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Each time I unite hives i struggle to reduce the number of brood frames/boxes, i usually end up with a QE under a deep box while the brood emerges, and it becomes a deep super, this obviously gives the problem of trapped drones and when full it is very heavy.
Anyone got any tricks? I did wonder about putting a box above a crownboard with a hole open, though likely to result ...

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Glossary
Abdomen: Segmented posterior part of bee containing heart, honey, stomach, intestines, reproductive organs, and sting.

Acarapis woodi: Scientific name of acarine mite, which infests tracheae of bees.

Acarine disease: Condition caused by Acarapis woodi.

Acid board (also Fume board): A rimmed hive cover containing a pad of absorbent material into which b...

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I was supposed to be jarring up 4 buckets of honey this morning but when I got up I realised one circuit in my box had tripped!
So after lots of trial and error I realised it was the plug in spur to my sheds and greenhouse that had tripped.
Removed all the plugged in equipment and realised that the problem was in my garden shed. By disconnecting lengths of cable between ...

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if one sees a supersedure cell but removes queen into a nuc box....will bees also then raise emergency queen cells or stick with the supersedure cell they are developing....

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Inspection last Saturday (6 June). Stores were decent.

By Wednesday, all stores gone. I figured with the not so great weather, they'd consumed their stores. Quite a few bees perished. Shook two frames of bees from another hive, and fed them syrup.

Fed them tonight. Went off, came back 20-30 minutes later, a number of bees around entrance. Thought it odd, as ass...

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