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Hi, I am attempting to practice dissection to expose the 1st thoracic trachea to look for evidence of acarine infestation. My problem is 50 % of the time when removing the head I also remove the trachea leaving exposed only the flight muscles or torn trachea. If I manage to remove the head...

Just doing some studying on feeding and wondered why you feed 2:1 strength syrup during a bailey comb change to encourage bees to draw wax but 1:1 strength syrup to a swarm ( after 2-3 days ) to encourage wax drawing.

Attached are photos to go with earlier post asking does anyone know why bees would cap over empty cells? Hopefully photos attached this time! Tried to attach them but only seem to be able to upload one to a post.

Hi, I have been a member of my local BKA for 3 years and have had bees of my own for 18 months. I split my one colony earlier in the year so now have 3. All are doing well but the smaller of the splits currently has 5 seams of bees and 4 with emerging brood. They are dummied down to 8 frames...

Yesterday inspected my queen less hive on day 7 to check for emergency queen cells of which there were 4 sealed, one unsealed and 5 queen cups of which I am sure 2 were charged having royal jelly and a larva in. As the colony was large I decided I would make up a nuc with a frame containing 2 of...