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    Accidental swarm merger!

    Afternoon all, Just want to see if this has happened to anyone else.. and what to watch out for as I'm new to this! Quick background is we have 2 hives, 1 revived a swarm 10 days ago, settled down fine, happily drawing out comb, laying eggs... then a week after that swarm was given to us, we...
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    Here and Gone...

    Afternoon all, Not having much luck with bees at the moment... Our (me and the misses, although it's really her project!) first hive of bees died over the winter, no idea why. Our friendly local bee man said dispose of them and all honey, clean hive by singing and put in new foundation...
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    Bees remove foundation along wires

    Afternoon all, Thanks for previous help... As in the title really, I've got a newish (~6weeks) swarm that we put into a national hive brood box with 11 frames of new foundation, the type with the zig zag wire set into the foundation. Whilst they've drawn out about 8 frames, we moved an empty...
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    When To Add 1st Super

    Hi all, Long time reader... just haven't asked a question before... so Hi! We (me and my girlfriend) started bee keeping about 5 weeks ago (they're technically hers!) with a swarm which we put into a blank hive with 11 frames of foundation in the brood box. On last nights inspection they'd...
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