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Hello everyone. I have 2 questions which I'm after some advice on please: 1 - I had an aggressive colony which I wanted to requeen. I killed the old queen, split into 2 nucs and introduced a mated queen into one of them. The mated queen appears to be laying fine after a week and I'd like to...

Has anyone had experience with this and if so any tips? Cheers.

Hi all. What's the erratic bee towards the bottom of the screen up to? http://tinypic.com/player.php?v=2h2ksbd%3E&s=8#.U8pC_41dXU4 Anyone seen this kind of behaviour before?

Hiya. I'm after a bit of advice for another swarm I collected recently. These are the facts: - Swarm picked up 4 days ago in a polynuc - Dribbled oxalic after day 3 - Day 4 lots of bearding - Temperature today 26 degrees I'm pretty sure she's a virgin queen but I don't want to open the...

I picked up a swarm earlier and want to put it in a hive that it probably came from. I going to struggle to find time to do it tonight or tomorrow morning but don't want to miss the chance to move it 20 metres down the road. So my question is... How long can I leave it before the flying bees...

I'm sure I've done something wrong here but can't put my finger on it... Basically I tried to unite a queenless colony and a strong artificial swarm I made a couple of months ago. The artificial swarm had a laying queen (made from a QC in the spring) and already had a super added. The...

It seems the swarm I collected 6 weeks ago has swarmed from again their new hive. It was checked today and there are sealed and unsealed queen cells and no sign of the queen. I left it as is and plan to go back tomorrow morning. I accept I made a mistake by not spotting the queen cell that...

Can anyone tell me what's happened to this bee? http://postimg.org/image/7c8l4eegz/

I made an artificial swarm the other day and have a feeling that things aren't quite right...There doesn't seem to be enough 'flying bees' in the original hive and the bees that are in the old box in the new position seem reluctant to leave the hive at all. It's now a week since the split and...

Has anyone ever tried using a 14x12 brood box as a super? Besides the obvious drawback of it being heavier, what are the pros / cons? I'd be interested to hear the members opinions. Cheers

Hi all. I'm pretty new to all this and didn't realise that the etiquete was to post here first. So, sorry about that and hello. I'm a Welshman based in London and looking forward to getting a few hives here after picking up beekeeping in NZ.

Hi I'm based in East London and I'm hoping to get up to 10 nucs of for spring 2013 - preferably as early as possible. They would need to be placid bees as they're for my friends gardens. I'm also open to the possibility of buying complete colonies depending on the price and the nature of the...