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I recently did a hive split after half my colony swarmed . I took advice and split the hive and made a new nuc, with what I thought was an active queen cell within. There seems to be limited activity in my new nuc. I think there may be no queen present. If this is the case can I recombine the...

Hi Guys, I am in my second season with hopefully a crop if my first honey from my bees.They seem to have wintered well and I was glad I managed to fend off the scourge of Asian hornets with my beer and grenadine traps. I opened the hive for inspection the frames appear healthy and there are...

Hi from Dordogne France

I have to rookie questions one is should I keep replenishing syrup in the top feeder? They seem to be going slow on it at the moment. The other question is how do I identify honey in the hive that has been made from this syrup and can this be consumed or mixed with the honey when harvested?I...

Does anyone know how serious the problem of hornets can be on my hive. I've set hornet traps around the hive, they seem to be very successful in catching European hornets and now Carrion beetles. Every day I visit my hive I kill a 5-7 hornets waiting to catch and fly off with my bees. So far...