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Hi I keep my bees in someone else's garden - the 2 hives are on a border facing out onto the garden so it renders that part of the garden pretty useless for anything else. The owners have some little people visiting them next week who are likely to be running around the garden playing. My plan...

Hi I use a 14x12 deep brood box but I also have some stores on a super. Which is the best set-up over winter: 1) Super above brood with QX between the two (presumably the cluster won't break up and leave the queen so they won't move up to take the super stores?) 2) Super above brood with no QX...

Just wondered what the best advice is for storing drawn (empty) frames over the winter. Is it ok to leave them in a empty hive on site with the entrance closed? And what is the product of choice for keeping wax moths at bay and any other nasties that might take a shine to them whilst there are...

Hi So I purchased my bees on standard brood last season but changed all but one frame onto deep brood frames last year. I'd now like to swap out the one remaining standard brood frame as it's old and black and of course the bees build brace comb on the bottom to fill out the space in the deep...

Hi I took advantage of the warm weather on Friday in London to inspect my 2nd colony. Its a small colony and I suspect the queen (new from June last year) isn't very strong - I had taken a queen cell from my other hive and stuck it on the brood comb last year - wasn't a very big Q cell but she...

Can anyone advise please. The answer will no doubt depend on the size of my colonies, but I'm trying to get an idea of how many frames of stores on 14x12 will be enough for my colonies. Currently I have two colonies as a result of an artificial swarm in May. So they are not huge. But both have...

Hi I am a brand new beekeeper in London. I have a national hive with 14x12 brood box and deep fames of foundation to fit. However I have just purchased bees (1 week ago) on 8 frames of standard. And at the time of purchasing the guy added 2 frames of my 14x12 foundation into the brood box - so...