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Ive had two brood boxes on during the summer to give room for expanding colony and help prevent swarming. Question is do I leave them both on or is there a way to move bees down into first box for the winter

I live in Lincolnshire and there isn't much in the fields for the bees to feed on. Looking elsewhere on forum and it seems its a problem in many parts of the UK when I inspected today there are loads of brood but hardly any honey stores. So to help them along I have given them a 1:1 syrup mix...

I was on the forum last week concerning bearding. The weather is hot but there must be half the colony on three sides of the hive. Decided to have a look this evening and there were several white undeveloped bees on the floor. They were not dead but laid on their backs and moving their legs. The...

Got a swarm about three weeks ago and they seem settled in the hive. When I put them in the brood box I put in two frames of honey on super frames. Looked today and they have built up the two super frames to match brood frames size and there seems to be a lot of drones laid. Do I remove these...

I had a queenless hive so purchased a mated queen she has been accepted into the hive but there isn't any brood frames being drawn and no activity around entrance ie no foraging. The queen is moving around the frames. How do I get things going?

I have a new queen and was wondering if she mates with drones from her hive or other drones on the mating flight ?

I decided to combine my two hives due to one of them being queenless. How long does it take for them to get through the newspaper and move down into the hive with the queen? When should I take the top BB off?

Just done an inspection and put the super below the bb to get the honey moved up ready for winter. However there are no larvae present so I am queenless. Question is...... will I be OK at this time of year without a queen. I did see one queen cell but couldnt tell for sure if it had a grub in it.

Just thinking about winter, how do I get the bees to take the honey from the super down into the brood box so I can remove the super ready for winter?

I have two hives that I have been feeding a 1.1 mixture, but now rapeseed has come into flower in my area and lam guessing my bees are on this, so do I stop feeding them? or continue till the weather improves?

Just been reading up on artificial swarming and one question remains unanswered. The newly hatched queen will be a virgin queen so when does the mating flight take place ?

My brood box is rammed full of the little darlings, they are on every frame, so as a fairly new beekeeper should I place another brood box on or would a super be sufficient for expansion to prevent swarming. Had a good viewing yesterday and no Queen cells seen but many drone cells hanging from...

Thanks for all advice Ive reduced entrance to one bee width, set wasp traps and my bees seem to be on top judging by amount of dead wasps under entrance. Ive found an underground wasp nest which is fairly near to hives. Don't want to use ant powder in case it gets to hive nor dig it up and...

I seem to have wasps and bees in and out of the hive entrance. I am going to open up this evening to see what Ive got. There were loads of windfall apples around the area which Ive cleared as this was the attraction.I have the mouse guard fitted but they seem to be unchallenged. I have a spare...

Just had a look as its a glorious afternoon in Lincolnshire and on the bottom of each frame are large amounts of comb consisting of drone cells both capped and uncapped. There are loads of bees throughout the brood box and last week I put another brood box on so they have plenty of room for...

Guess loads of us have had the first look of the year today and wondered how their bees died. As a new starter I've have lost one hive. But I don't know why. There is plenty of food and the bees have died with their heads in the cells as if searching for food some are half hatching out from...