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I have ants crawling about over the coversheet in one corner of my hive. The colony is pretty weak and I'm waiting to see if it improves over the newt few weeks before I requeen. What can I do about the ants. Is it possible to use the liquid poision traps - the ants carry the posision back to...

We have had a lot of snow over the last day, we have had the best part of a foot so far with more to come. I haven't seen it like this for the last 5 years and its the first time for me with hives in this weather. What should I do with the hives, I have Segeberger Poly hives. So far I have...

I have a hive the I am concerned will not do well over the winter. After feeding it looks very full of stores and I have only a single frame with any brood on it. There are two undrawn frames near the hive entrance, is it too late in the year to move them to the centre to give more brood...

I have two single brood chamber hives each with a deep super on. Neither super is full or capped, though I have had one extraction earlier this summer from one hive. The nectar seems to be slowing and the weather hasn't been great for the last month, I'm debating to remove the queen guard and...

Last Tuesday one hive swarmed which I recaptured from the top of an apple tree and started off in a new brood box. I'm pretty new to this and wow there were a lot of bees, but very very calm as well. I have inspected the hive twice since then and it seems to have a really good nectar flow and...

Hello Everyone from an unwitting accidental apiarist. I'm quite new to beekeeping and stumbled into it more by accident than plan. My wife was gifted a hive last summer. Having got our initial hive through the winter I now have three on the go and am finding the whole experience fascinating...