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One of my hives swarmed today and my wife and I were able to capture it. When we put it in a hive we saw the queen on the top bars. I put a queen in this hive last summer when they failed to re-queen after a swarm. (So far I am doing great at producing swarms!) She was marked but the queen I saw tod...

Can the hive inspection re. stores wait until the weekend or should I add a super right away. I have 5 medium frames that I could add. Should these be substituted for empty frames within the existing supers or should a new super be put on top? Are there any other reasons why the bees would be up the...

One of my hives has a lot of bees on top of the inner cover. The overall weight of the hive feels good and they appeared to have adequate stores going into winter. I plan on checking stores this weekend when the weather warms. There are at least as many bees up there as I see in the summer. Any thou...

I have two hives 30 minutes from my house. When I checked on them today one was completely turned over including the stand it was sitting on. The supers were still together although the outer cover and the screened bottom board had been dislodged. I had a small hive beetle oil trap under the bottom ...