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I have five hives - all came through the winter ok it seamed - However on further inspection, the one hive that was on double brood was not doing as well as the other single brood hives. They are covering 7 of the 14x12 frames with brood larvae and stores in the upper chamber but the brood...

I did my first full inspection of the year a week ago. 4 hives were fine but one had no brood eggs or larva apart from half a dozen capped drone cells. 14x12 frames - Lots of bees - ample honey stores - lots of pollen and very active bees - lots of foraging. I suspected that the queen was...

I am a 1st year beekeeper. I started with 1 colony summer 2021 and went into winter with that original colony plus a split and a cast swarm. Although all 3 hives had high varroa levels going into winter a number of O/A vapes sorted it. All three hives have made it through winter. It was my...

This is my first post to this Forum. I am a new beekeeper - Having purchased a 6 frame 14x12 nuc in May. On collection, I was told they had Varroa and should treat straight away. I put them in a 10 frame 14x12 WBC with 2 strips of Apistan for 6 weeks. I counted more than 2000 dead mites in the...