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    can a new queen swarm

    About 3 weeks ago I split my first hive then the original queen swarmed a few days later. We were lucky enough to capture her then put her in a new hive. Now the secrets’ out the neighbours know. This evening from had an urgent phone call from one of my new friendly neighbours saying there as a...
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    some strange larvae thing happening

    Hi all, I’m in my second year opened my hive today to find plenty of bees. In fact the super had about 9 frames full with some capped and uncapped honey. Treated the girls last year for Varroa and the floor was looking very clear when I took off the mouse guard. That’s by way of background...
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    Supers on or off?

    This being our first year have loads of questions. The current quandary is? As we get ready for the autumn we’re now treating the brood box for Varroa. We took off 5 frames for harvesting leaving 5 capped frames on the super, leaving the queen excluder in place. Do we leave the super on over...
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    bees clustering outside hive?

    Hi all, We took delivery of our first nuc at the beginning of June. Since then all has been good. In fact so good they hardly ate the sugar syrup. We put a super on about the early part of July. We went away for two weeks came back on Sunday and checked the hive on Monday. The Broodbox was...
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