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Following on from the recently started "Making Mead as another hobby" thread I thought i would pose a question to our forum community. I have, for a few years, posed the below question to Mead class Exhibiters and Judges at Honey Shows. Q: If Mead was any good as a drink you would be able to...

I was thinking about Cane Toads.

My car gets covered in bee poo but my neighbours a few meters away rarely gets a mark. Once damp it wipes off or a finger nail will remove it.

I would be concerned about the newspaper. Frames and wax will contain food for human consumption, I would be concerned about the cleanliness of the paper and also exactly what chemicals are used to bleach the paper pulp and also what exactly is in the Ink of the print especially of it's going...

For showing, a honey show judge has told me try to avoid the white colour with softset as some judges have been known (wrongly) to assume it's pure oil seed **** and not even bother looking at it.

That's not a bad idea. Although indonlike glass as it's near enough a closed recycling system.

Well, this afternoon my wife was busy melting wax and filtering it using the induction hobs. I now need to scrape a few pns of wax off the laminate floor and other places tomorrow.

So what happens when it is reported on FB? Surely this happens all the time with any product containing animals derivatives? What gets me is that the people who complain probably eat sweetners either natural or artificial that have had more bees and insects killed by the staff at prcesessors...

Ratchet strap ymin the side, of Paynes and Maismore. A small pice of wood can also be used to spread any load under the metal components too.

How do you spray it onto the frames, is it technically legal to spray onto items that will be used for the human food chain?

Really wish someone could come up with a hive scale that will connect via a sim card or WiFi and is say £50 so not insanely expensive. Would be fascinating to see how the weight changes and would be interesting to see when an actual flow is on or not on.

I wonder if you have hit the nail on the head. Is this association one that is effectively BIBBA obsessed; they want as pure to AMM (British Black bee) as possible. To me a branch appiary is a training appiary, it should teach best practice and have a good range of examples of different hives /...

They attract if they don't trap the wasp that finds it. If a wasp gets away it tells its sisters where your appiary is.

Seriously tempted to buy electric auto weighing for my hive at home to see if when the hive puts on weight it us humid, first thing in the morning etc to see how the lime harvest goes. Can't afford the equipment with the uncertain in the economy however; tightening our belts and putting the...

Fickle stuff isn't it. Nectar evaporates off quickly. As soon as the bees start to fly is the best time to see if it's productive for bees.

On Holiday in Oban. Lime is budding but not open. Brambles have the odd flower open whilst in the corner of the harbour there are about 5 Himalayen Balsam plants busy flowering.

I have come across this help before but it always seems to not cover the average person as it seems to aways explain it from the perspective of a business owner / self employed already. What would be useful is how or what to do if. You are employed and paid through payee. Income is below tax...

Don't forget that a super is only the size for convenience i.e it's not too heavy to lift. We use a brood box as brood is a lot lighter than stores and a typical brood nest would overwhelm an national sized super. There is nothing in theory to stop you from using exclusively supers or brood...

Lime in Shirley, Solihull have now come into flower. Fingers crossed for a good harvest.

Any amount of royal jelly and they intend to turn it into a queen cell and progress it.