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Sadly can't find this now, but you just take a sharp knife to the comb leaving a few millimetres around the cocoon.

You did better than me at my first attempt at grafting! When there is a strong flow on then they can almost entomb the cells in comb. Just cut the comb around the silhouette of the cell and they are fine. Roger Patterson has a BIBBA video showing how to do this. I think it is advised to have...

Well done Swarm and Antipodes! What assets to this forum you both are.

I hate to be the one to break this to you, but you do realise that you act *exactly* like the 'gammons' (your words) that so offend you? You started this thread about a Facebook post that you took at face value without any deeper thought?

If kids are addicted to phones then it is only because they are following the examples of their parents and grandparents. How much time do you spend on this forum, Facebook, twitter? I've always assumed you were behind the beekeepershour hashtag. I can't be bothered to look up the rates of...

It's amazing how often beekeepers who court publicity get vandalised. Strange how these coincidences occur. As if summer storms weren't bad enough....

Sounds nice, where are you? Oxfordshire?

Frames and top bars. I have a small cheapo 3 frame tangential extractor and one thing I will say is it is quite awkward getting the small combs in and out. They obviously sit lower in the extractor and the gap is not big to get your arm/hand down. I keep meaning to take my angle grinder to...

White stuff is crystallised honey, other stuff is bee bread that has been eaten by pollen mites.

The most open minded forum at the moment is the Canadian beesource.com. Most of its users are from the US, but it has users from Europe/UK too. It is moderated very well I think. Like most forums a small number of posters think it's their duty to post on every thread and can dominate...

Chris Park in a video clip for Northern Bee Books says even today most bees in the world are kept on fixed comb. I'm curious if anyone has anymore info/numbers on this? I have Warré hives and they've performed exactly as promised. Low cost to build and low cost(in time and money) to maintain...

I can recommend the Warré googlegroups mailing list.

Yes bees do vary in size. But so do the size of queen excluders. I bought some metal entrance discs from Simon the beekeeper's closing down sale, and the slots on them (which I assume are supposed to be a queen excluder) are very tight, it's painful to watch a bee go through them. I took my...

The problem is not where it's posted, but the fact that: a) people can't read and b) find it impossible to accept that people can have different opinions to themselves. I specifically said who the film would not appeal to and why I was posting it in TF. I did this in an attempt to avoid the...

28-30th of June

Partly answering my own question, Northern Ireland/Ireland members can buy from Donegal bees although it's pricey for a bit of plastic https://www.donegalbees.ie/products/var-control-cage . Their delivery page implies no delivery to Great Britain though.

CBPV is a virus of adult bees, but the window for infection is short, something like the first 24hrs after emergence. So introduce a brood break; if there are no bees less than 24hrs old then it can't spread. Once all the bees infected with CBPV have died off, brood rearing can resume...

Any UK suppliers for queen cages like this https://www.apimobru.com/gabbietta-var-control-mozzato/?lang=en ? Has anybody ordered them from abroad post Brexit? I think they'd be useful for CBPV too.

A film. Trailer: All links to the full film (25 mins) are password protected, but these are so easy to guess (or in fact are given away) I don't really see the point. For example...