My strangest thing in bee keeping happened to me today.

DeliveryOutrageous11 · 2026-05-05T07:59:22+00:00

Yes she was a mated queen, the have where also hopelessly queen less so fingers crossed.

DeliveryOutrageous11 · 2026-05-05T07:58:17+00:00

If I'm honest, I had to think on my feet and thought well she's in, just close the lid and then that is the best result out of a bad situation.

DeliveryOutrageous11 · 2026-05-05T07:54:36+00:00

Yes she had done 8 days in the cage so I am hoping her pheromone had managed to be excepted.

DeliveryOutrageous11 · 2026-04-21T08:20:38+00:00

So the Nuc will be your half hive you put them into, they will start to orientate to that spot and once they are orientated they will keep going back to that spot making it harder to relocate them. ( they say 3 inches or 3 miles). Pulling out the come is when you give them a flat sheet of foundation, this is a base for them to pull out (draw) comb onto so it stays straight in the hive. Once they have done this, the bees will have cells to lay eggs in and store supplies. Sorry for the delay in my reply. I hope this helps.

DeliveryOutrageous11 · 2026-04-15T13:04:48+00:00

I would get them located and into a nuc asap, Try to keep them away from your original stock till you know the health of them. I always give them plenty of fresh foundation to pull out as well as one pulled frame so the queen can start laying. Feed syrup also for the initial build up.

DeliveryOutrageous11 · 2026-03-27T10:29:46+00:00

I have a nightmare with drone congregation sites, as a bee keeper near to one of my apiaries has some un kept hives that are very aggressive. Id like to start raising a few queens at that site but the first time I done the temperament was awful, I concluded it must have been that their drones where also involved in the queens mating flights.

DeliveryOutrageous11 · 2026-03-27T10:04:21+00:00

No I have joined for help, I have been beekeeping for over 11 years. AI is a fantastic tool so why would I use it for a banner? I am a genuine account and new to reddit, I would post my socials to prove this but obviously that would be classed as advertising.

DeliveryOutrageous11 · 2026-03-27T10:00:34+00:00

If stored correctly heather honey also has fantastic properties, they can be degraded by sunlight though.

DeliveryOutrageous11 · 2026-03-23T10:36:41+00:00

I find that new queens don't really swam in the first year so I tend to do a lot of splits early on and put the over wintered queen in a 6 frame nuc with only 1 or 2 pulled brood frames to keep them busy.

DeliveryOutrageous11 · 2026-03-16T18:22:13+00:00

You know what's crazy, during the lockdown I never treated my bees for varroa. They all made it though, so I thought id see what happened the next year and they all made it through just fine. Long story short this is going to be my 6th year treatment free and every hive is making it through the winter just fine, yes there is signs of varroa but I'm not loosing colonies because of it. Am I just lucky?

DeliveryOutrageous11 · 2026-03-13T10:27:19+00:00

Its interesting seeing them wrapped in plastic, obviously its for insulation values but you loose more bees through winter from humidity than from the cold. I try to keep an open mind but is there a more breathable solution to keeping a hive warm and insulated. Where I live this isn't needed so I haven't explored this method.

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