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Had to look up ' Had to look up 'corbicular'. You live and learn!

I shall try that this year (assuming bad year for wasps, as it usually is for me) as it is very difficult to empty - I have to cut open the chamber with a stanley knife and make a big hole to tip the contents onto the compost heap. Then the destroyed chamber goes to landfill unfortunately.

I'm sure Karol will explain ... again ... the waspbane is intended to catch the scout wasps so the frenzy of thousands of wasps is pre-empted and never happens.

I think it's gorse - too prickly to be broom

However I do not know what the proprietary powder is (obviously) and I assume it is quite important. It is not just an attractant, but also assists in breaking down the organic matter in the chamber. That said, I'm sure would still work well without it, but I buy a new refill each year because...

Is there a question about the vaccine interval?

From another site: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/honey-fraud-detection?fbclid=IwAR0f7geaAj0Oq-jZBLifBKT0XzfLRNRkUGf-dZRdj9w8Re8BvsD7T3X0eLY

Is that a footpath alongside the river bank?

I'll bet half the beekeeping forum are looking up the lyrics of Eric the Half a Bee. I never knew the derivation until now!

Stingless bees? I would cease to be a beekeeper within a year due to wasps.

Doesn't look like my crocosmia which are much flatter - but they do increase one on top of the other though

Just ordered a stethoscope!

I never got on very well with Apiguard - bees didn't seem to distribute it very well and was always a lot left on the trays after treatment, so last two years I've been using Apilife Var which works fine but is very fragile and easy to crumble accidentally, so this next season giving Thymovar a...

Moved one hive 50 yds within apiary as v cold and no bee activity in the last week, nor, according to forecast for the next week to 10 days. Will keep the entrance blocked for 24 hrs, don't know why really, probably just an excess of caution.

Now I am wondering if you are right about a stoat; one of my ducks was killed on the pond (very shallow) but damage was only done to the back of its neck, the carcass was not taken away.

As I only use thymol as my late summer/autumn varroa treatment, I found this article on the efficacy of the three main types of thymol treatment an interesting read. https://www.beeculture.com/thymol-varroa-control

I found the partially eaten carcasses of two ducks a field away and assumed that a spate of duck/chicken deaths was due to buzzards, but was told buzzards take smaller prey, or carrion. I don't think we have goshawks around here.

Like father, like son?

Nowhere near as deep as UK! Even without Germany in the equation the basic premise remains - listen to SWMBO