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Nah, they quickly find the warmest* spot in their cavity to build their nest. *Warmest = most insulated

What’s the difference between a chick pea and a broad bean? I’ve never had a broad bean on my face

David Attenborough while walking in a park came across a really sorry looking duck, covered in slimy mud and mess, so he carefully picked it up and wiped it nice and clean with paper hankies before popping it back in the lake where it happily paddled off. A little strole further on and he finds...

Why did the trans guy eat salad? Because he was a herbefore

Yup, basically the wire acts as a heat sink and the queen (or the bees who prepare cells for the queento lay in) notice this.

I always followed the perceived wisdom of not feeding syrup through the winter months until I ended up looking after bees for a lady who fell poorly in the spring. This lady hadn't read the perceived wisdom and had sporadically fed a 2:1 syrup in a four pint feeder on a few occasions from...

Obvs anybody vat registered would be a fool not to claim vat back on the boxes. Selling bees is zero rated

No, but as there's a legal requirement to keep records of hive treatments and generic oxalic acid isnt really allowed under our rules, hence it's much easier to declare oneself treatment free than poke your head above the parapet, skewing any statistics gathered on the subject beyond plausibility.

Having its musings shared with a board of humans?

I accidentally slid into the back of another car this morning and an irate midget got out and said "I'm not happy" To which I replied "which one are you then?"

I graft in the cab of the truck with a headtorch, but with a 0000 brush rather than a grafting tool

Diolch Emyr

"I don't give a **** who's father you are, get those bloody reindeer off my roof"

Sub optimal drones are exactly that, it's why I've always eschewed pushing colonies to produce any more drones than they're already inclined to.

When thinking about splits I like to leave the original queen on six national frames of brood well covered in bees, they can then bounce back quick. Rob them to four or five frames and they often loose all momentum and it takes a couple of brood cycles(thats a goodly chunk of the season) to get...

Dm me for orders 🤣

A pallet of 36 x 14 kg buckets goes for around £4000

Nothing scheduled mate, I'll let you know if owt crops up

I'd been out of dads bags for a decade by 83🤣

Strips hung on frames by the side of the brood nest come into direct contact with far more bees than a sponge over the frames, especially if the strips are made of a friable material such as cardboard which the bees set about chewing and removing. A much much more logical delivery approach...