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Hi, I took on a friend's old hive recently which is good and strong but needs a bit of a 'tidy up'. The brood chamber has a a queen excluder on top and I've noticed that the chamber is missing about 3 or 4 frames. The bees have filled in that gap with 'wild comb', i.e. not in frames, which is...

Hi, I have my bees on a community site which is having an open day this weekend. There'll be kids and general public around. Not thinking it will be overly busy but I'll be doing talks to groups of folk etc. I've suddenly had a fear that I should have an epipen at the ready in case some gets...

Hi, My lone hive looks to be doing really well, the brood chamber is very busy and the super is filling up. I have enough equipment for a second hive so I'm wanting to split the first (thinking I might then have two hives next year and less chance of a swarm this year!) Can I ask: Is it too...

Hi, I have an amount of honey which is not really sellable so I was looking to make it into a winter feed. I've seen recipes for mixing icing sugar into the honey to make a fondant. It pretty much says to just add the sugar until the mixture becomes the desired texture. Has anyone any...

Hi, We have quite a mass of honey and wax which is mushed & mixed togethor. I'm hoping to separate it all out so I can use the honey as feed through the winter. The mush is inches thick so although I have put a tray of it in the hives the bees can only really clean off the surface of the mush...

Hi, We're just extracting a super which has quite a lot of wax moth larvae (I think) across the frames. They're quite big larvae (big enough to send my wife running from the kitchen) and there's dust & white 'web' around the area they're at. Is it OK to just cut out the affected areas and...

Hi all, Can I ask if there's a recommended way of putting empty frames into a super without using foundation? I did it last year but I ended up with about 40% of the comb going across the frames which made for a difficult extraction! Thanks very much!

Hi, We extracted a super today and now have the situation of our strong hive not having any supers while our weaker hive has two half-capped supers. I was looking at moving one of the weaker hive's supers onto the stronger hive to let them finish capping it and to alleviate the burden on the...

Hi, hope you can help.. I had a swarm last weekend which I caught and put in a second hive (my first catch - what a great experience!). Problem is, they've swarmed again today! This time the swarm is too high up in a hawthorn tree (the same tree as last weekend's) so I think I'm going to have...

Hi All I've recently received some bees in a Modified Dadant hive and could do with a few pointers as to what I should be doing right now (apart from joining my local association which I will do very soon!) I was just doing a final inspection ready for winter when my next door neighbours...