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Hi Folks I’m gifting my buddy a nuc on standard DN4 frames from my national hives. What’s the best way to transfer the frames? Are Langstroth frames big enough to just cable tie or screw the DN4 frames inside the Langstroth? TIA

Anybody else still waiting for Bee Equipment Orders apparently delayed because of wood quality After waiting since beginning of March for Supers, I’m now offered a refund. Patrick or anyone care to comment

When carrying out swarm prevention using the Demaree method of; leaving the Queen in the lower BB and moving the brood into the upper BB position separated by 2 Supers, (with the intention of reuniting the split later in the year) What is the reason for the 2nd Queen excluder under the upper...

Like a lot of people out there, I was one of those that aspired for years to keep bees. I’d visited a couple of apiaries and sat wistfully amongst the returning foragers and fantasised that one day I’d get my own hives. However living in a terraced house with a small garden on a small island on...

Best Emergency Cells When adding a frame of BIAS & eggs to a Queen-less colony, For a novice the emergency Queen cells may appear to be placed randomly on the frame. Choosing one cell to remain when reducing them, can be a bit of a lottery. Presumably you want a cell that was fed royal jelly...

Having carried out a walk away split. Leaving BIAS for them to raise QCs I’m wondering when to expect emerging queens On day 6 there were 2 charged QCs. On day 9 there were 7 capped QCs What day should I expect the first Queen to emerge ? I know it’s 16 days from egg or maybe day 13 from graft...

Is there any scientific or observed data on the distances that bees fly for forage? 🌷🔁🐝 Or is just what’s been copied n pasted from old books Seems the usual wildly varying guesstimates circulate 🤷🏻‍♂️

I’ve noticed from a lot of YouTube videos that upper entrances into honey supers are quite common in the good ole US&A, but haven’t seen any UK Beeks using or recommending their use. is it just a cultural thing or due to climate Cheers

What makes the Queen lay unfertilised eggs in worker cell. Do the workers enlarge the entrance of the cell of worker foundation after its drawn, and is it this that triggers her to lay a drone?

Just to quell my mind..., Didn’t this forum used to display next to the users name in posts - how many hives they have and where they are ? Or is that a different forum? Or am I having a senior moment🤷🏻‍♂️ cheers

I hope I’m speaking for other Beginners here... I know that most folk entering the art this year have lacked the usual mentoring and intro courses. For obvious reasons I’ve spent Probly 100s of hours on YouTube etc. The thing is, we have all been told to inspect our hives religiously on a...

Do we have to worry about Hive Beetles here in the UK. Are they present? Thanks

For fear of exposing my naivety....here goes I realise the benefits of having frames with drawn comb i.e supers ready to go in spring and drawn brood frames for splits, collecting swarms and use in bait hives. So.... 1: Is using a spinning extractor the only way of preserving the drawn comb on...

I’ve noticed lots of nucs for sale on Facebook. I’m a 1st year newbie. I was told that nucs have to be ordered in the winter prior to starting in spring. Is there usually a glut of nucs for sale at this time of year? I presume they are mostly from splits that folk can’t accommodate in their...

Hi Folks I installed my first colony on June 1st. It was a captured swarm and had been housed in a nuc for appx 7 days. There was no brood that I could see when I transferred them to my brand new National. On 9th June there was brood at all stages incl capped. On 19th June I noticed bees with...