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Just found that queen was in the super so on examination found the most beautiful brood and then to find the queen. Yes I found her dead jammed in the Q excluder and with 3 Q cells with larvae. This is a mustard yellow plastic and bought last year. From a Ths agent . Rumour has it that there...

I bought some tubes of attractants. Instructions said do not spread onto Poly hive but spread onto tops of frames. obviously overspill found its way to the floor of my poly nuc box sitting on top of garage roof. I found that some poly had holes 1/2 inch deep from this attractant. A few drops...

I have 3 hives that I keep in my front garden. Two days ago I examined hives one and 2 without incident. No 3 was a little cross but nothing out of the ordinary. I was wearing Nitrile gloves and had 3 stings on the right hand. Within a very short time I could feel my pulse thudding in my head...

Flat packed hives from China seem to be advertised on at least 2 or more sites and the printed feedback is in every case favourable. The cost is very reasonable and they are stated to be made of first class cedar and not seconds. Has anyone got first hand knowledge of these hives?

Because of an increase in apiary size I have a surplus 4 frame extractor for sale on Ebay item No 110903410588. It was made by E H Taylor who was taken over byTH**nes. It is only suitable for home use and not retail sales as it is a metal extractor but is perfect for a Newbee with 4 or less...

I have a hive with a clipped and marked Queen. The 2 supers were filled with bees this am so I added a 3rd to give space and avoid a swarm. However on opening the brood box; again filled with bees I found 6 Q cells so I immediately made preparations for an AS but I could not find the Q. I went...

I opened a hive yesterday and in the super on checking the frames ( on wide spacers) I was very surprised to see 2 Queen cells tacked on to the centre of the comb with one each on 2 frames. There were no brood or eggs in the super so the queen had not come up through the Q excluder.Taking the...

I put in Apiguard 2 days ago and today about a double handful of bees have camped outside and even as I write at 10pm they are still clustered on the side of the hive. I have heard of something like this happening but what do I do about them. The drop of mites on the corrux board is several...