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Four weeks ago we decided to move our two hives from our garden to a friend's field because we - and our neighbours - were getting stung, after three peaceful years when no-one but me got stung (twice, through my clumsiness). Like a lot of people on here we suspected the strange weather pattern...

A friend has a swarm (possibly her own bees) 30 ft up an evergreen tree. Even with a cherry picker you couldn't get near them without cutting down the surrounding trees. We've put a bait hive on top of a platform ladder under the tree with some nice old black comb brood frames in. 24 hours on...

Took a swarm (from one of my hives) on Tuesday and rang a friend who has an empty hive and wanted a colony. She wasn't quite ready, so I knocked up a temporary home for them in a couple of supers (all I had to hand), the lower one with frames with some drawn comb, with a crown board and a...

My bees are still taking fondant quite happily. Should I be thinking about switching to weak sugar syrup any time soon? (First winter I've used fondant, so I'm not sure.)

I've never seen so much wasp activity round my hives. My bees are still foraging for pollen and I'm feeding them 2:1 syrup again because they seem to have depleted their stores (temperature still around 15 degrees, syrup not crystallising). There are constant battles going on round the hives...

For the last two weeks one of my two WBC hives has been extremely active with hundreds of bees in and out and around the front of the hive at all times of day and all day long, and a couple of times I thought they might be about to swarm, or maybe start a mating flight, but nothing has happened...