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We have internet again :) Thank you so much for your help. The bees settled by the evening and seem to be orientation well.

Well i have the foam now and the straps fingers crossed we are all ready to go :)

Thank you Thurrock bees. Rat catcher has also offered to help. Think I will feel more confident with someone around who knows what they are doing ;) I have ordered ratchet ties so hope they arrive tomorrow. Thinking of tying then and blocking them up Tuesday night for relocation Wednesday...

Not sure what happened to my English. If you are around it might be nice to have some support that should say

Thank you rat catcher, if you are around it. I get be nice to have some support for our first time. I have ordered the straps last night so that should be fine. According to google maps our new address is 3 miles as the crow flies :/ hopefully far enough away

Thank you, yes we are on omf and still the one hive. Think I am most worried about blocking it up securely at the moment so I don't end up with a car full of bees

We currently have our bees in my mothers garden down in rochford however she has sold her house and is moving next week. We have also sold our flat in London and moving down to southend next week and can take our bees. We don't know the local association and haven't had to move established bees...

Ahh now worried about my young queen, marked her last week as was the first time we had seen her. She has been mated and laying for a month. Hopefully she will be ok, didn't realise that they could react badly to the marking. We didn't take her off the frame just marked her in position, the...

Just thinking out loud but have you put in a frame of brood from a mild tempered hive, surely if they then raise a Queen from that frame then they will accept it and they will be genetically different. Or have you done this and I have just completely read over it :D

Is that because of the strong menthol smell or am I missing something? It is currently my lipbalm of choice and so far no problems although will err on the side of caution.

I should add that it was late afternoon when we collected the swarms which from the posts above probably made a difference to the timings.

Hi, When we collected our swarm in a similar way after a couple of hours we had all the bees except for a couple of stragglers. With regards to where to place them, I was on the understanding that a swarms internal compass seems to reset so they should be able to be placed in a hive within the...

I am also new but sure someone with more experience will be along soon. Was there just one QC? Could it have been a supersedure cell rather than a swarm cell?

As a new beekeeper of only a year I am sure someone will correct me but if the bees have destroyed the QC you put in there it sounds like you have a Queen. Could she be a virgin Queen which hasn't started laying. If so she can take a good long time to start laying.

Not having much experience. Personally if the egg was only a couple of days old and you check weekly I would leave it until the next inspection. Queens take 15days to mature so you should have a little grace but it depends if you want to risk it. I am sure someone with more experience will be...

I know on the Urban Beekeeping site they were issuing a starvation warning but this was due to the bad weather a few weeks ago. There are quite a few colonies that I know of which didn't make it through the winter but the bee inspector for the south east is happy for more hobby hives to be...

Our bees swarmed a couple of weeks ago in a tree close to the hive. It was in what appeared to be two clusters one bigger than the other. Throughout the day they did merge into one. I got the impression that the first branch they were on wasn't strong enough to hold them so they gradually moved...