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This sounds pretty good. I did have visions of lining a shed in plastic. Similar to Dexter when he's preparing a kill room.

After making a exceptionally sticky mess in the kitchen, and also accidently leaving the door open for thousands of bees to find it, my wife, for some reason was a bit moody. Actually she was extremely fed up. I have been banned from extracting honey in the house otherwise something else may be...

Perhaps send them a letter to their address threatening them with the police for theft if they do not return if they get their refund.

I have one on the way from Laurence at Black Mountain Honey to requeen a nasty and flighty colony from a split earlier in the season. The last one I bought is producing lovely calm bees.

Hi. How quickly do they take fondant down and store it? I have given my bees a little syrup to see them through until the ivy comes out. I don't want to buy too much sugar if they can get their own ivy stores. Problem is, you can't guarantee how big the flow will be and what the weather will be...

Are sulphur strips still considered safe for both brood and super frames?

You want to disturb the queen as little as possible so that she doesn't break out of her normal routine and position in the hive. Try to not use too much smoke (protect yourself well). Ignore honey frames and capped frames with no eggs or larvae. The queen wants to be on a frame with space to...

Make them hopelessly queenless and buy a queen. It is actually a good time of year to do it. They seem to accept them more readily when they know they are running out of time to raise their own.

I get the rockbottom cedar Langstroths from Maismores. I keep eyeing up the Honey Paw langstroths but they are an extra £100 for a similar setup. Plus they do medium supers only where my rock bottoms are shallow supers so, it would be yet another frame type in the apiary. I love the look of...

Hmmm. We get tonnes of it. Perhaps I'll start harvesting it. I usually leave it for the bees which saves on sugar. I've often wondered if Ivy honey helps with nosema. It has a similar smell to Thymol. It sets really quickly, I imagine you don't wait for it to be capped?

Yes the ivy is only a few weeks away here in Norfolk. Big buds already. It was out in late August last year here. You certainly don't want that foul stuff in your supers

I don't think Covid has affected the A-Level syllabus over the last two years. Good news on people doing well. Hopefully they have chosen their degree courses wisely.

There's some nice colour there. Banksy could learn a thing or two

Give the frames a shake. If nothing comes out, it is OK to extract. You don't need to wait for them to be 100 percent capped.

Good old Hivemaker. I'm pretty useless at maths and didn't know how much sugar and water the make an exact gallon of 2:1 to add the thymol to. Without Thymol, guess work would be ok but didn't want to overdose. This came in handy - https://www.iowabees.com/syrup

Great thank you

Sorry. I didn't look at the date 🤣

Hi. How much thymol mix would you add to 2.5 kg sugar and 1 litre sugar syrup? Thank you

I've heard from the penguins that it is trickier in Antarctica. Probably because they don't have fingers to hold the frames properly.

Hi. Thank you for the response. Definitely food for thought. If you put a super on at an angle on the Lyson, is the recess large enough for a bee to hide in? I've been looking at the honeypaw a fair bit, the Norfolk Honey company on YouTube has a series on them. I like the look of them. I do...