# September beginner beekeeper Q&A (painting your hive, pest management, troubleshooting)

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**Created:** [September 2, 2021, 2:45am UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/september-beginner-beekeeper-q-a-painting-your-hive-pest-management-troubleshooting/31336 "2021-09-02T02:45:10Z")\
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After what felt like a very short winter this year, we are now entering Spring here in Australia… so if you have recently acquired a Flow Hive, you’ll be getting established now and probably have lots of questions. This live Q&A with Cedar might answer some of them - and if you have others, just ask - we’ll be here to help! 🙂

This session’s topics include:

- Pest management
- Trouble shooting issues with your Flow Frames
- Painting and positioning your hive
- Introducing bees to their new home

You’ll find the recording here:

[![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/honeyflow/original/3X/d/9/d9db71b6d40f712805e212691f9270405057c68c.jpeg "Beginner beekeeper Q&A") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swn-fons5Mg)

And the transcript here:

> **[Beginner Beekeeping September](https://www.honeyflow.com.au/blogs/livestreams/beginner-beekeeping-september-210901)**
>
> It’s Beginner Beekeeping Q&A from Cedar’s house. He talked about pest management, Flow Frame troubleshooting and painting your hive, among other topics.     Video Transcription Hi, it's the first day of spring here in the Southern...