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Just been and yes two queen cells with trap doors, I was so sure. Bugger will have to hash something together to stick them in as have ordered extra kit but not yet arrived.

Not been in since AS 2 weeks ago to give queen chance to hatch and mate. Thanks for replies

Hive with original queen in is fine, didn't see queen but did see eggs and larvae, pollen coming in and need relaxed. The hive with the hanging bees was the one left with a single open queen cell 2 weeks ago, have left alone since to let queen emerge and mate. Am sure that there was only one...

They are also covering the back and underneath of the box. So this I think this is about to swarm??

AS 2 weeks ago, now bees are clustered on front of hive. Have a picture but can't work out how to insert it. Are they about to swarm so I should go in or are they waiting for queen to return from mating flight. Any thoughts? Thanks

Thanks for the replies. Just been to check again and bees still over front of hive but probably less than before and remain very calm. There also don't seem to be lots of bee corpses around so thinking their night camping out doesn't seem to have caused carnage yet. Have decided to leave the...

In York, temp 16 today and predicted to be min 12 overnight and max 21 daytime over the next week. Thought this would be ok. Thoughts? Have I jumped the gun?

First year of treating with apilife var. Put on one strip for each brood box in a double brood broken into 4 pieces in corners on top of brood box. I've read that bees may 'beard' on front of hive and mine are. Apilife was put on yesterday afternoon, checked yesterday evening and bees over front...

Am now 36 weeks pregnant and have found the biggest risk appears to be to my suit which is straining at the seams (I would insert a rapidly expanding emoticon here if there was one). There's no evidence that I can find that says that stings would cause any more issue than usual so I've...

Thanks for replies. Yes I'm new this year, did my winter course last year but still unsure about some things. My association are really helpful but nice to get some instant answers here rather than wait to speak to someone. Was worrying as have read a good bit about bees starving and problems...

Just wasn't confident about how heavy hive should be when hefted and thought that as such a nice day with ok temps and bees out flying and very active it'd be ok to do a final check. Sound like wrong thing to do and have just worried myself perhaps needlessly - guess I'll learn.

Thanks for the reply. Sorry I probably wasn't clear. There are 11 frames plus dummy board in the brood box, all frames are now full but only two are brood with the remaining 9 frames choc full with stores. Is this enough brood at this time of year or have the bees filled too many frames with...

Hi, I'm new to beekeeping this year. Did a final check today as weather nice and temp 16 here in Yorkshire. Bees are in a national with only two frames of brood today, the rest stores. Last checked just over 2 weeks ago and there was brood over 4 frames. Couldn't find the queen or eggs today...

I'm so shiny new to the beekeeping world that I don't even own bees yet (so please be nice!) but this situation made me think about situations within work which I am familiar with. If any of you give blood you may have noticed the rule that if you have ever received a blood transfusion then...