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Very warm on Sunday following a pretty warm week in wilsthire so I used hive clean in two overwintered poly nuc's that were quickly filling with brood. I had treated in autum and Jan... but decided to do hit the b&%£$ before moving them into hives. Anybody else treated other than via oil...

I've gone queenless on 1 colony...... dooommeed. Anybody know of any late, late queens?

Hi, I have a nuc set up in late June with the intention of over-wintering, this one has always been a little weak with a rather small very dark queen, with a bit of extra feeding and placing brood from another hive early on there are plenty of bees and she has been laying. On inspection of...

The local nectar flow is good, the banks of the river avon in this area are covered in HB, anyhow I put 1500ml into my 2 paynes poly nucs. Plenty of stores being built up in both, I was even toying with the idea of pulling one and getting some honey out of it but thought it was worth doing. As...

Noticed I don't react to bee stings as much...my stock as morphed into typical mongrel buckfast's now, but I had a couple of carnie colonies when I started and I got whacked a few times and they flaming hurt like hell. Now either I am becoming more tolerant of the sting or I wondered if...

Hi Question to those with more knowledge, I have a over wintered nuc which I re-homed into a BS hive in April, wasn't expanding very well so still loads of room and this colony are very passive so I was keen to keep it, queen is un-marked and I do fail to find her during inspections sometimes...