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Usually done in countries worried about trade deficits to decrease reliance on oil imports, ie Mexico

I've always thought the very easiest way to keep quality really high in queen rearing is to ruthlessly cull anything slightly sub optimal at every stage of the process, well done cgf!

I reckon its happened to all of us at some point, usually several times a season for me 🤣🙈

Google says its a iridescent blue beetle

Who's this fella please?

Take the hit, feed continuously while raising cells, if the frames get honey/syrup bound swap them for empties and use the full one for nuc building, thats what I do anyway.

So yesterday I fired up the smoker for the first time in a long time to take a peak at a few colonies to assess the value of an oxalic vape at this stage in the game. I was delighted to see all the colonies I looked at seemed in fine condition, good numbers and weight, all but one of them that I...

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Rather than a reduction in price (which I've rarely achieved!) it has on a number of occasions been my good fortune to get thrown in a few extras after taking the time to chat with vendors.

I loved those late evening chats with Pete, he had unquenchable enthusiasm for all things bees 😍

I had a kangoo trekka, great little van but too dinky for my needs in the end, it also got tired and they dont sell new ones. If I was going for a van again yhen the caddy has an awd version thats tempting.

F Fmp! £18/kg for bakers honey, well done!

They do this thing called altruistic suicide where the older bees, the ones likely to be carrying the highest pathogen loads, chose to go on near suicide scouting missions, if they fail to make it back its no great loss and their pathogens are removed from the hive.

My favourite use of beeswax, new to me and not on that list, occurred two winters ago when some lads bought all my beeswax blocks from ghe stall, and an hour or so later came back and bought every bit of beeswax I had left, including candles. It turns out they were waxing the runners on their...

Eh?

I have a few well to do customers who often spend ~£30 on fresh candles to set the table for guests, no skin off my nose! But I do wonder if the half burned candles get chucked in landfill, maybe a returns policy might work.

Made a few for market the other day and the best sellers are no doubt the long straight ones done in glass molds, all sold out!

Me too, plus its a nonsense of a treatment from pretty much every angle I can think of

Gwella'n fuan Philip