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I set up my first nuke with queen cell (not that close to hatching on 9th May. Left them in a cool dark stable for 4 days and then put them out in a far corner of my paddock.I opened the door the next day. To my delight the bees were coming and going and after a week late I opened up and saw...

i opened my hives on friday to have a look at them and add some fondant and pollen supplement. i have three hives. the first is the original colony i adopted when we bought the property. they had a drone laying queen which i replaced but they never really got going before winter and didn't suck...

I have been waiting all winter for a cold snap to enable me to move two of my hives approx 100m from my garden to the adjacent field. I am wondering if this cold (ish) period we are coming in to will be ok to do it now. I am in central Shropshire. Any thoughts? ps I don't want to move them 3...