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Hi all I am in Essex and i am looking to replace a failed hive we had over winter, so are there any local beekeepers who will be selling any over winters nucs? Thanks Nick

Hi all. When are people planning on their first inspection of the year? Having checked throughout the year and topping up fondant, i lost one of my 2 hives. Just conscious i don't want to cause any undue upset to my last hive. Cheers

Hi all Due to ill health i have missed this year in treating the bees. I have a pack of Apilife Var on my desk. Do i go out now and put some in each of my hives? Is it too late to treat with Apilife Var? Thanks Nick

Took the last of the supers off this lunch time and moved them inside. 3 supers with a good amount of honey. All cleared of bees. Moved them inside the house maybe 20 meeters from the hive. Had a loose bee so I opened the window and and let him out. Not realising I left the window open. Now 3...

Hi all I am clearing down the 4 supers on my hive and leaving 1 empty super in its place. Upon removing the supers the bees were very very Angy. I didn't get a chance to do an inspection yesterday when I removed the supers. Am I best to leave it a few days or should I inspect today since...

Hi all On an inspection today on a hive with a single deep broodbox, QE then 3 supers, i found larvae in the supers with honey being moved to the brood frames Whats the best method to get the queen back down to the brood box? She must has been on the QE on the last inspection and i must have...

Hi all So I am at a sufficient level of supers on my hives at the moment. I have been reading about the June Gap and I am wondering if I should remove supers in June to extract ready for July and onwards. Or should I leave them? Thanks Nick.

Hi all. Both my hives are going very strong. One hive from a split i performed earlier this year is up to 2 supers. the original hive is now on its 4th super which was added today How many supers do beekeepers tend to go to as a reasonable number? Thanks Nick

Hi all Question regarding honey supers I have a hive which has 3 supers on. The last one added last weekend. They are doing well filling the new super frames. What do people do when the 3rd super is full, do you harvest the full 1 or 2 boxes of supers and re-add them once harvested or do you...

Hi all I re-queened a week ago and on inspection under the queen cage I found a single wax moth larvae. I removed it and looked through the frames and didn't see any signs of through the brood or super frames. The colony is a single brood box with 1 super box. Very strong Is there anything...

Hi all My over wintered colony is very strong and I have found 3 CQC. Brood is 8+ frames. I took the QCs down but I was unable to find the queen. To be honest. I always struggle to find the queen. Spending nearly an hour I couldn't find the queen. Shook the frames for a final review of the...

Hi. I am trying to prepare a course of action for splitting this year. My aim is to have 2 functioning hives. I have a single hive at the moment with 1 single national brood box on. I have watched many videos, read so much but i think I am going to be planning on the Doolittle split. My...

Hi all. I lost a nuc over the cold winter, with it not being warm enough over the last few weeks i have opened it up to find no life. What am i best to do with the drawn out comb? Any recommendation to prep the frames for re-use? Thanks

Hi all I had a bit of an issue with a hive where we thought we would lose it. Thankfully though, with a few frames from a nuc I bought I was able to recover. Everyday is a school day and I made some mistakes but I am back on track. During this period I removed the supers a couple of.months...

I have a nuc which seems very full. I plan to.move it to my national hive today. What are people's thoughts on doing it. It's a strong colony in a 6 frame.nuc

So background. We had a very heathy hive, i missed a QC and we had a huge swarm. We were unable to take back the swarm so went through the process of introducing a mated queen from Black Mountain honey. The queen was rejected by the colony and the bees started producing several QC's. I...

Hi all, So from a recent swarm we had in April i have been unable to recover the colony even after a rejected mated queen. Because of this i am looking for a NUC in essex. Thanks

Hi all. So 3 weeks ago, we had our first swarm. I caught the swarm in a NUC but unfortunately, the left the next day due to the lack of space i expect. I left it a week and removed all the queen cells to introduce a new BlackMountain Buckfest mated queen. 48 hours later i removed he cage...

Hi all. So today we noticed a swarm happening. They swarmed to a tall tree over a few locations of branches. I got a clean bucket and went up a ladder and shook the branches and poured th bees into a nuc. The last batch of bees I left in the bucket to make their way to the nuc Now. Is this...

Wanted a radial 4 or 6 frame honey extractor in Essex.