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    Combining colonies after vertical split

    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...
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    Combining hives

    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...
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    Be Boles

    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
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    Queen excluder

    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...
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