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I have a hive with a really good queen in a 14x12 box who has created a huge load of brood this year. They’ve fully drawn, filled and capped 4 supers and I’m planning on removing all 4 supers at the end of this week and then feeding syrup/fondant in winter rather than leaving them a super of...

Evenin all. Recently we identified a case of sacbrood in one of our hives. It’s in a hive that has struggled a bit all year for various reasons and recently requeened (supercedure). Obviously this queen is struggling too, so it’s probably bad genetics. I’ve read that the only way to deal with...

Afternoon all, I have come into possession of a commercial nuc of bees. However, all my hives (and spares) are nationals, with 14x12 brood boxes. I understand that with a standard national brood box I can get a Hamilton converter to take the Commercial frames from the nuc (when it's time to...

Collected a large prime swarm yesterday from a tree on the pavement on a quietish cul-de-sac estate. What was weird though was the huge number of bees not in the cluster in the tree, but spread out across the road beneath, all waiting to get run over by cars. It was over quite a large area, say...

Hi all, Last year I bought 3 hives off another beekeeper, all full of honey and bees (he had to shift quick as his daughter had a bad reaction to a sting). Lovely colonies and we extracted loads of honey out of them. Bonus. However, the honey we extracted from these 3 colonies granulated very...

Hi all, Firstly, hi, I'm new here, sorry for lurking a little while, didn't want to jump in all boisterously and that. My wife and I have 4 hives in rural Suffolk. During a routine inspection this weekend we discovered several clumps of what looks like previously capped brood becoming...