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It's a very good idea to go to the local beekeepers' meeting, you'll get lots of practical information and, probably, genuine offers of help, I'm sure, about things like siting the hive (though I know your mum's garden doesn't offer many options), re-queening, pest and disease control and so...

We (wife and I) are also just getting into keeping bees but I have worked on the fringes of beekeeping for some years in the context of parasitic mite control. The critical thing about beehive construction is the 'beespace', the space between the frames of comb. If it's too wide, the bees fill...