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I was given a swarm back in May this year, and it has since built up really well on a brood and a half. I even got about 13 jars of honey from them. I opened the hive yesterday to feed them some more sugar syrup, and was really surprised at how many bees there are. Even before I opened the...

Although I've been keeping bees for about 2 years, this season is my first for actually getting some honey out. I extracted in early September, then filtered using a coarse kitchen sieve. And the result was 13 jars' worth of honey. I'd now like to filter again using finer sieves, and muslin. As...

My colony swarmed on Thursday 10th May, and fortunately I was able to collect it, and put it into a new brood box, with new frames (undrawn foundation) on the original site. On Friday 18th May, just 8 days later, it appears that they tried to swarm again (I was at work, but my neighbours said...