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    Help! Wild Honey headache!

    I'm an inexperienced beekeeper who's recently moved house. With a lack of space to store my two empty hives, I put them in my fathers garden, but without any frames or foundation. It now appears that one of them has been thoroughly colonised in my absence! It's too cold to open it up now, but I...
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    Inexperienced panic...no brood!

    I'm fairly inexperienced, and at the moment I only have one colony. Thanks in part to the lost weather, and in part to other commitments I haven't been through my colony in a few weeks - just sniffed around the entrance and peeked down through the glass quilt to gauge activity. Today I had a...
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    Silly Newbie question about Hive Floor

    My hive has a perforated metal floor, but also the option of a slide-in metal tray for collecting varroa drop. Am I right in thinking that the only time I should have the slide-in tray is when I'm using the Apiguard, or does it have a role during winter in preventing draughts coming in through...
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    Why are my bees on outside of hive

    I'm in my second year of beekeeping, and have two colonies. Both of them have a thick "mat" of bees hanging on the outside of the hive - it's been like that for some days. They did it a bit last year, particularly early evening, but they're there all day now. I'm on National Hives, and although...
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