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One of my hives has had a broken brood frame in place since mid-Summer. The wax came away and the bees continued to use it and built all kinds of comb sticking it to the adjacent frame. I left it in situ as I didn't want to overly disturb the Summer activities especially egg laying as this is a...

After seeing plenty of play cups and having been away for 10 days I carried out an inspection on my single hive today and I finally had a large queen cell (sealed). Having been prepared for this I began my AS operation as per Dave Cushman. All was going well until it came to finding the Queen...

I performed an inspection of my only hive yesterday and was please to find it building up nicely. Brood on 7 frames with various amounts of stores on these frames also plus a further 3 frames of stores. The main purpose of the inspection was to spot any swarm cells. Here lay the challenge. 3...

I'm in my first year of keeping and after reading/listening to all kinds of advice regarding treatment for Varroa I opted not to treat with any of the Api stan/guard/Life Var products but rather use the Hive Clean liquid on a regular basis. All seemed well during the Summer. However, I've had a...

I have an adult bee disease microscopy course coming up and need to collect (and then kill :o( ) a sample of 30 bees. I've been advised that the bees should be flying bees so any ideas on the best and least distressing way to collect around 30 flyers?