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Weil's disease is leptospirosis which was mentioned earlier in the thread. Also called rat fever, etc. Of course bees forage for water...

My best bit of advice would be to really learn the life stages; eggs, larvae, when they are capped, and when emerge for each caste. When...

I read years ago that about 20% of house fires are caused by rats knawing electric cables.

Leptospira are easy organisms to kill so I wouldn't worry about that specifically, detergent or heat will do it easily. Incidentally...

I use square and have had no great problems though a new phone update failed to work for a bit a few years ago. I have a reader but my...

I can get into my bee shed again! :D Whilst I appreciate that many of you won't quite share my excitement at the reinstatement of full...

Can I market my honey as; ORGANIC* *contains multiple carbon-carbon bonds.

It sounds like they both had significant brood breaks which may have helped with mite numbers. In your position, and interested in going...

Isn't that just the way of things?! 🤷‍♂️😂

I remember walking the west highland way one February, I was carrying so much warm kit that the effort kept me warm and I rarely needed it!

So LBC have corrected it finally 😁 Maybe one of their staff is on here!

Do you find the fan helps? I use an old fridge which holds 3 buckets easily (i could probably fit 4) with 2x40w tube heaters but no fan...

There have been numerous references on multiple threads of bees being able to make use of condensation to dilute their honey stores...

If it's a single hive then you could try closing the bees in, moving the hive to the side for 2 or 3 days, and placing a bait trap...

Worth getting a big bucket whilst you still can. It's a stable compound.