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It's exactly what i'm about to start doing but only for certain *special* lines 🐝

Prob to much YouTube madness :LOL: (no need to turn them into charcoal) - it's a bit silly.

Try this next year, Andy, it's a simple job and they'll take it down whatever the weather.

Mixed reports...... could be multi factoral BUT most mention too many old bees and not enough young ones going into winter...with which...

Simple as blowing a little into the hive and using ears, buzz = bees etc - works for me. But you do need to know your bees or risk stung...

Nail-head; i'm talking 6-12kg per hive in autumn (if needed), usually there is enough Ivy around here to fill the stocks for winter...

Nothing wrong with feeding fondant as an alternative to syrup (seen it used, used it myself) but there is a biiig difference between...

a great man pete little was, I learned loads from him - he is sadly missed I also miss our conversations about gardening mostly

And what is even more surprising are the folk selling VSH Queens while at the same time pumping out YouTube content pushing these heavy...

Yeah the thinking there was to encourage folk to use Google (it's the first result) and throws up lots of other useful info, including...

Yes, and here are the photos of how he does it.

Some of the vids I see dropped on Youtube around these topics by *experts* makes me wonder if they actually keep bees ;) Name drop -...

I agree, fondant is cheaper kg/kg than invert and doesn’t have the hassle of mixing syrup!