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Can't see if those hexes are flat. 🙂

Have to agree with JBM, Rob: plenty of opportunity to learn inside a hive during the season. Not sure how you could learn much without causing disturbance. Reckon we would all agree that practical experience is the better route to learning.

What was the CofO, and would you post close-up photos?

Fake honey is only one part of the story and we're lucky that it hasn't yet been found to have the fingerprints of organised crime. I tell customers that honey is more than a food, that it is a geo-political asset and that we must consider all food as such and buy accordingly. The recent...

Look closely at the hex flats and you'll notice a slight curvature, most noticeable at the base. They are not very good jars made in a distant corner of the world.

Similar story: 24 of 25 UK retailers sell suspicious honey. https://www.theguardian.com/food/2024/nov/09/nine-in-ten-honey-samples-from-uk-retailers-fail-authenticity-test?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Must have a look.

Me too. Thorne wood is generally harder and more difficult to assemble. Maisemore is grainless, lighter and easy to pin. No good if accuracy is compromised: flush fitting of parts will ensure frame squareness and avoid jarring when scraping brace comb.

What do you hope to gain by such an unsubstantiated comment? Would help us if you described your sales experience with the company. You know, quality of equipment, rapid service, knowledgeable staff. Must try harder: Hagen's Bees: apostrophe after the N of Hagen, capital B for Bees, no...

No, closeness of hives is not related to robbing. I sometimes have them closer than that, on pallets where the location prevents alternate entrance direction, and maybe a nuc or two on top.

Looks like ivy.

Yes, warm it overnight, skim off the crust - nearly all should come out if you're careful - pour through a double strainer and mix from that bucket.

Yes, producing well here in London, though peripatetically: started September, stopped, started again and so on. 15C for the next week, so bees flying well.

Surprised to find this mid-July swarm, unfed and on 12 frames this week. Rest were foraging strongly on ivy here in Hackney.

Yes, fireblight. So endemic in Switzerland that it is forbidden to plant pyracantha.

As above, supersedure is likely complete and all is well.

A colony will need twice that to get through winter, depending on Italian winters, of course. UK guide weight is 20kg.

Late one summer the newspaper was intact after a week; I didn't believe them, so took it away and put the boxes together. All went well.

Meeting too early = fighting. Counter productive (as above).

It might.