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Because some of the frames are in poor condition and a few years old. I guess you just mean swap the old ones out few at a time???

Any advice on doing a bailey exchange on a double brood hive??

Don't rise to him,it's not worth it.

Looks like what has happened, found the unmarked queen and loads of pissed off bees but that's nowt new. So was a virgin queen present at time of introduction.

I contacted seller today they were insistent that my colonies must not have been Q- and to return marked Q if not happy... I will say that he was too busy doing something else and wasn't bothered in talking to me. Going to have a look if it's the supplied queen today. Anyone posted a queen...

Wow that's not what I expected, I bought 2, 1 into a nuc and nothing,1 into a Nat brood which took 3 weeks, so your saying she was not mated and has mated with the drones around??? Thats not good as I'm trying to improve temperament as on an allotment and they're a bit tetchy to say the least....

I bought them as mated queens

Better late than never Hi can anyone tell me why it has taken nearly 3 weeks for a mated queen to start laying????

Thanks all for your reply's, you've all set my mind at rest again. Mine are similar to those in the monster photo but less colour than those, it's like they they are in sepia... I thought it might of been something to do with chalk brood as there has been a bit in this colony, but I'm still a...

Hi all Had a read on the forum but couldn't find anything relevant. I have a colony of bees of which there are several that are really light brown in colour, im not just talking about the abdomen and the normal colour veriancies but the head,thorax everything seems a very light brown...

Is it just a quick spray over the tops of the frames or take frames out?

When is the best time to cull all emergency queen cells, I AS'd Saturday and the larva was about 3 day or 6days from laying. I'm sure I've read somewhere about two days before emergance, Thanks once again for info it's good for us beginners

Thanks for your replies. When a colony does swarm and the queen leaves what are you left with?half the number of bees and queen cells in the original hive location, just like what I've got... I'm not disagreeing with you i would like to hear about the swarm fever.

On inspection I found charged queen cells so I set up a new hive and placed queen in with a frame of brood and a frame of stores, and in the parent colony (original position) reduced to one queen cell with I larva of about 6 days old.and closed up. I realise this is not a proper artifical swarm...

Hi all , did an artifical swarm yesterday but didn't move parent colony first, so queen is not in original position, but the rest was complete as usual.What would be my option now? Go and swap hives around ??? Thanks

Sorry RAB your right unlike my terminology, but anyway I inspected today and queen cells on both of the test frames I put in(2 hives) any advice. Some of the eggs looked like a day old(end on) will these have been moved by worker bees, I'm just trying to gauge when one queen cell can be left...

Thanks for replies One emerged 23rd and another 29th April. All say leave queen less for four weeks and your dicing with laying workers... You think she's just not mated??

What happens with a virgin queen if she doesn't get mated, and is there a window for this to happen. I currently have two queenless hives going on a month now. I've done some test frames tonight. Let's hope for the best. Thanks.

Nice one thanks for reply What's the " do it quickly all about "??

Hi all Is it possible to unite when a flow is on and supers are on ????? Ps, go steady.....