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I am yes. 3 of them now - but I try to limit to two overwintered colonies. I am though thinking of coming over to the dark side 😉 maybe.

I didn’t participate much here last season and then payed the price and lost my two tbh colonies over winter 🙁. Anyway managed to catch what I thought was a large swarm mid May - could never spot the queen though. Kept checking and then sadly the laying worker signs appeared. Took a risk and...

Even cheaper!?

Trouble is that with a TBH, try as I might, I never quite get one just like another - so the combs don’t easily transfer from one hive to another.

I will but I didn’t want to title the thread “I need to do some screwing”

Most seem to be saying trying ditch the super. But if you can’t, I’m pretty sure you should ditch the queen excluder.

…and drilling on a couple of occupied top bar hives at some point this winter. Just general maintenance on a couple of hives made from off cuts of soft pine wood. I’d assumed I’d be best doing it in the depth of winter when they are tightly clustered but wondering now if it’ll disturb them...

I think perfect implies you’ll end up with both queens coexisting for a while. I’ve heard it happens, not sure what in this description hints to it. Isn’t it more likely the virgin is now an ex bee?

Yes. It’s a bit odd thinking about it - why can’t clapping be BSL for clapping?

Applause can sometimes trigger people. For this reason, at my daughters primary school, one class (not hers) was told to do jazz hands rather than clap to show appreciation. 🤗 All in all I’m note sure banning standing ovations is for the better.

I heard the 'organic' bee keeper. It really was an odd peice with no news in it beyond 'the bees have been busy zooming' - literally!

not really; using 'vegan' as an adjective implies its a vegan version of something else. The implied comparison is obvious, dishonest and misleading. Just 'Honea' would be 'honester'.

But then how do you decide which coloney it is?

Ordered.

I've always thought this is more likely at the hive level than the individual bee. In fact an old psychiatry prof I had once talked us through a seminar which really opened my mind. We naïvely hyper-rational medical students were keen to dismiss any 'hocus pocus' suggesting the mind came from...

Here: https://www.theapiarist.org/the-nucleus-method/#:~:text=This%20method%20is%20simplicity%20itself,cell%20in%20the%20original%20colony.

It's odly desturbing how 'the queen' translates to uterus. 'I will now mark all my uterus'. It's rather Pappa Lazarou. But thankyou Aleksander. ;)

I dont think he has started yet JBM.

Ah yes.

Though nuc boxes will do as your extras