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Probably because someone could burn themselves! 🤷🏻 If we mollycoddle kids so much how do they learn to risk-assess??

No, crystal formation is made easier and more rapid by particles in a solution (honey in this case) or irregularities on a surface. I suspect the heating to higher temperatures dissolves small crystals already present thus delaying crystals growing. With some substances you can create a...

Also a vector for viruses to transfer between bees and wasp & vice-versa

Is the other way around still restricted though?!

"I've been doing it like this for 39 years!" is no guarantee it's right! I think the real secret is critical thinking at every stage whilst understanding as much as possible about bee biology.

I know what you mean though it is called "stainless" not "stainnone" ,🤔

A familiar story of the potential unintended consequences of hybridisation with imported bees.

Some reclaimed wood is bound to have rust stains which needs removing 🙂

Busy applying for a poisons licence so you can use OA to remove rust stains from campervan panels?

https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/uk-gdpr-guidance-and-resources/data-sharing/data-sharing-a-code-of-practice/enforcement-of-this-code/#:~:text=For serious breaches of the,risk-based approach to enforcement. Anyone who has had the email fancy reporting it?

Me too! We don't need a second reservoir of mites! Hopefully they wouldn't survive queen wasp hibernation 🤞

Interesting. Are they building comb at the moment?

Me too! 12 makes more sense, more balanced options

I sometimes do more than 3 treatments, so let's say 5. My number of hives varies 5-12, let's say 15. 2g per treatment. So 5x15x2=150g per annum. So 8kg will last 53yrs - I'll be 114. I reckon I'll have "stopped beekeeping" by then. 😁 The oak door drip rail I was planning to bleach recently...

How much constitutes a "mountain"? I've bought a fair bit recently!

Assuming there was a frame with eggs in the donor frames then hopefully they are raising a new queen. I'll be back in a few days so could probably bring you a frame with eggs if in doubt.

I've had daughters of my own local reasonably docile bees that produced offspring that were horrible - if I'd started with buckfasts I'd have been blaming it on that (as I did about 30+yrs ago!). The new daughter queen obviously hung out at the yobbo DCA rather than the gentlemanly one...

Of course you are welcome! 👍 Be warned though - your curiosity may be piqued and you could end up on the slippery (but rewarding) slope that is beekeeping! 😁

I would select an open QC (or 2) at 5 days so the queen had been fed royal jelly for her entire development.

I wonder if HMP Strange ways will let me keep bees?........