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Thanks for the info pargyle, I did see one varroa mite whilst uncapping the drone brood but not as many as I would have thought. I will do a varroa check on the brood box and treat with MAQS if a high(ish) count is seen. I will then return the supers to the hive for the workers to clean up. thanks

Hi, On inspections I, like most I fancy, lifted the supers off and concentrated on the brood box. Over the winter the QE was removed and replaced end of April. How the queen ended up in the supers I have no idea, maybe she was small enough after emerging to get through the QE and swelled...

Cutting a long story short, I had 2 supers with a trapped virgin queen, above the queen excluder, in the brood box I had a marked, mated queen, she was laying brood normally. The virgin queen was laying only drone brood in the supers, naturally the drones couldn't get out through the excluder...

Thanks for the add. I live in Bury, Greater Manchester and have three hives in my back yard. I have been bee keeping for about 4 years after attending an introduction course at Manchester and District Beekeepers association (MDBKA)