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First day of spring - lovely to see the consiracy theories already in full bloom! Just don't mention microwave ovens, wifi signals from...

You can’t attach photos to your clipboard as easily. You can’t track data as easily when its handwritten. You can’t graph trends as...

I think I'd just shoot it through the bars of the trap then tip the corpse into the general purpose rubbish bin.

This climate went nuts! Since I wrote here last time, the flow of goat willow and cornel don't stop. Today we had cozy 20 Celsius. I...

Sometimes I wish I still smoked! Got to my partners allotments to see the stricken colony there. A ceder national in this case was on...

All enjoying the sun today. Don't bees get their water from the nicest spots?

Discovered that a left-to-die nuc is still alive. The colony in a Nat BB was badly attacked by wasps in the autumn and was reduced to...

Great news everybody. All 4 hives have survived - so far. Hives 1 to 3 have been very busy the last few days, bringing in lots of...

No, the black is all the lip of the hive body. It's a rebate system a bit like Paradise Honey boxes. Pnkemp is correct about the water...

I must have misunderstood the design then. I though the water would be on a plastic ledge, and to get into the hive it would have to go...

If the ledge is plastic...does it matter?

This is mine. Had some left over ply from building some nuc boxes. It's been painted now.

Perhaps being an electrical engineer isn't that useful as a basis for beekeeping theory or the fluid dynamics of airflow?

Nice one👍 The Winter isn’t over yet, so just keep an eye on food levels to avoid a loss. Good luck with the split

Bad news first. Thanks to COVID my beginner course with my local BKA, delayed from last year, is now pushed back to next year, so I will...