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An AF hive issued a medium sized swam at 4.00 pm this afternoon. I calculate the queen hatched between 3-8 days ago, from my records. I left only one queen cell. It settled like an ordinary swam in the top of an apple tree 15 feet up about 20 yards form the hive. I amused it was a cast and I...

I have very swamy bees and have ordered two "better" queens arriving next month, to improve my stock. In the mean time my four colonies wintered well and become very congested, and by mid April I was in damage limitation mode doing AF's and catching swams. As of yesterday I had 9 colonies and...

Completly cought out I went down to do my first inspection 2 days ago, knowing I was late and one hive swarmed on arrival. All four hives are national on a brood and a half and were completely full of bees suffering from congestion. No extra feeding in the winter. A second hive seems to be...

I have a miller feeder that is leaking - what is the best was to seal the seams?

Thank you I knew their would be a simple answer - thank you both for your answers. Andy

I have just extracted six frames with about 20% granulated rape honey stuck in them, caused miss-judging when to take the rape crop off. Can they be returned to a hive for licking out? Or is their a danger of causing granulation of winter stores in the brood chamber? Or should I just scrap...

Books and Stethoscopes "may your bees read the same books as you do" - All I can say is I hope their ancestors were well traveled as I was reading a Russian book call "Bees" by I Khalifman - based on work a the Lenin Academy of Agricultural Science - English edition 1951 - quite interesting...

Thank you for the encouraging and useful information. The bee in the main hive were busy foraging on the rape as 6.30 pm this evening, with the evening sun shining. I have just gone and listen to the hive and can hear a queen piping and as least two queen cell responding. Will keep you...

I the same situation with a twist - drowning queen! I have returned to bee keeping after a brake of ten years . Last July I was given a small cast swam at very short notice, I had no comb and had to build up the colony on very old foundation, and heavy feeding in the autumn and fondant in...