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So, I was doing a final check on my nucleus hives today. What a complete hash I made of it. Couldn't find the queen in one so thought I'd give it a second go, still no queen but saw a few eggs so thought ok, leave it alone, give it a tidy up and stick the lid on. The feking lid wasn't going down...

Hi all, just looking for a little advice or suggestions. I have no option but to move 12 nucs I'm overwintering to another location. Unfortunately, the only location I have is a mile down the road in my new apiary. I hear/see it all the time, if moving bees you should move them 3 miles away...

So just putting it out as a general ask. Considering starting off a one frame nuc for overwintering. A full frame of brood and full frame of stores due to having a spare queen. Too late as just entering August?

So I recently my first split, two weeks ago. Three frames of brood and three frames of foundation plus introduced a mated queen. Checked after 7 days and the queen was still stuck in the cage but had been accepted as soon as she ran out all the bees around her were calm. Left another 7 days...

So I've just done my first ever split. Three frames of capped brood and extra bees tapped in, plus new queen in a cage with fondant. All went well. Just went out to check two hours later and all I can hear is a crackling sound coming from the hive. Anyone experienced this with a poly nuc...

So, I discovered my queen outside the hive yesterday, and worse for ware. Not sure what happened but I did an inspection, no queen cells, everything as should be, so I assume she went out and got caught out by the weather. I've ordered anew queen. My question being, as I've had contradicting...