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I have 2 good strong apidea with mated queens and I am now wondering if they will over winter ok in the apidea. What's the best way to do this? I was going to sell the queens but some of my hives had EFB , the seasonal bee inspector did not have time to come back and give my home apiary the all...

I think I made a big mistake. I left my 14x12 hives with 1 and a half supers of stores for winter. I am always so worried my bees will starve. Fairly good size colonies. Is a 14x12 brood box big enough to over winter bees and food? Should I have left any supers on? Supers are now granulated so...

We have had amazing weather, warm and sunny for 10 days and I am noticing my brood boxes are stuffed full of pollen, so much so that the queen is running out of room to lay. Do bees rearrange and move pollen in the brood box? Should I remove frames full of pollen? Has anyone else got the same...

Looks like I will have to split a huge colony of what I think are Italian x bees. Can I requeen with any other race of bee?

Today i went round hives checking stores? One hive has a floor, 14 x 12 brood box, eke, crownboard, roof. In the eke was a small bit of fondant left but the bees had filled the eke with brace comb which was drone size cells. Why would they make drone brace comb? Should I remove brace comb...

Should I feed my bees syrup? My poor bees are Very low on stores, weather cloudy/ dull/cold/damp and looks like its going to be like that for a few more weeks. If I were a bee, I would be pretty depressed stuck in the hive unable to get out and collect all the fresh pollen that's about. We had...