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  1. SugarPlum

    Sawdust type waste in hive

    Thank you. I can't get there until the weekend now, but I will have a closer look and take my camera. No, I don't have my mouse guards on at the mo. :redface:
  2. SugarPlum

    Sawdust type waste in hive

    Oh, right, I didn't think of mice. And I should have really, because the hives are in an allotment. Thanks for that. I will check.
  3. SugarPlum

    Sawdust type waste in hive

    Hi Guys I have 3 hives, 2 of which seem to be doing okay. However, the last hive was weak going into winter and had a high varroa count (the others were virtually clear of it). I have been keeping an eye on them and they seem fairly content, but they are not flying out of the hive when all...
  4. SugarPlum

    Storing frames to protect against wax moth

    Thanks Enrico. I am thinking this might be the answer. The only trouble is that I live in a shoe box with a postage stamp size garden. Where to put the said chest freezer is a problem. I think I'll ask around some friends and see if they have garden space I can use.
  5. SugarPlum

    Storing frames to protect against wax moth

    Can anyone help me please. All my books and google searches say that you should add paradichlorobenzene crystals to the top of a stack of supers over winter to protect against wax moth. I have a hive that has been completely destroyed by wax moth (it was a very weak hive following an AS during...
  6. SugarPlum

    Dead Bees in Cells

    I had a similar problem about a month ago. I thought they were starving, and I asked a more experienced beekeeper to have a look. They agreed. Nothing happened, and nothing happened. Today I checked and the whole hive has been wiped out by wax moth. The nasty webby stuff has completely...
  7. SugarPlum

    Broodless colony advice wanted

    Thanks Silly Bee. That's is my thinking too. I happen to have one other colony that isn't doing too bad at all, so I will move a frame of eggs and larvae over. If there is a queen, then I will have just boosted numbers, if there is no queen they will try and make one. But at least I will...
  8. SugarPlum

    Broodless colony advice wanted

    Hi Easy Beesy, yes, I fully intend to do that! I was originally told I was getting a colony, but then told oops, not so many, just a couple of frames of brood. I will ask the question tomorrow and have a chat with them.
  9. SugarPlum

    Broodless colony advice wanted

    Thanks Enrico. I hadn't thought of that, and it sounds like a good idea. But I think when I next visit I will make sure the queen is in the brood box and move the queen excluder from above the super to below the super and above the brood box. The nurse bees will continue to care for the small...
  10. SugarPlum

    Broodless colony advice wanted

    The bee space is wrong. I have 11 brood frames and 10 super frames, so they don't run staight. This is what makes it so difficult and why I want to get them back on just a brood box. I left the queen excluder off for a week when I added the super (which was originally below the brood box for...
  11. SugarPlum

    no eggs larva or brood,did i do right?

    Hi Meg I have a new "nuc" that has been given to me this weekend. But there is no evidence of any brood. However, when I peeped inside today there was no sign of a queen but lots of fanning bees. In fact I have never seen so many bees fanning before. They weren't noisy or aggressive though...
  12. SugarPlum

    Broodless colony advice wanted

    There are quite a lot of flying bees in the broodless colony, and they seem quite content. So I am assuming there is a queen, although I didn't actually look for one. I thought it might solve two problems at once: (a) ridding the brood and a half colony to just a brood box - which will help me...
  13. SugarPlum

    Broodless colony advice wanted

    I have just obtained a new "nuc" from someone I know (to replace one of my stolen hives). I checked the bees today, and although there are bees flying in and out, there is no hint of brood. My beek friend also checked, in case I missed something, but between us we couldn't find a single egg...
  14. SugarPlum

    Brrod/Super swap for spring

    Okay, thanks Gavin. I will see if I can find the queen and make sure she is in the bottom then, and put the queen excluder above the brood box but below the super. The only other way I could see out of it was to put the supers into a separate nuc box and see if they raised a new queen to keep...
  15. SugarPlum

    Brrod/Super swap for spring

    And just leave the queen laying in both the brood and super frame as she is already doing?
  16. SugarPlum

    Brrod/Super swap for spring

    Brood in super Hi Guys On a similar point, I had my super under the brood box to overwinter. When the weather was warm a couple of weeks ago, I reconfigured and put the brood box at the bottom and the empty super above. I didn't add the queen excluder because we were promised more very cold...
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