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Im interested in anyone's opinion on how big a problem I have in 2 of my hives. Both have multiple frames of brood in a good pattern and little drone brood, but there are a few cells in each where there is more than one egg. Can this just be a less than perfect queen? Or is this always laying...

I read the posts last year about thymol syrup helping with nosema - bought all the stuff methylated spirits the granules etc then never got round to doing it in the autumn.. Now worried about a couple colonies. Am I too late? Is it possible to squeeze in some treatment before the first flows...

i wondered what the anyones opinion is on the best and quickest way of making increase. I've now 9 hives on 2 apiaries. Most of these are splits of some sort. Ive got the rearing kit kit but no actual queens on the go yet. I had some success with this last year with a couple of mating...

I have 2 hives both same site which were in swarming mode. I did one AS but took the old queen to a new site leaving one cell in the original hive. The other cells I used to make an exta nuc and successfully requeened another hive. The other hive the cells were hatching in front of me and I...

I live in Perthshire and have had my bees for 3 years now - been through about every problem there is and currently fingers crossed have 3 colonies which look fine so far this year. Local advice or any advice always appreciated and although i wouldn't say i was qualified to give out my own...

I realise this may have been asked a million times before but..i have finally got some honey and its mostly heather. The first lot i took off i think in early sept came out using my little extractor but the later stuff i believe ling honey will not budge as expected. Is there a way of getting...

My new site is up high and is surrounded by heather so took off a very full super tonight of my first lot of heather honey. Very pleased but there were just a ridiculous amount of bees pouring out of the hive and i wondered if they would actually all fit back in since i'd taken off the super...

one of my hives was double nat brood with three supers two filling and one full so i took one it off. Went back just now and all the honey is pretty much gone (one or two frames with some uncapped). In the brood boxes there is at least 10 frames of capped brood and eggs and larvae everywhere...

I have two colonies and 3 nucs (from recent splits) these have carnolian queens and one with a NZ queen - apparently need more space than one brood box. I have two sites one can be cold but is on an organic farm so plenty forage. I'm in two minds about a double brood national or convert over...