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Hi, I have checked my AS hive (old queen and flying bees) and there are mainly drones and the frames are dotted with drone cells. I am going to put in a test frame can I just check I have this right. I shake the bees off a frame from other hive, a frame with eggs in I then place it in the...

A swarm I caught and hived in May left the following day and have not been seen since. But.. lately at night in bed I have been hearing a tic tic tic noise in the skeeling above my head. I had a look yesterday and could see insects flying in by our chimney tiles, from a distance they look like...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-13942849 I saw this on the front cover of our local newspaper today, What a shock! Poor people, It was their own bees.

Hi, I have a new swarm in a box in the shed, picked up today in my parents garden. I am going to leave them in the shed tonight and hive tomorrow. They have 2 frames with them, what would be the best method to hive them in the morning? lift them in on a frame or tip them out and let them walk...

On Friday i did my first AS and seems successful, even though they swarmed 2 hours after the AS and then returned to the hive and have stayed put since. Today I thought both hives were going to swarm again, but could not think of a reason. The air was thick with bees and they were flying...

I checked the frame with the queen on and did not find any queen cells. I also put in a frame of stores (no queen cells) next to the frame + queen, filled the rest up with new foundation but at exactly 1.35 pm ( the same time as the 2 previous days) they swarmed for 10-15 mins then returned to...

After two failed swarms (they returned to the hive) and not finding the queen yesterday evening, we have now found and moved the queen into a new hive positioned on the old site. All flying bees are returning to the new hive and the bees from the old hive on the new site are looking a bit miffed...

Just as I arrived back from hospital having broken and mashed my finger shutting it in the car door (don't ask) I was greeted by the sight of a huge beautiful swarm emerging from my hive...... Very excited i grabbed my camera and filmed them and then tried to work out how to rehome them, but to...

I am sorry I can not post photos but my camera is at work. I have inherited a WBC Hive, it has confused my simple mind! The outside lifts are oblong with the short side at the front the square brood box inside measures just under 13inches each side. ( I think there are 10 frames (can't quite...

My Gals have finally decided to touch the sky! What a treat when I came home from the school run to find my back garden full of happy buzzing, they all look very purposeful Joy Joy Joy Clare

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZEoAMfRICM this is really interesting xxxxx Clare

Hi the WBC felt light last week so put on some fondant, posh stuff from Paynes how will they know it is there? will they find it in this cold if they are all clustered Worry worry worry worry worry worry worry worry worry Clare

I am just readying them for winter One July nuc is in a wbc brood box, I have been feeding and a few weeks ago there were 8+ full frames of capped stores, very little brood during the apiguard treatment and now I want to leave them alone for the winter. This weekend I will take off the rapid...

Well looks like I didnt get the balance right....... have finished the apiguard, fed throughout and now there are only small patches of brood on 4 out of the 8 full frames in the bb of my wbc the rest of it appears to be mainly capped stores, I have been feeding syrup through the rapid feeder...

I have recently put on a perspex crown board so I can peek into the hive, very interesting!! Yesterday I showed a friend (ex beekeeper) the hive and we had a look in through the perspex. My friend commented on how "Slow" they were moving about, they were really just standing still on the frames...

I have just had a look at the debris on the tray under my OMF I am treating with apiguard. After 7 days I have found about 20 mites, a couple of ants, lots of beautiful flakes of wax and lost/fallen pollen what are the black small rectangles? why are there so many individual bee legs? Cheers Clare

Hi I want to put a see through cover on my national, which doesn't have a crown board!! Can anyone see a problem with cutting perspex to size drilling a hole in the middle for the feeder/escape? I have been trying to buy a glass quilt for the hives but they are sold out everywhere. Hubby is on...

I have a nucleus that has now filled 7 frames in my wbc, is there any point in putting on a super, I have one with about 6 drawn frames, they are so busy on the heather about 1/2 a mile away it may be a shame to miss out What do you think Cheers C:willy_nilly:lare...

Wow they live up to their names! My bees have been pretty much ignoring my ice cream tub feeder, I thought they were just not hungry but after putting in my new feeder they have gone bonkers for it!! after 1 hour it was about 2 cm down!!! and you can see through the cover their little tongues...

I have had a new nuc for 4 weeks now, they are very busy and have just started collecting white pollen (any ideas what that is from? we are on the edge of the Ashdown Forest in Sussex lots of heather there) On the same day that I collected my nuc I also caught a swarm, they flew straight into a...