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Right I have a small problem which I'm hoping has a remedy. I have 2 hives with 14x12 brood bodies. During the first lot of bad weather in april they swarmed. They both had queens which took their sweet time to start laying. In the meantime we got some goof weather and despite having a super on...

I have just finished moving my girls into their larger 14x12 quarters and in the few weeks when both brood box and 14x12 brood box were on I noticed some whitish looking brood cappings so dutifully had a little poke and to my horror saw this nasty little larvae trying to make a run for it. On...

I am looking at swopping to 14x12 brood body for both hives. Was wondering when the best time to start this process would be bearing in mind that winter sown rape is starting to rear its head and will be in full flower by early may.

I had a check on one of my hives today, very happy found sealed brood eggs and young larvae, however on closer inspection I found a few cells that had 2 eggs in. My question is this, is my queen failing or is this a perfectly normal thing to happen. The sealed brood does not have pronouced domes...

Found a place that sells hessian for 50 metres sqaure for under £30 thats inc vat and delivery email me if you want to know where from. Tho**es charge 6.33 inc vat exc. delivery for 1mx1.4m

Yesterday with the good weather I wandered up to see the girls all seemed to be out enjoying the sunshine so couldn't get too close but came back later with suit on to take a closer look. I had a bee from my weaker colony land on my hand and promtly poo all over it very liquid like. Now I'm a...

this is more of a query as i'm trying to understand why, but has any body else ever encountered a queen cell which has been built up from a mesh floor? I noticed this cell when looking through the hive and there were around 10 bees crawling all over it. Initially I thought it might just be a...

Not so long ago I AS my hive unfortunately for some reason I lost my original queen but that is a different story. Both Hives have produced a reasonable number of queen cells on friday I went and made sure that there was only one cell in each hive that was left and destroyed the others, I did...

Last monday I performed an artificial swarm on my hive so I ended up with old queen in new hive on old site with some food and a frame of brood and queen cells in old hive on new site. I went to check on saturday and have a look in the new hive, no sign of queen and several smallish queen cells...