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Thanks for the recommendation. About the confusion, we are building a warre hive but it isn't finished. We got the call about the bees unexpectedly and had to put them in a national hive that was ready. Sorry, new to beekeeping and have taken a course recently. Taken out the honey..

Thanks for all the advice!. Really gutted about having given them dodgy food. @Drex, the swarm was captured that morning by beekeepers on emergency call out in Edinburgh. We have a book - the peoples hive by Warre - but it is rather ambiguous. Can you recommend any easy to follow books?

The honey we fed them is shop bought. We dont have another hive, this is our first! We assumed honey from a shop would be better for them than sugar. It has been cold and damp for some days. Also, we are about 300m in altitude (although very sheltered) and the swarm was captured in Edinburgh (at...

Hurm, hope not. The swarm was delivered in a box which was tightly sealed. When we opened the box to put them in the hive they were all sleeping (or at least really quiet) as they were in the box most of the day. They all went into the hive in one go and we got the lid on tightly without any...

Hi, We had a swarm delivered two days ago. We put a honey feeder into a National style hive, took out some of the frames with a solid divider frame to keep the area of frames small for the new colony. Then we put the bees in just before dark. The next day they were busy flying around and...