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I’ve just done a split, and looking to treat for varroa, should I wait until queen cells have hatched or can I put in now. ? Also I have a nuc with, do I put two strips in or just one in a nuc ? some while ago, I’m sure I read you can freeze un used strips 🤔 anyone done this with Apivar ?

Due to bad weather and work, it’s the first time I’ve been though the bees this year, changed to new brood boxes floors etc. I have two hives that did not make it though winter. possibly varroa related. Question is both had two full brood boxes of honey to see them though winter, and some part...

I’ve got a few supers with undrawn foundation, ( never been on a hive ) what best way to store them over winter. And to keep them fresh for next year.

I’ve one colony double brood went queen less about 5 weeks ago, so queen cells nothing, she just vanished. I put a test frame in with eggs and young larvae, again nothing. I’ve been though this colony with a fine comb, there is definitely no queen present. Even the noise they make says no queen...

I’ve a hive that’s could do with extra room, it’s got 2 supers on, so thinking of adding a 2nd BB, do I need to take the supers off and feed then to draw the new frames?

What’s your thoughts on adding supers. Directly above the brood box or over the first super. Or straight on top. reason I ask is. The one above brood box always gets full of pollen, at least the middle 5 frames. I’ve always gone over the BB but it’s got me thinking what other do.

I’m looking to combine two hives, but best way to but a single brood onto a hive with two supers. I can‘t do it the other way round as the single brood is in a different part of the garden, which I use for nucs. Now wanting to combine with a queenless hive.

I’ve heard plenty of times of virgin queens making a piping noise but never an old queen. on inspection yesterday, I came across sealed queen cells and no eggs, I knew they had not swarmed, so finding the queen, I left 1 cell and put here in a nuc. On inspection checking no queen cells going...

with Work and the weather it’s been a nightmare trying to get though the bees, it’s been so cold . I’d done a box and floor change early March, on that brief warm day we had. Yesterday was nice, and I knew one of the hives would be full to busting, and going away in a few weeks I wanted to avoid...

Over the years of having bees, most of my honey comes from Himalayan balsam, which is very light honey, but this year the honey seems dark and strong smelling, Any ideas could be ivy ? Lots of white pollen going in the hives at the moment.

I’ve got one hive on DB and a good colony, I’ve had a super on for 2weeks, when I inspected, no bees in there at al. All foundation none of it touched, I have a few part filled ones I will put in to hope encourage them. But very strange, not one bee in there.

I've just been though this one hive, eggs and sealed drone brood in supers, so at 1st thought laying workers, but having looking in the brood box, i found yes a lot of drone brood but also worker brood, so next thought was queen getting though QE, I found the queen and looking at her she's not...

Having looking into one of my hives I found a colony with so much pollen the queen is laying on about 2-3 frames, some frames are full of pollen others are just patches in-between brood, no full frames for laying, I have taken 2 frames out which were a few year old and getting a bit dark anyway...

About 4 weeks ago, in a rare break in the weather, I did an inspection, all was good, queen laying on 7 frames, so I put on an other brood box and put on some feed, the weather then went like middle of winter again, so not much chance of going into the bees, I checked the feed was being taken...

I'm so frustrated , I really need to go into the bees, only done 1 inspection so far, its just so cold and a icy wind, its about 8c today with a wind chill, I was all planed to have a look, bees were flying the sun was on the hives, I got all my stuff ready , it stated raining clouds rolled in...

Last year I changed jobs,( not because I wanted to ) and its really messed me up with managing the bees, my shift pattens are not constant and my days off can move around as well, last years my beekeeping suffered because of all this moving around with my working hours ( its my job so can't be...

How do you deal with supers full of pollen, the one directly above the BB is rammed with pollen as is the BB, its not just one hive They all storing pollen like mad,Can you extract the honey around pollen ?

I've taken over looking after my brothers bees, its my 1st year on my own only done 1 year helping out, so in at the deep end so to speak. A few of the hives were on double brood, I found the queen and but her in the bottom box then Qx on, just so I could sort out the frames with out disturbing...

Hi all, I'm Jane and I've taken over my brothers forum account, he's left beekeeping and moved away, I've only done 1 session of beekeeping, so pretty nervous, of making mistakes. But I;m sure thats just a learning curve as they say. I'm wanting to change the name on the account but can't find...

I have loads of frames from a shook swarm, I have lots of frames with brood and lots of frames with both brood and honey, and then frames with just honey. Over the years I've just had a bonfire with the brood frames and kept the full honey frames, It does seem a shame to lose all that honey in...