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Hi everyone - another newbee question from me! Are you still feeding your bees? When do you stop? I was told to keep feeding til they stop taking it, but they are showing no signs of doing this! They are slowing up, but still getting through half a kilo of sugar made in to syrup each week in...

Hi all, So here in Kent it's starting to get chilly now so I'm thinking of what preparations I need to start to make for winter, if I could get some tips please... 1. First of all, I did an inspection as it was quite sunny today & the bees were pretty active - at what point does it get too...

Hi all, I did an inspection on Sunday & added Apivar strips to the hive. For the first time since I got my bees in July, I saw one bee with an obvious varroa mite on it during the inspection, but that was all. Queen was present & active but I noticed a lot less brood than previous inspections...

Just wondered if anyone can recommend any good bee-keeping books to a newbee? I have Ted Hooper's Guide To Bees & Honey but am looking for something else - something easy for a new beekeeper to understand & put into practice? Thanks

hi, i have posted before but not had much response to my recent question - this is my first colony so a bit unsure at the mo. i got my small cast of approx. 5000 bees about 5 weeks ago, was told by my mentor to keep feeding them & not disrupt the hive for 3-4 weeks, then to add a 2nd brood box...

hi all, well i've had my cast of what was about 5000 bees in a brood box in national hive for about a month now and they seem to be doing really well - just been noticing when re-filling their feed recently, there seems to be double the amount of bees in the feeder & at the hive entrance since...

My parents have a wild colony of honeybees that live under the tiles in an outside corner of their very old house. There has always been a colony there each year of the 25 years my folks have been there, plus the lady who owned the house for 20 years before them also always had a colony in...

Hi everyone, I've had my small cast a few weeks now & have been feeding them sugar syrup with a rapid feeder, as instructed by the person I inherited them from. I've been checking it every 3-4 days and most of the feed has gone by then, so I've been re-filling accordingly. I have been finding...

Hi everyone, I'm new to beekeeping and wonder if anybody can explain something to me. I've just got my first colony in a national hive, it's quite small as it was an after-swarm. The person who caught the swarm & passed them on to me has advised me to switch round the brood box, and move it...