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Really you dont have to find the queen. Take off the roof, super(s) etc and the QE. Lift the frames of bees, one by one and shake the lot out under the hive, remove the brood box and shake it out. You will now have a buzzing confused colony on the gound. Put the QE on the floor and re-assemble...

I am a motorcyclist as well. Grown men gathering at a tea shop near a wood talking about lubrication.

Well I do seem to have prompted comment. Maybe folks on here are bored with the 'keeping' now most winter prep is done. My comment on oak trees on the ley lines was something I read somewhere during my musings on the subject of trees. Cant find the source but the quote was something akin to '...

But I am only trying to promt comment on here as to the percieved importance of ley lines in the navigaional aspects of bee activity. Honey bee orientation seems to be more accurate and yet more fickle than that of homing pigeons. If i go to the spring line villages near me, I often think why...

According to Dave Cushmans website these trees may be attractive, even if a colony does not survive a hash winter, for future swarms to settle because a) bees have been there before and b) the trees are positioned where several ley lines cross. I have a large tree (Ash) laid with the roots at...

I see you are in Lincs Fiona, I have four or five strong 6 frame nucs. They will be ok in a hive now if yours is in good condition, you can have one if you are not too far away. You would just have to feed. North Lincs or which town are you near?

Im new on here and (relatively new to beekeeping. 5 years 13 colonies (atm). Id stop messing about, choose a fair day but start AM, strip the hive cut and lift the frames that are good into another brood box on the original floor in the original position. Inspect carefully, hoping to find your...