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I looked in the brood box today and the frame near the hive wall has gone mouldy on the outer face and there was two big slugs,can anyone explain why?,I have a wire mesh floor,and its the frame nearest the entrance.

after losing a swarm,and then the new queen disappeared as well,I tried a frame of eggs,this only produced 2 of the poorest queen cells,so after weeks of being broodless and queenless I bought a mated queen which arrived and was introduced to my hive last friday,when I checked today(6 days...

if you lose a swarm then manage to recapture it,is it ok to relocate it next to its original location,or will the bees orientate back to the original hive?

The natural world is about the life of a queen honey bee,its on next thursday on bbc2 at 8 oclock

Is it too soon to remove mouse guards?

I have noticed the price of sugar seems to be rocketing,its just gone up another 7p since last week,does anyone know why?

Is there an alternative to acetic acid for sterilising frames and comb?

I haven't quite mastered hefting so I put a screw into the side of the floor and hooked my carp weighing scales around it,when I lifted it one hive weighed 41lb and the other 37lb,both hives are nationals and have one super on which i left them on when I extracted my honey,when weighing this way...

The bees in both my hives haven't taken any sugar syrup down,the feeders have been on for 2 weeks,I have tried trickling syrup down the middle and putting honey down as well but they just took the honey and that was it,anyone got any other ideas?

I need to leave a super on while I do my apigard treatment but do I put the eke on top of the brood box (under the super),or on top of the super,I think I need to leave the super on because there is a lot of bees and not enough food in the brood box.

Is it ok to treat for nosema with nozevit as a precaution?or should we find out if the bees have nosema before treating?

A friend has got 4 supers of capped honey on his hive,he wants to extract honey from 3 of them,should he clear them 1 at a time or put the clearer board at the bottom of the 3?

A friend wants clear 3 of the 4 supers on his hive,should he clear all 3 at the same time or 1 at a time? sorry just realised I put this post in the wrong category.

I've just been to top my wasp traps up with beer and the largest hive has got about 200 hundred bees on the outside of the hive,all on the brood box just above the entance,whats going on?

Just found this after I saw it on telly http://www.waspinator.co.ukcould it really work?

do I need to remove the supers from the bottom hive before I reunite 2 colonies?

when artificially swarming a hive does the queen have to be placed in a new brood box , and all the brood remain in the old one?or can it be done the opposite way round?,will all the bees know they are in the same hive? When carrying out inspections I would like to keep the same queen in the...

I did an inspection today and also marked a new queen,when I removed the queen marking cage she flew off and dissapeared into the sky,she had returned when I checked 3 hours later,but I noticed 1 of her back legs seems deformed or damaged,she was dragging it rather than walking on it,she has not...

I just found out today that a lady four doors up had a swarm in her garden last week,she had no idea I keep bees and so she rang the council,but they had moved on by the time he arrived,do bees get attracted by other bees near by or was it just a coincidence?