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Sorry I was being slightly facetious there. I do know you get snow and frost but the point I was making was that it seems faintly ridiculous to be making such generalisations about insulation when you live in the relatively warm and balmy south. Incidentally during the winter of 2009-2010 we...

:iagree: Do you get frost in Wiltshire?;) Or snow?

Brilliant Tom. Many thanks. Gerry

Does anyone know where I can get the little short nails that Th#rnes use to frame their wired Q excluders? Cheers Gerry

Yep - top bee space if the frame runners are left off. Not really an option for me as the rest of my (mainly wooden) kit is bottom bee space. Good to know that the flexible sheet isn't especially designed to function as a crownboard and that I won't need to put a frame on it. Gerry

One thing that has puzzled me about the new Pay*nes poly hives I've just bought is what to do about the plastic sheet crownboard supplied with them. I've installed the frame runners also supplied in order to work the hives bottom bee space. The problem this creates is that there's now less...

Having had it happen to me I'd say it's definitely fact. A dead cluster with heads in cells where there are frames of stores a matter of inches away. What I do every winter now is lay a block of fondant directly on the frame top bars rather than using the hole in the crownboard. Even if they...

er....that'll be the floats for the feeders in the nucs.

Ok that seems to have been blocked but it's a well known beekeeping auction site if that's any use.

Bickerstaffes make these. I think you can buy them direct from them or from ********.

My wick is recovering nicely thanks;)

And my point was that the bell heather we mean here when we talk about bell heather is the wild version. And that doesn't flower in Spring. Colin Weightman who knows more than most when it comes to heather honey gives the plant I'm talking about a mention here...

You're not seriously saying I don't know the difference between the two are you? Where I live we have mountainsides full of heather - it's not much of a garden plant around here! Bell heather flowers on the lower slopes of the heather moors near me. It flowers about a month before the ling...

Again local conditions prevail - bell heather is in flower right now with me. Never seen it in flower in Spring.

Les - that doesn't look like a Q cell to me. If anything it looks like a bit of comb hanging down. A closer pic might help as turning sideways to see it is awkward!

Murray the association I'm in is....er, Moray!

Crg - there's nothing shifty or underhand about posting on Facebook re this. I hesitate to say it but this is the 21st century - get with it man! And I think you'd be surprised how effective it is. Look at the responses from the co-op. They're even talking about getting involved with BIBBA...

Around here PH I suspect most of our bees are in large part AMM. A random colony ie nothing special in our association apiary tested at 70% AMM from its wing morphometry last summer. I didn't do the test and know very little about wing venation but this is what was reported to me. I for one...

Ah yes the Bro Adam line - slightly different north of the border I think. Hopefully Polyhive will step in here. And didn't the bees brought in to replace those killed off originate from a wider range of sources than Southern Europe - including the Netherlands?

According to the Co-op's reply on their Plan Bee facebook page the bulk of bees in the UK originate from southern Europe! Eh?!! :confused: