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National Hive. Five frames of sealed brood with very little larvae/eggs. Three frames of drawn comb with nectar and some capped honey. One half drawn frame of nectar/pollen. Two frames of undrawn foundation. Should I add a super? I would have normally thought it a little early (am I wrong...

Which glue should I use to glue wood to polycarbonate? I bought a national polycarbonate crown board. However, my hives are all top bee space and the crown board I bought is bottom bee space. So, I made a new frame for the polycarbonate. I did not mind doing this as now I can include a small...

I have two Milner feeders I need to re-seal. What do I use to do this? Sent from my GT-I9300 using Tapatalk

How long will it usually take for a year old queen to lay after having been AS'd? She stopped laying a week before I spotted Queen cells. Then I popped in today (4 days after doing the AS) and she is there but there are no eggs yet. I don't know what is normal. I think I might have been...

Yesterday I caught a cast swarm from an AS I did a few weeks ago. I must have missed a queen cell. I put them in a nuc hive which can hold five frames. I only put two frames of foundation in for them to get started on. Today there are a few bees flying in and out so I assume they are staying...

I have just spotted a couple of play cups with eggs, not charged with any jelly though. Does this mean anything conclusive or is it just the usual style play cup behavoiur of keeping them ready for when they decide to make decisions?

If I want to convert a bottom bee space brood box to a top bee space is it simply a matter of adding a 6mm strip of wood around the top? Assuming that I am never going to put anything under it apart from aan open mesh floor or maybe a temporary set up for uniting.

I want to unite my weakest hive (very small colony with this year’s queen, laying ok) with one of my other hives (last year’s queen who swarmed this year, fantastic layer). I read on Cushman’s website that it can be done with newspaper and just leave the two queens to sort themselves out. This...

I get the impression that a lot of people do not use top ventilation if they are using open mesh floors. If this is the case then what is the purpose of the ventilation in the roof of many hive designs? Is it just a design feature when solid floors and top ventilation are used? I am asking...

Where is the best place to get a poly nuc online? A national nuc hive.

When is the usual time to harvest any honey and then begin feeding in Northern Ireland (or similamicro climate)?

One of my hives just threw out a cast swarm a hour or so ago. I am trying to catch it and put it in a five frame nuc. My question is (if they stay in the nuc) where will I put them? Beside the original hive? Anywhere in the apiary? At an out apiary? Any more wisdom and reasons would be...

Thought I would try and make a couple of nucs. I am beginning to learn, the hard way, that you can never have too much equipment. It's a six frame nuc My second attempt is a work in progress.....a five frame nuc.....

Last night we heard tooting from a hive where a swarm had left (a week after an artificial swarm was carried out. By my calculation the oldest she could possibly be is 18 days old today which makes sense for the tooting after emerging yesterday. However, just now I observed lots of bees at the...

Does anybody know where I can get cheap jars in northern Ireland. There are some good prices on some websites but delivery charges make the cost unworkable.

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A week ago (last Saturday) I inspected my hive and broke down a couple of play cups along the bottom but then I found one queen cup at the bottom of a frame which was charged with royal jelly. I could not see a larva in it but that does not necessarily mean there was not one present. I broke...

Can the distance between the old and new hives in an Artificial Swarm be 4 meters?

I am a complete beginner to beekeeping and got my first hive two months ago. The mite drop was very small at first but then as the bees began to increase during spring the drop count exploded from only a few to loads. I also began noticing dead bees at the front of the hive about a month ago...

I am a novice and have a question that sounds stupid. However,i am told that there is no such thing as a stupid question. If I want to move bees from an old hive into a new hive (same hive type), is is simply a matter of putting the new hive in the same sopt as the old one and moving the...