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I'm going with the happy dance here

Name and shame! It's the only way this sort of behaviour will be discouraged.

I agree with Chris - I also observed on my double brood colonies the Queen wholly abandoning the lower brood box and moving into the supers to breed.

looks like the inside of a wbc -

No I found it on this website - too much time on my hands at the moment http://www.gbka.f2s.com/news-letters/News_Archives/2005/05-05.htm Cant get the link to copy over

me me me !!!

Tried lots of things to get that perfect cool smoke - going to try puff balls next year - see article What shall I put in my smoker? The Puffball (taken from Curiosities of Beekeeping by L.R.Croft) The Rev. W.C.Cotton (born1814) founded while a student at Oxford, the “Oxford Apiarian...

Many happy returns - this forum is a credit to beekeeping - live long and prosper.

Sorry for your loss but s**t happens. If you have good records or even a good memory look at every aspect of how you arrived at this point and cross off the good and never forgot the bad, next year you will hopefully have less problems.

Watched some late retrievals from the Heather re- orientate themselves to a new home this evening, they were loving it, as was I. I could sit all day and watch them, they just fascinate me. My back garden is used as a nursery with lots of nucs and I sit in it daily watching the collections and...

Is this a joke? Or just spectacularly misinformed.

Spent all day Sunday going round my hives battening down the hatches - hope it's enough it's brewing up a s**t storm out there!!

borrow a national hive and tranfer them into it - strap, seal and transport.

try marigolds or double latex gloving - easier to replace, cheaper and easier to clean

3 weeks should do it

Welcome to the forum vince 20 and welcome to the real world - you want advice. don't expect it wrapped up in nice paper and a bow.

Don't do anything rash and give the poor girl a chance she may just be traumatised. Carry on with normal inspections and report back to the forum with an update next week adding more details on the hive, Queen age etc

A test frame can be used to find out if no Queen is present. A new Queen, drone layer or otherwise will not be replaced.

Hi Melon Most observation hives I have used are made up with three frames, two brood and a super. After a few years of use I had one made up more to my liking. It is basically a five frame nuc box with a single frame observation glass panel on the top. It is quite a bit more sturdy and can stand...

My last resort for finding shy mag's is to brush off all the bees on to a q excluder and smoke them down on to fresh comb. It's rough but as I say it's a last resort.