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5 and 6 frame nucs and some full size colonies for sale in Wigan, Lancashire. Hobby bee keeper reducing number of hives. Unmarked and unclipped queens. Bees and drawn frames included but not the boxes. 5 frame £80, 6 frame £100. Full size depends on size and if any super frames. Please PM...

I have three hives at one location and have been feeding 2:1 syrup and treating with Apiguard for two weeks. I did a quick check yesterday to put second treatment in and see how they have done with syrup. One hive had taken all the syrup but another hive had only taken about half of the amount...

We have a large hive which is made up of:- 2 national brood boxes QX Then 4 supers of which 3 are 75% full and one is 20% On inspecting tonight there are a vast amount of bees in all parts of the hive and the brood boxes which have 9 frames each are probably 60-70% brood of which 70% of that...

An interesting day today; I volunteered myself and my two beekeeping sons (Luke 17 and Patrick 14) to display an observation hive at Mesnes Park (pronounced Mains) and yet again they make me so proud. They love the bees with Luke looking after the colonies at home and Patrick looking after the...

The second traumatic incident for me today was with a small swarm that I got about 4 weeks ago. They have settled in nicely into their brood box and the queen has been laying well for around 3 weeks. When we inspected today we decided to mark her. When we went to get her off the frame she...

When doing an inspection today of a cast swarm nuc we caught the bees moving a larvae about. As you can see in the foreground the queen is still getting used to laying as there are 3 eggs in one cell. Do they often move larvae around?

Can it possible that a hive on a double national can have two queen? If you look that the following photos you can see what the bees have done, or rather what I have let them do. I had a double BC through the winter and did an AS at the end of April. With the weather being bad the queen did...

I was alerted to what looks like a cast swarm today which was found by my 10 year old daughter. It was the size of a small melon. She has helped me with a swarm before and spotted it. It was on a very thick bramble stalk and in quiet an exposed position. It has been very blowy here today and...

On Thursday I was called by a local beek who was looking for a home for a swarm he collected. I had no spare boxes and so I quickly went to a diy store and go some ply and knocked together a nuc. Friday morning I dropped it off at his house. On Friday evening I called round to collect the nuc...

I only have the one colony at the moment and it is on a National double BC which I set up in preparing for the winter. The colony so far has survived and so I am wondering what I should be doing in the spring with the double BC:- Should I, At an early spring inspection combine the brood and...

I stated on a separate thread, getting many opinions was confusing but it was pointed out to me that there can be many right answers as there lots of variable to consider. I am pretty low at the moment and I am concerned I have intervened and messed around with my bees too much mainly out of...

I am a novice and would be grateful for some guidence. Last Sunday after being away for 3 weeks my new colony of bees swarmed. The swarm was caught and is in a new hive and has settled in. I have just check the old colony today and I have a dilema. The old hive has six capped and unhatched...