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I've no bees following crazy wasp season in the autumn. I'd rather get up and going again as soon as possible rather than waiting on the offchance of a spare swarm. I got an email about ordering bees from here however I'm not sure about ordering from abroad and besides that I have national...

My colony has been under attack from wasps. I've done everything I could think of. Entrance has been down to one bee space, ( with a little tunnel rigged up in the hope the bees could defend easier with that ) Wasp traps everywhere, hours spent picking off wasps one by one, hours spent looking...

I've read several different accounts of the best way to go about this but would like some advice on best way for my situation. I split my hive in May hoping to prevent a swarm and up my single hive to two. The split made queen cells which hatched sometime between 20th and 27th of May. There is...

I split my hive two weeks ago to try to prevent a swarm and make up for winter losses. One of the hives, the split with only a few frames, seems quite mellow and there is a hatched queen cell so I am hopeful there that there is a queen and I just couldn't spot her. The other hive, the original...

Hi, I have a brood and a half. Last week I checked the bottom of the half and there was no sign of any queen cells. Today when the sun came out there was crazy amount of activity around the hive and they were buzzing their heads off. Raced into the house and got suited up and returned. Hive...

Hi, I have one hive doing really well. It has a brood and a half and on top of that 2 nearly full supers. only one completed frame whicdh i rwemoved but all the others well on the way. I gave this have another super but now its pretty tall. Can i just shift one of the supers onto one of my...

Hi, I caught a swarm this morning. They are in a pastic nuc box at present. They are from my strong hive. ( or was strong hive..) I have another hive which swarmed a couple of weeks ago. I missed that one. They are still very week with no sign of any larvae at all. I'm not good at spotting eggs...

Hi, I stumbled across a swarm this afternoon and have managed to get it into one of the nuc boxes that I got the bees in last year. It is a plastic travel nuc box with 5 frames and I've put it inside a wooden box thats just a bit bigger and that will give them some protection. There was room...

Hi, My second year as a bee keeper but last year didn't get them until quite late. This colony over wintered well and were filling up the brood box so 3 weeks ago I added a super to give them more brood space. They seem to have pretty much filled up the super. Perhaps I should have waited and...

Hi, I've just been to check on my bees. I was going to give them some sugar syrup but noticed the feeders are looking a bit mouldy. I'd just left them in over the winter. How can I clean them safely? If I clean them with some washing up liquid ( and rinse well) would that possibly affect them...

Hi, I have two hives started from two nucleus in May. At yesterday's inspection I could see larvae in neither hive. Two weeks ago I removed the feeders. Last week I did not inspect them as it was very wet. Hive 1: There appear to be plently of bees. They have started about 5 frames in the...

Hi, I managed to get two nucleus of bees about a month ago and installed them in their hives. I was giving them a weekly feed of sugar syrup ( 1:1 ). One of the hives has about 8 frames of brood now and is busy in the super. They seem fine. The other hive only is only just expanding to 7...