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I did a vertical split a week ago for swarm prevention, the bottom box has the Q and the top the brood separated by a super. I inspected yesterday and the top box had several QC as expected. Two of these I have put in a queen less hive the others I dispatched. There is still quiet a lot of...

It will be a shame to lose Park beekeeping, if I'm not buying too much I can cycle there which saves postage and gives me a trip out

So ,am I right in thinking the flying bees I have moved are effectively "locked in " between the QE and paper underneath them and the crown board above them? Consequently the only way out is by chewing through the paper ( by which time they will have forgotten their original home)

Folks, I'm anticipating having to combine two of my colonies and dispatching the queen in the weaker. The hives are at other sides of the garden, about 20 foot apart. Do I move the colony with the Q I retain to the other or vice versa, and what happens to the flying bees from the hive that has...

My wife grows several perennial salvia and the blue varieties seem to be loved by honey bees, she also has red ones but they are not as popular

Thought these pictures may interest people. They were taken in a walled garden at West Hall Pleasaunce, Eltham the site of an old Tudor building

I've checked my QE and cannot turn it round so the slots are in line with the frames as it then does not fit (there is a gap around the super) . Mine is a WBC Hive, is there a version of the slotted steel QE specifically for a WBC hive, I'm thinking that I have the National version?

Oops , I didn't know there was a right or wrong way round, something to check next time I open up

Thanks, I've read the threads as you suggest, I'll get my tape measure out next time I open the hive.

The bees trapped were all workers. I would be surprised if the excluder was out of tolerance it's brand new !!! The way I have installed it the excluder lies flat on top of the frames in the brood box is this correct?

I have a WBC hive and added a super last week putting the queen excluder on top of the brood box. The queen excluder is the slotted steel type with no frame. Yesterday when I inspected after the super had been on for a week I found several (about 15) dead bees that seemed to have got trapped...