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    Re-queening advice

    I left my hives 3 weeks from the earliest I knew I had a hatched virgin queen in each before I looked for brood. It can take that long for a queen to mate and start laying. Others will comment but you need to be really sure you are queenless before you buy in queens - can you put in a test...
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    Honey bees and children?

    I have two hives at the end of our garden (100ft), we started off with one but did a recent split. My daughter is 9 and started off doing the bees with me, she has her own suit and knows the different casts of bees and all about inspections. She did her recent Brownie Hobby badge on...
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    Are your bees making honey?

    Nothing from my two yet. Both headed by newly mated queens and building up. Only one full super but that is a mixture of stores from overwintering and honey so won't be extracting that :-( one super starting to be drawn out and filled though :-)
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    Virgin Queens and inspections

    Opened both my hives up yesterday and found worker brood and larvae in both hives. Very happy as both hives have mated queens. Lots of bees, one a lot happier to be looked at than the other, lol. Lots of stores, well done girls - now start making a bit of honey for me ?
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    swarm

    Sounds okay to me, but someone else might think differently not worthy
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    Harmless insecticide??

    Am I misreading this then? It reads to me that they will use a harmless method OR a pyrethroid spray - doesn't sound to me that the pyrethroid is harmless!
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    Queenless Colony - How long will they last?

    You don't know yet that there isn't a virgin queen in the second swarm. If it is a cast from the original I doubt they would have departed without a queen. You need to give her a few weeks to mate and come into lay, if no eggs or larvae then you can test for queenlessness by putting in a test...
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    Uniting hives without finding the Queen

    What about putting a queen excluder on top of a brood box, add an empty super and shake the bees onto the queen excluder. Smoke them down and you should be able to find the queen that can't get through the qe.
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    June Gap?

    Ditto and my lavender seems to be attracting more bumble bees than honey bees :rolleyes:
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    NBU - Disease Alert!

    Okay thanks - hope it doesn't make it way over here :eek:
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    NBU - Disease Alert!

    I thought they only destroyed for AFB and could treat EFB or did I get that wrong?
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    How long to inspect a hive

    You need to go in with a purpose : What am I looking for? For instance my "inspection" today lasted all of one minute on each hive - I have virgin queens in both my hives and do not want to mess with them so only took the roof off and the crownboard to check the frames on the super were being...
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    Dud queen cells?

    Just to add that if you do have a virgin queen in there rather than a mated queen then it can take several weeks for her to show evidence of laying. As already mentioned you need to put a test frame in to check that you do not have a virgin queen already running around.
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    Honey in supers - now what?

    So will it be alright to leave it in for the summer in case they need it though - the super that is very heavy will definatly have a lot of sugar syrup in it and they had it on as brood and a half over the winter before so really don't want to extract that honey:cool:
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    Honey in supers - now what?

    Hadn't thought of it from that side, I work in a school so in theory it should be a good time as I am off for the week, however two young children as well so we are away camping for the week.
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    Honey in supers - now what?

    I have one super that had stores from the winter - sugar syrup and probably some OSR honey in there as well now, which is starting to be capped on last look. I have also put on another super on each of my two hives with foundation being drawn out. Last look a few days ago they had only started...
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    caught swarm advice on whats next plse

    Okay I get it - that explains a bit what mine are currently doing :rolleyes:
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    caught swarm advice on whats next plse

    Why do they do that? Or is there no reason!
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    Queen off on mating flight?

    I'm sure I read somewhere that she is ready to fly 5 days after emerging from cell.
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    My swarmed colony keeps creating Queen cells

    My understanding is that if it is supercedure you just let the queen cell hatch and the new queen will either fight with the old or coexist with her. On that basis I would leave a good queen cell and get rid of the others. If it is supercedure rather than swarming you can leave them to it...
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