a year old, this is will be the second summer
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    Stopping a colony from swarming

    Thank you for the reply. We have already had reports of people seeing swarms and seeing queen cells being raised, and maybe I am being overly anxious about this colony swarming. An additional (third) brood box is certainly the easiest option. You make a good point and I understand what you...
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    Stopping a colony from swarming

    I will be away with work for a couple of weeks shortly and I don't want to leave my partner with a possible swarming issue, so the Demaree seems to be a good plan of action if they have not raised any queen cells by this weekend. If they have then we can choose between that and a Pagden...
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    Stopping a colony from swarming

    We inspected our hives last weekend and found that one colony which is on double brood was jam packed with bees, and although we could not see any queen cells or cups there was a lot of drone brood dotted about and on an entire side of one frame. We added some supers to give them additional...
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    Is Nosema more of a problem this year?

    We had Kingspan insulation around the hives and in the roof from the point where there was frost on the ground in December. At the end of February we had to move all of the hives to a new apiary and once repositioned it looked like the worst of the cold weather had past, so we didn't put the...
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    Is Nosema more of a problem this year?

    Dani, Thank you for your reply, I'll read through the links.
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    Is Nosema more of a problem this year?

    We have lost 2 out of 7 colonies to what appears to be Nosema this year. Certainly the tell tale signs of Nosema are on the frames and there was plenty of stores, but the two colonies have died out. This is the 4th year that we have had colonies across the winter and this is the first time that...
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    Advice for re-queening and aggressive hive

    Just an update, and thanks for all the advice. A far more experienced beekeeper has helped me move the colony to a isolation apiary where these bees will be far less of a problem for the general public, and he also want's to see what happens and if he can improve their temperament. These bees...
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    Advice for re-queening and aggressive hive

    All the hives face away from the approach path, but they were on us before we got to the hives. We will try to re-queen from nice eggs, or could I remove the queen and combine with another colony, or as they are very defensive is that unlikely to help? If euthanasia is to be considered how...
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    Advice for re-queening and aggressive hive

    No, we aren't need rape.
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