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Due to the arrival of a baby son I am selling my colony of honeybees. They over wintered well, are headed by a 2010 currently laying Queen. Capped brood, larvae, eggs, good stores across the frames. The sale is 10 frames of 14 x 12 honeybees + laying Queen for £150 Nr Ashford, Kent. Buyer...

The bees are nice and active foraging frequently in warm weather over the last few days, yesterday they were busily fanning the hive in the afternoon. There was an interesting rustling or crackling noise coming from the porch area of the hive, does anyone know the source of the sound? It’s not...

Yesterday during a warm spell, I saw what I thought was swarming behavior, can someone advise? Approximately fifty bees collected on the porch, with a further fifty circling above, but also a number were doing the initial circling flight, increasing to a few hundred in 30 minutes. Rain stopped...