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The OP has spelled out the situation without need for any further fact finding. This is not a hive in a remote corner of a cosy rural garden. This colony is stinging outside the hive and is in an urban environment. With great regret the species nowadays has to co-exist with the two legged...

Wait until next year. That way the drones have a chance to perpetuate the problem. Great. Save the bees Save the bees Fairy liquid this evening and solve the problem for the feral population and everyone else too.

Feeding season mitigates loss of foragers

Bleach solution is anti fungal ,antiviral and antibacterial. It's cheap and readily available. Pay attention to floor and landing board( if present) Keep solution on for at least 10 mins then rinse off.

I had some on the high side. I successfully dried it by trickling it very slowly from open setting tanks into another set of settling tanks with a dehumidifier running. The surface was visibly drying so periodic stirring helped too.Took around four days but shed just under 2%

Just treat them!

Drops are a blunt instrument that you don't let yourself get lost in.

Get a new one But check it's got no asbestos in it....

Thats odd -mine were (some years ago) £6 and £15 from aliexpress and ebay respectively-identical to the ones sold by the bee emporiums and neither have needed adjustment.

Lots to think through especially if you end up needing to be an employer too. Prepare a safety net as good as you can then take the leap. My biggest regret is not ever having had a job I enjoyed.

72 seconds with an angle grinder would sort the chair into a stand nicely

Don't worry about the weather just do it. It shouldn't be a deciding factor You need to cull the queen in all cases. The chances are they will create another bad one . If you combine them with another then it will be a couple of months before that hive calms down fully. If you shake them out...

I don't normally give hives names -except the one known as St Trinians....

I do Imho a colony that is small enough to fit in a nuc needs all the help it can get-so it's poly. But in my locale anything bigger does not so it's timber

Most hives are solar heated already. At least some of the time.

At the time it was a Nought Point Five reduction Now the highest reading is around Seventeen and Three Quarters of one percent;),

Sheep dip -still got the tank. Not sure quite what to do with it though.

I've found the spring crop was much drier than the summer-17.5 vs 18.5 Ive got settling tanks tiny-trickling into settling tanks in the "honey room" with a big dehumidifier running. Lost 1/2% in 24hrs so far

Yes- that is an idea. There's something not quite right with fully external tunnel devices imho My thoughts for the above post would be to just unscrew the existing mesh (it would need replacing at sometime anyway- especially if you had used Maqs)and replacing entirely it with the structure in...

The gates are usually fitted with white silicone O rings which always always leak . Peel them out, measure the internal diameter and cord size, and order a little bag of nitrile ones off ebay.They work out at pennies each and do the job properly. No leaks no transfering