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I'm not sure why labouring the point that beekeeper influence isnt part of the natural selection process supports any valid argument. Essentially, introducing foreign subspecies which can interbreed with the native subspecies is the opposite to conservation, whereas encouraging and...

If you're not buying pallets via the bfa then C Wynne Jones is as good as any.

Triploid trout

The idea that successive generations of grafted queens could get smaller is quite scary, thankfully it doesn't appear to be particularly true on a practical level.

As in the picture, I think its about 3 inches

Push out, quite handy to pop the individual bar onto the frame of larvae you're grafting from

Its a cell bar frame sold by abelo

I use hundreds of those each season

Make the tale of your woes public to the community, especially the beekeeping community via your local associations, you might not get your stuff back but you might prevent someone else getting stung and the negative vibes will cost them more than the stolen kit is worth in the long run.

You should lean in to it.

I set up my first cell raisers yesterday, grafting in nine days time. Good luck!

The blackthorn blossoms looked like snow in the wind here yesterday

Isn't it a faff to reposition them all after transport?

As a legacy of beginning with a 9 frame extractor I still have my supers mostly on 9 frames, saves a couple of quid per box in frames too, and shaves a bit off extracting time. There is an old post on here(what an archive!) somewhere where denrosa had done comparative tests and found the bees...

That's a reasonable expectation 👍

No ****, Sherlock!

Bees are electrostaticly charged hairy creatures buzzing about a little above ground level, there'll be a bit of everything in the environment on them besides what they're actually foraging for when they've been out for a bit.

Its horses for courses, honey will be a miracle cure for some hay fever sufferers and yet have little effect on others. I dont see any value in denying it works for some, so long as its not sold as a snake oil guaranteed cure all.

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What latest thinking? My understanding was the greatest threat to their continued existence as a pure bread is hybridization and thats more likely to further occur if there's hybrids already about. Much like bees.