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I should preface this with saying that up to now we've not been extracting honey in any form other than cut comb so spinning or otherwise isn't really an option (no kit or great desire to do it). We're halfway through this years Apiguard treatment and we took off the supers before the first...

Question: When in the life cycle of a caste being housed do they start polishing cells? Background: Caught a smallish swarm/caste on the 24th May and they've been housed in a Poly Nuke being fed 1:1 syrup. Pretty sure the queen was present as the bees balled under the OMF whilst being collected...

We're in a very sheltered spot and don't suffer from high winds but yesterday we had the lid blown off a poly nuke. So just a reminder to anyone else using them; strap or weigh them down.

A neighbour came round last night asking for help. They're moving house and a swarm of bees had come down their AGA flue and were balling up in the kitchen (the AGA had been turned off for a few weeks so was stone cold). As they were completing today at 12:00 they were in a bit of a tiz -...

One hive threw a cast yesterday (left two queen cells after they swarmed). They sat on a fence post all day, got rained on a couple of times and having seen the nights weather forecast was really orrible I took emergency action. So..... as I'd run out of kit.... who needs Polystyrene hives...

Advice please. Caught a swarm on Saturday from one of my own hives (yes I know... but every time an inspection has been possible time-wise it's been raining or freezing cold :( ). The only kit I had available was a National Super so that's what they ended up in (dummied down to five frames...

Captured a swarm from one of our hives this AM and while going through the mass of bees looking for her Maj, I noticed several drones. Why would drones go with a swarm? Do they just get caught up in the excitement or is there a reason? :confused:

SWMBO 'captured' a swarm on the 20th July that had settled on one of our fence posts;t'was too good an opportunity to miss (I was hundreds of miles away at the time so couldn't help). She did a brilliant job of scooping the whole lot into a spare National we had lying around except that she...

Hello All from yet another been-lurking-for-a-while newbee with questions :lurk5: I really should state right from the off that we're not keeping Bees for the honey production and don't want more than the two hives we've currently got (ha! that's probably discombobulated half the forum :o) so...