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Still a newbie, and the last look inside the hives showed a couple of odd things I don't remember seeing before (different hives tho). Can someone enlighten me please?

I have an open mesh floor which the bees have pretty much sealed half of it. I want to clean it, but a soak in soda crystals didn't much. Any suggestions please?

I am still a beginner at this beekeeping lark and find myself with a dozen or so perfectly good frames which I want to put fresh foundation in and re-use. I have scraped them fairly clean but they are not pristine. I can easily freeze them - do I really have to boil them before re-using? I...

apologies in advance if this is obvious, but I'm a new beekeeper and haven't seen this before. I watch the hive daily, and there has been plenty of coming and going,. pollen going in, but these two or three corpses were by the entrance this morning.

I'm in my first year as a beekeeper in Kent with two hives going into winter. I was advised not to leave any supers on but to feed fondant. I put the first block on 3 weeks ago and have just checked - gone completely in both hives. How many blocks might they get through? They had some...