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    Swarm? Or not?

    I'm a bit perplexed. Yesterday whilst checking my hives i noticed a few bees flying under the hive. Hive is on a palette, so there's about 20cm of space under it. I got on the floor to look under and to my amazement they've built a whole load of comb under the hive. Is it a swarm (Queen and all)...
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    Bees eating cherries

    Our cherry tree, which is just behind our hives is full of bees apparently eating cherries. The cherries are over ripe and split and the bees seem to be taking in the sugars. I guess I shouldn't be surprised but I've never seen this behaviour before.
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    Swarm conundrum

    About 10 days ago I caught a swarm which I thought was big enough to put into a full size brood box. When I looked the next morning the bees were huddled on 3 frames and I'd obviously miscalculated. Rather than move them again to a nuc, I reduced the box down to five frames and put on a feeder...
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    Any explanation for this behaviour?

    My bees are pretty aggressive most of the time. Not overly so that they are impossible to work, but if you take a little longer with an inspection they let me know they're losing patience. Last Friday I wanted to open up as the next day I was going on holiday and knew that two of my hives needed...
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    Swarms of swarms

    Just picked up and hived yet another swarm (not mine btw). That brings me up to 5 hives and 2 nucs (which are both seriously on their way to being hived in a full size box). What do I do if I get more swarm calls? I don't really want too many hives but I have realised the number of hives you...
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    Honey flow and dearth

    I like to read as much information as I can about anything I do and beekeeping is no different. One thing that keeps coming up when various authors describe various manipulations is the timing of honey flows and deaths. This leads to lines such as "do not do this during a dearth" or "wait a week...
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    Storing honey frames

    I've read in several places that's it's good to store surplus honey frames for times when they are needed. How do you store the frames so that they are at their best when needed?
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    Swarm

    First swarm of the season yesterday! Got a call out from a local farmer. A large swarm on a wooden post about head height. Pretty easy collection, no climbing trees, although the nuc we took was a little small and we transferred them to a full size hive straight away as soon as we got them back...
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    I panicked...

    ...I know you should never panic, but.. I have 3 hives and all are strong after the winter. However one of them is especially strong. On Sunday, I decided to have a closer look. I already have a super on this hive with a QE in between. As I took off the super, bees were everywhere. I then took...
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    Getting bees into a hive.

    I got a call late last season to pick up a swarm. It was late in the season, but the swarm had actually been caught by a janitor in a block of buildings earlier in the summer and he'd put it into a box and put it in the garden. The residents weren't comfortable keeping them though so we were...
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    Lost a hive. Perhaps losing another. Confused.

    I'm a third year beekeeper, and as such still consider myself a beginner. I have 4 hives (well 3 now, but Im clearing to that). Firstly, earlier on this spring, one of my hives seemed to be queen less. No brood, no eggs. I added a couple of frames of brood, with eggs and young larvae about 3...
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    Moving bees

    I recently got two abandoned hives and will be getting a third soon. I installed these in my garden on temporary blocks about 3-4 metres apart. I have since made a base for my hives which is about 2 metres or so long and I wish to move my hives on to it. I have a few questions : 1) If I put the...
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