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I'm selling my over wintered colony in a national hive, included in the sale is two supers, the brood box, floor, gabled roof, queen excluder and crown board. It's a strong colony that's building up well.£250 I'm selling as I don't have time to look after them due to work commitments and I've...

I have an over wintered colony for sale. The colony is in a national hive and includes two supers, queen excluder, crown board, floor and a gabled roof. It's a strong colony that is building up well. £250 I'm selling the colony as I'm struggling to find the time to look after them due to work...

I carried out an AS last saturday and the books I have say after a week I need to move the parent colony to the other side of the original site so the foragers find their hive gone and move to the nearest one. As the weather is not very good not many bees are out flying so I am wondering...

I extracted some honey at the beginning of the week and there was some set honey in the frames, I was wondering if this was as edible as runny honey to the bees over winter as I am putting the supers back on the hive for the bees to clean up. Will this reduce the amount of food that I would...

I had a queen hatch out nearly three weeks ago and I looked in my hive today and I couldnt find the queen and there is no eggs or brood anywhere in the BB, but there is a lot of pollen and honey in the brood frames. How long should I leave the hive till I do anything ? At the moment I only...

I was just reading the thread about a stolen queen and was wondering what other beekeepers do to protect against or prevent thefts from their apiaries. Has anyone ever tried using a lock and a chain or something similar so you cant open the hive, I know its not its not going to stop the most...

My bees swarmed last thursday and i went through the hive looking for a queen but there was not one. I then got rid of the remaining queen cells except the largest one. Today I looked in on them and there was more sealed queen cells, and the queen cell I left from last week looked like the...

My bees swarmed last week, I think Wednesday or Thursday and I missed it. I was a couple of days late with my weekly check and when i went through them late thursday afternoon I found 5 sealed queen cells and the original queen had gone along with some of the bees. I looked through my books...

This is my first year keeping bees I got a nuc late last year and after returning from Stoneleigh this afternoon I carried out my weekly check on my hive and at first I thought I had queen cells present but after checking some pictures online and in books they were drones cells (I think), the...