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So 2nd year of beekeeping and details from my course are a little fuzzy so I have a question for the more experienced. My bees do not seem to have woken up to the fact that the sun is out and it is quite warm (fluctuating between 11-15 degrees over the last week and a half). Very little flying...

All the celandines are flowering right next to my hives - I read that bees love the pollen from these plants and yet mine are totally ignoring it - in favour of the gorse which again is flowering prolifically a little further away. Do bees like celandine or have I read some misinformation?

I have been following all the recent threads and discussions about moving your hive less than 3 miles and the chance of higher success when the weather is cold. It still hasn't get really cold down here (North Cornwall/Devon) just really wet. They are not flying in this weather - should i hold...

As a new bee keeper I am aware that numbers drop off from summer to winter. Is this just because the summer bees die or does the queen stop laying? Looking through my friends bees today there appeared to be a number of bees that looked as if they were either dead in the cells/just hatching (this...