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I put clearing boards with rhombus escapes on both my colonies yesterday morning with a shallow home made eke underneath each clearing board, to allow the clearing bees space to disperse. Both colonies have 2 supers which need to come off. Last year I did this and 24 hours later the supers were...

As title - at what point would you requeen if bees followed you away from the hive (after an inspection or other disturbance) I have one hive that is a tad grumpy/pingy and I always get a few determined guards following me away from the apiary towards my car, only 2 or 3 and they generally give...

I've got a mate who has asked if I can get some propolis for her. I bought one of the flexible mesh screens from CWJ, but I'm uncertain about the best time to put it on or indeed where to put it on. I'm running Nationals with standard bottom bee space. If you've used screens, where do you put...

This year both my colonies have seemed reluctant to move stores upstairs. The smaller colony which I split from the main one has only got about 2 frames filled in the super, but the brood box has about 5 frames which are totally filled with capped honey. I did try bruising some but all they did...

My bees are kept near to a farm. I walked over some of the land yesterday with hubby because there's a field of sunflowers which he wanted to photograph. I noticed that 2 large fields had been planted with peas and what looked like broad beans, but the plants have now mostly died off without any...

I've got only about half a super of capped honey on my hive which I want to take off this weekend before starting Apilife Var, and before the bees start filling the remaining super frames with ivy which is just about to start here. I want them to put any ivy into the BB for their own winter...

Forgive me for sounding like the noob I am but I'm a little confused about the variety and differing prices of available suits. At the moment I have a basic thick cotton smock with a zip off fencer style hood, I wear this normally with ordinary trousers/jeans and a pair of baggy lightweight...

I haven't nailed anything yet in case it's wrong, but this flat pack super didn't come with instructions, and the PDF I downloaded from Maisem*re isn't completely clear to me. side view (sloping bit at the bottom, sloping down and outwards presumably to shed water) top view, 7/16" between...

I put a super of foundation on a few weeks ago with one of the plastic QX (the ones that are just flat with no frame). I have a standard National with bottom bee space. I checked a few days later and there were only about 20 bees in the super and no attempt had been made to draw foundation. As...

Does anybody in the Fareham, Gosport or Portsmouth area have a spare corner in their apiary where I can keep one National hive please? please forgive me if this is a faux-pas because of quarantine etc as i am not sure how these things work. If you are prepared to help me out then of course you...

As today is sunny I did a quick check on the hive to see if they had taken their syrup (they had) and if they had finished drawing out all the foundation in the BB (they hadn't). I pulled out the bottom board to shake off the debris and there was a bit of green mould along with a dozen or so...

Hi New keeper here in Hampshire. I just picked up my 6-frame nuc at the end of last week. After putting them into the hive I put on one of the round top feeders with 1:1 syrup. I dribbled a little bit of syrup down the hole in the cover board so they knew where it was. Yesterday I checked and I...