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I need to relocate a couple of National Hives. Can anyone recommend the best ratchet straps to keep the hive together when moving. 25 mm straps seem a bit flimsy?

So having caught and hived two swarms in the past week or so there was another today. The ones I caught before are still in the new hives so is it likely that to be a new swarm. I hade one hive and a colony in a roof. Two weeks ago a swarm formed which I was too slow to capture so this makes 4...

So another swarm in my garden today. I caaught it in a box and tipped into a nuc but the are not all inside. Do I leave them to it or sweep them in and close it up. Last one disappeared into the distance before I caught them at all.

So I have a bait hive out(Poly nuc) and a swarm has settled in a tree 15 yards away. There are scouts checking the nuc. Should I wait to see if they go to the bait hive or capture the swarm and try to pour it in. The bait hive is in a differnt tree and I would have to move it to pour them in.

I am very new to beekeeping having captured a swarm that escaped into a bush from a colony in my roof. With Covid I have not been able to attend any courses but have been reading, u tubing and following this forum to try to obtain the relevant knowledge. Despite this my hive inspections have...

I had a large wild bee colony in my outhouse and decided to buy a hive to try to encourage them to move house. i Bought a National Hive kit with a brood box and two supers but before I had finished building it a swarm formed in a bush in my garden.I managed to capture it in a box and built the...