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Hi everyone I checked out a friends hive today. This hive swarmed about 6 weeks ago. What I found inside is : Every frame contained only about 15/20 drone cells in a pepperpot pattern. No sign of queen, lots of drones and workers,only drone brood. 3 or 4 empty queen cells. My opinion is, the...

Several of the hives I purchased from my local French beekeeper have since swarmed. I expected to get nucs when I ordered them but they turned out to be full size, with QE and one super. The hives had plenty of bees in them but they seemed reluctant to go up in the super.The QE was one of those...

Going to my local friendly French beekee tomorrow evening. Will be meeting all my beekee students there to collect their new colonies. Good business for him, eleven full size hives with bees,plus my Langstroth nuc. The package is a 10 frame dadant hive, with QE,plastic mesh floor,one super...

Hi everyone I observed hundreds of Bees milling around in front of the hive today. Thought they were going to swarm but they didnt. After a while they all settled down and normal service was resumed. There is a new queen in there, did I just observe a mating flight ? I didnt see them fly up...

Hi all My bees spend a lot of time on our laurel hedge. It is not in flower so dont know what they are after. Could it be some sort of sap to make propolis ? Thanks

Hi all When my Buckfast hive swarmed five times, I ran out of places to put them and sold two of the casts to a french beekee. He gave me 20 euros for the first but refused to give me more than 10 for the second. I would like to have kept them. Can I remove the queen from a small cast and then...

Hi everybody New to the Forum, glad to meet you all. Last year I purchased a nucleus of "Buckfast " bees. This year they have swarmed a total of 5 times within a period of about 2 weeks, and yet I read everywhere that they are not especially swarmy. After the first swarm has gone should I then...