After reading the uniting thread last week I finally did it: found and removed the queen from my five-frame colony in Kent, put newspaper over the strong colony's brood b…
Third year in Uppsala, four colonies. Inspected yesterday in a rare sunny afternoon and one colony has almost no brood: two palm-sized patches of capped brood on one fram…
First-year in Yorkshire, and I've seen it repeated everywhere like a commandment: take the queen excluder off before winter. I'm happy to obey but nobody's actually expla…
Confession thread. I've been nursing two struggling colonies all August — one with a queen laying a patchy dinner-plate of brood, one that never built past five frames af…
Fifth year, Małopolskie. I have a colony that's queenright and healthy but just small — maybe four frames of bees after a poor season, not combine material in my view bec…
Uppsala, third year, five hives. One colony has a queen I've been unhappy with all season — patchy pattern, colony never took off, wash numbers fine so it's not mites. I …
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