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Hello, I came back from work this evening to find a swarm by a baitbox at the bottom of the garden, and have been debating wether I should leave them to go in on their own, or knock them into something else. It's getting dark now and they're still hanging outside. Any advice?

Hello, My three hives are all doing it at roughly the same time, which I should have been prepared for, but aren't. One of them is raising a new queen while the old one is in a nuc. Another is split with a snelgrove board, and the two brood boxes are just about due for uniting. I inspected...

Silly me. You can just about see that the zip for my hood is not actually zipped up. At least i got to demonstrate the "lets just walk away while I get the bees out of my hood" technique - only three stings. That Smith frame is a little annoying too. It's the last of the ones from the original...

Has anyone got any links to drone anatomy? I found a dead drone on a landing board at the weekend. It was displaying an unusual structure. I wondered if something that usualy breaks off hadn't for some reason, or if it hadn't got as far as mating. I have photos but need another 4 posts before I...