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Hi all, can anyone point me in the right direction, for plans/design, to make one for swarm collection, are you better using poly nuc or national brood box, thanks in advance.

Hi, Virgin Queen on the 3rd of Aug inspected today, laying pattern looks fine however looks to be a drone laying queen. ? If she wasn’t mated is that due to it being early Aug and late in the season or is she just getting into the swing of things, what are your thoughts please

Hi what are your thoughts please, I think I dropped a bollock and marked my queen too soon, notes in my book on 19/5/23 say, I located beautiful queen and marked queen, no eggs or brood yet, revisited on the 8/6/23 on inspection eggs, larva present closed backup and didn’t do thorough...

Swarm that arrived in a swarm trap, please see pics attached, scrutinise and see if you can see a small queen, it would appear what shes laid they’ve produced QCs no other stages of brood. Thoughts please, 1, knock all but one down 2, use QCs and make A couple of nucs up from Stronger hives 3...

Hi All, is it common practice for the queen after being marked to play dead, I honestly s@@t my pants when I put her back and she just fell to the floor, picked up off floor and put on frames see attached vid.

Done split this morning and took to new apiary, checking x3 hives at apiary, one queen less and very few bees, removed all drawn comb as beyond saving, hive two queen right, rammed, queen looks past her best, however whilst checking found new queen on outside of hive, put in queen clip and went...

Done split this morning and took to new apiary, checking x3 hives at apiary, one queen less and very few bees, removed all drawn comb as beyond saving, hive two queen right, rammed, queen looks past her best, however whilst checking found new queen on outside of hive, put in queen clip and went...

Hi All, just a quick question, due to splitting hives honest opinions, walk away split or buy a queen in, temperament of bees is fine, the only benefit I can see if I buy in will save me possible 3-4 weeks as they rear their own queen, secondly how many queen Cells would you leave...

Hi All what’s the general consensus, I’m presently using nation brood box’s and supers, would there be any benefit to just using one or the other. All brood or all supers.

Hi all, what’s the best tool for uncapping? Knife, fork/scratcher or roller.

Hi All, Advice please, I re queened hive with bought queen 7-7-21, not the strongest of colonies, appeared all good, she was laying intermittently, but not the best laying pattern, however inspected today, no queen and x2 new queen cells. I’ve recently moved two weaker hives that were being...

Hi all, TimBeeZ here, I’m relatively new been at it for approx 3 years.. Im Presently having a mare with a hive, originated as a queenless swarm, which was super aggressive, I gave them a frame of Mixed eggs larva, they drew 5 queen cells, cell hatched and the remaining cells were torn down by...