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Hello, I hope you can offer some advice please. I've got two hives, one which is doing very well building up from the winter. Another not so good. The later hive has a queen present, some sealed working brood but also noticed were multiple eggs in cells, some eggs over collected pollen. There...

Hi all, Could anyone suggest and recommend good robust hardware for this please? I see Paynes have something: https://www.paynesbeefarm.co.uk/treatments-supplements/varrox-vaporiser/ But is it any good? Thanks, Jon

Hi all, 2nd year of bee keeping - I used Apiguard last year, all be it a little late. Am I okay to treat my bees with the same items this year, I assume it does not 'expire'? Thanks,

Hi, I will have a couple of 2017 NUCS for sale in a few weeks. £125 for the bees on frames - can deliver if local or £175 in a new poly NUC with frames. The queens are marked, laying well and from early on this year. I have two currently :) Jon

Hello :) My artificial split bees, which had reared their own queen decided to swam today and I'm not exactly sure why. I'd completed an artificial queenless split about a 1.5 months ago and the colony was in a 6 frame NUC. They reared their own queen, and though I'd seen no eggs seemed happy...

Hi guys, I have 3 great sealed queen cell which I have no use for - they were removed from queenless splits. Right now they are sat not that far away from my AGA, keeping warmish. Is there anything I can use them for, mini nucs for an example or should I destroy them? Thanks,

Hi guys, When doing a queenless split I've read in numerous places that you should remove all but 1 or 2 of the queen cells, leave them then check for a laying queen. What would happen if you didnt do this, would you end up with cast swarming? The reason for asking is that I've just completed...

Hi Everyone, I completed a queenless split on the 11 April, placing bees, unsealed brood, food stores and capped brood in to a Nuc. I managed the queen cells made, leaving only one. On the 30 April I was lucky enough to see the queen starting to hatch - (I had to check because I was away with...

Hi guys, Can you help advise if this looks like a supersedure cell please? It is smack bang in the middle of the frame, at the very top and it is occupied. The queen in the colony is from 2015. This is the only queen cell in the hive, having split this colony about 3 weeks ago they have...

Hi all, This is my first wintering of bees, they were fed a lot with suger and water and given fondant around September time. Just checked them today and they are not active at all (normal I assume), you can hear the buzz of the bees but no where near as much as you could in the height of...

... With the bees, they have fondant. Do I just leave them and hope for the best? I know some insulate hives, I have not. They had a good stock of suger and water leading up to this colder spell. Thanks, Jon

Hi, I have two hives, both fairly well established and produced a lot of honey this year. Both hives have 2-3 full frames of honey left in their supers. What exactly should I be doing this time of the year, in order to give them the best shot over winter? I've bought some straps for the...

Hi all, I'm quite new to bee keeping still, doing a 7 day inspection on both of my hives. As the number of bees are increasing, I'm finding it harder to actually see the frames, to spit the queens cups to get rid of them... Any tips please, yesterday they seemed quite annoyed at me trying to...

Hi all, I opened up my entrance so almost removing the restricting bar due to recent congestion. I noticed a lot of bees at the entrance during the rain, covering the entrance area some over spilling (20-40) to the outside. Is this normal?

... And I did not die, so I am on to a winner. However I seems to have come out in a rash around my neck 5 minutes or so after the event. I was told how to deal with a sting, I did not act upon this advice; panic set in trying not to drop the frame I was holding and I rubbed on the sting area...

Hi guys, I'm new here, just had a new hive of bees recently installed, it has been in place about 7 days now. The bees seem happy, gathering food. I did my first inspection on Friday and noticed a few 'play cups', today I had another look at the bees and found a 'play cup' with an egg in the...

Hi all, As the sun was out today, I started clearing where I want to keep my bees in the future, here are a few photos. Let me know what you think, how I can improve on everything etc. I will be planing some more plants to fill the gaps in the hedge, it is quite exposed to the winds, fields...

Though I have kind of done this 'hi' in my first post. My names is Jon and I'm based in South Sleaford. Looking to get in to bees and I now have the land and space for them. Looks like a great forum, looking forward to learning a lot and making some new friends. :)

Hi, I am new here, I have 0.1% by the way of knowledge most on here have about bees. I know they fly and produce honey, after that it gets a little more convoluted. I am looking to get some hands on experience with bees, or at least to see a set up, having looked local clubs run training in...