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That's just a long-winded way of sticking your fingers in your ears and singing "La la la, I'm not listening". But that's fine by me...

Not a bad idea if a tunnel takes the bees to the outside, and the lifts are then lined with eg 10cm of kingspan.

It sounds like they are just decorative "lifts" like a WBC, probably over a standard hive eg national.

A friend in his early teens borrowed £1000 from his dad in the late '60s to set up an apiary. I was stunned when he paid back the loan...

Are you tempted to try what someone on here reported and pull pollen pellets out of the comb and eat one each day for a few weeks?

Not actually beeswax so I'd avoid it like the plague & I guess wax exchange companies would be v unhappy...

I'm sure it's all possible, or you could get bees to do it! I think someone is manufacturing "drawn comb" but I'm not sure how.

Actively cooled print chamber, and appropriate temperature nozzles, maybe fed with molten wax via small heated hoses.

3D printed???

Maybe I should market my honey as "royal", after all it was made by workers in a hive with a queen! If they got into royal jelly...

I would definitely requeen that hive ASAP, I wouldn't count your 3m defensive rule as normal either - I can (almost always) stand 2-3...

Nail gun is transformative, more than halves my assembly time for frames.

:iagree: as do the judges who awarded me 'best commercial in Show' in the Royal Welsh this year (we were also narrowly beaten for best...

Oval label centred on a face but extending over the two adjacent faces works well for me.

Is there much of a market for jars that small? Hotels?