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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...

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

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...