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Why make double the work for the bees at this time of year when they don't need the extra work load or need the use of the stores.

Yes , weather looking a bit dismal again after tomorrow.

Greetings Rifat and welcome to the forum.

Any capped stores will be fine for long term storage.

Sorry, I don't buy it. If weather was good enough for them to build up to swarming strength, then there must have been opportunities to...

If a colony swarms and then one needs to go in what ever the weather asap and sort the issue out. The situation is very different to...

Yep agree, once the stores are sealed take them off for safe keeping later. I fed back some two year old ivy stores last month to ward...

No two colonies are the same, one won't know until one tries the manipulation.

The answer is a simple one, stick any crystalised honey back on a/the colony and let them sort it out. No free meal will be left...

Why not ? It depends how well you know your bees and their past history to read what they are up to. If they haven't swarmed and no...

I rarely get stung , on the hands. My protocol is blue flocked type marigold main glove and a nitrile over glove, each colony has it's...

I Demeree double brood with three or four supers.

One can Demeree a double brood (I do if needs be) , a super may give bees space but not laying space. Go back in asap and look to see...

If they decide to go with swarming then 5- 6 days from egg to sealed, it all depends when they first feed the hatched egg. You will have...

If just eggs in a cup then they may remove them, might be worth Demereeing them straight away to nip any other ideas in the bud .