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I'll start by thanking again all of you for the time and thought you have put into my enquiry. I have now put the new brood box complete with entrance full of drawn wax under the old brood box the old entrance taken away a honey supper that has been on the old bb through out the winter with some...

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Hi would you put the prepared new brood box with drawn comb under the old brood box now or wait for spring sunshine.

As i said i prefer a less invasive bee keeping i don't do any brood chamber checks if everything looks ok from the outside and looking in to the brood chamber from the top. I check the supers weekly or even daily when the bees are very busy checking the external area round the entrance twice a...

Yes he inferred that the build up of detritus in the ageing wax could lead to the colony being open to infection he sounded very convincing and vastly more experienced than me so i thought about it then after a bit of research decided that a baily change would be the way forward as it doesn't...

Yes he inferred that the build up of detritus in the ageing wax could lead to the colony being open to infection he sounded very convincing and vastly more experienced than me so i thought about it then after a bit of research decided that a baily change would be the way forward as it doesn't...

Thanks for all your advice will try it all when temp starts to rise. Dont know how bad comb is as I've been low intervention regime ie if theres enough space leave it only using gassing for veroa control never going on a Queen hunt but checking hive visually 2 or 3 times a day its worked for 4...

I have been trying to do a bailey change on my 1 hive because wax has not been changed for more than 4 years. Last spring i put a new brood box on top of the existing brood box filled with new undraw wax frames the bees drew out the new but then filled them with honey ignoring the super that...