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We started a bailey comb change two weeks ago. Previously we were running on brood and a half and the colony was very strong. I wonder if perhaps we should have performed a shook swarm. Anyway I digress, we wanted to change to 14 x 12 and I thought we could manage this change most easily using a...

We put treated our 2 hives with apiguard 2 weeks ago today, I checked them last week and quite a lot had gone, plus there was a heavy mite drop. We are now due to put on the second treatment and although there will be a window of dry weather this afternoon and tomorrow am, afterwards the weather...

Is it too early to treat with apiguard? We have taken a reasonable crop off so any tainted honey would be left on for the bees anyway.

We have two apparently strong healthy hives, the stronger of the two has 3 nearly full capped supers on. Circumstances dictate that if we are to extract any honey we have a period between 17 July and 10 August when it will be very difficult. My last varroa inspection showed high level of...

We have kept our bees in a college which so far has worked really well - they are in a secure site with good access, lots of forage over most of the year in their grounds, water readily available and the college have been very supportive. However my beekeeping partner who works at the college...

We did our first Artificial Swarm yesterday evening and it all seemed to go well but now I am concerned that we did not do it correctly: 1: We added an extra frame of brood to the new brood box containing the old queen plus the frame she was on (which had stores and some brood) as well as two...

My hive has 5 drawn Hoffman frames which are at least a year old, possibly older but not sure how much since they came with the nucleus colony which I bought last July. The remaining frames are all BS frames with drawn foundation and obviously less than a year old. I have been advised to replace...

Hi everyone I'm just getting ready to put my hive to bed for winter, this is my first year. During the last inspection (late Sept) they had about 6 brood frames of stores, no supers this year since I received the bees quite late. Since then rubbish weather and a family bereavement have meant...

Hi I am a new beekeeper with a colony in another location which is doing well but I am also planning to get a hive in my garden. I have been offered a colony by another beekeeper but he only lives a short distance away. He told me that it would be fine to transfer the bees in the hive if we...

It seems everyone in Cambridgeshire wants bees... I'd better get in line! Just started the CBKA course, looking to get a colony on the go in May/June if there are any Nucs available in the area could you let me know please? Thanks