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One insulation material i have used recently (for insulating around and above a rapid feeder in a spare super) is loft insulation - but...

Are the darker bees now flying just robbing out the weak colony?

The forum is often like that, straying far from the original topic. It's both a frustration and a fascination.

Unless anyone can trace their ancestry to the few individuals that possibly survived in the south of the British isle (when attached to...

If you have a  very strong colony you could take bees from you could spray with air freshener and shake some in, but not a great idea in...

Just musing for next year. Has anyone used these 3 frame nucs on top of another colony (for warmth) either as standard nucs, or as...

Whereabouts are you? I may well have a spare nuc in the spring.

We're they able to supply one? I remember as an early teenager on holiday in France with my parents my father trying to ask for washing...

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.