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Just a quick one, I want to treat a nuc, do I give it a full dose or do I put only half one in at a time. When I say nuc, it's been put in a national hive but is still small, three frames.

Had a quick look in my nuc that I introduced a new queen on Wednesday. Lifted lid to see her pop her head up and take a look around, then toddle off back down into the nuc. So I took a look in to see what's happening and she's busy laying nicely. Lets just hope her off spring are nice and...

Looking for two mated queens in the northeast, local mongrels are fine, mine have turned out to be drone layers

Hi I had one large ish hive which was going to swarm, so slit and made a nuc to expand! All fine then nuc swarmed when virgins hatched, luckily into a Spare hive. I combined the nuc an the swarm after no queen mated or survived? Then two weeks ago the original hive swarmed which I caught, now in...

Checked q- hive/ split sat, to add test frame, but found a small patch of drone brood maybe ten at most but a patch of queen cells in the middle of the same frame sealed Please advise oh knowledgeable ones

Last week (sat) I went through my hive, brood on 8 frames, couldn't find queen but there were eggs still so just thought I couldn't find her, there where some small queen cell in the centre of some frames, I left them. Today I went through them again, still couldn't see the elusive one,but found...

Hi as a newbee I am lost with all the diferent types of treatments for varroa, I am looking for something to treat the little red ones plus to help with chalk brood which I had a problem with this year and possably nosema but not to Sure about how you tell they have it. But the guy I got the...

My freind is giving me a nuc but is only half a mile away from where I am going to keep them. I was going to take them three mile away to the other end of the farm, but how long do they have to stop there till they can come back

Just quick question, which might be abit silly but can you feed mollases to the bees or is it bad for them, just have loads of it at work for cows.

Last year I was given a hive and bees, they struggled over winter but servived with some feeding. The Q is of unknown age but she is laying slowly, but there are little White boodies at the entrance. I have moved the brood to one side of hive and taken out all the old frames with no brood and...

Hi all, just started out and have one hive, but they aren't building up as quickly as I thought. Any ideas would be welcome