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I picked up a large prime swarm from a well established feral colony a couple of weeks ago and put them in the out apiary. I inspected them for the first time today. Plenty of sealed brood and eggs, no signs of disease all good apart from the were running all over the comb and they had built a...

Hi, I'm using a swi bine style mating nuc for the first time. Last weekend I put in a cupful of bees, some fondant and a queen in a butler type cage. I've checked today, the bees are still there and are all over the fondant, and I saw the queen the right side of the QX, but they have not started...

I had a strong colony with an unmarked and unclipped 2013 queen that had overwintered on a brood and a half. On 3rd May I conducted as Pagden A/S which went well with the queen on a frame of brood going into a new box on the site of the original with the remaining frames being foundation, a...