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Have a nice day RAB :nature-smiley-005:

Or you have to measure small quantities of oxalic crystals, which means better-than-kitchen scales. That was the point where I started to look for someone still selling it. Legislation takes a while to reach rural Wales, it seems :judge:

Well, butter-fingers me...

I was surprised to find a well-known supplier (but not all) still selling generic, pre-mixed Oxalic/sugar solution (as "winter hive care"!). Good for me, but are they technically outside the law? I imagine I am if I use it

Everything depends on concentration, but sodium carbonate is a food additive: E500(i) Sodium carbonate E500(ii) Sodium bicarbonate E500(iii) Sodium sesquicarbonate Origin: Produced from seawater or salt. Natural minerals. Function & characteristics: Acidity regulators...

You probably don't want to drink washing soda (sodium carbonate), but it's not deadly. You definitely do not want to even touch caustic soda (sodium hydroxide) with bare skin; it is a highly corrosive alkali which, as implied, causes long-term damage

Ha - what a splendid idea we both had :-) Overnight last night I discovered it is big enough to soak a couple of mini feeders too

Being slightly serious...The damn stuff has just reached here too. From a beekeeping perspective, isn't it just a nuisance and a complication? What's the use of a strong flow NOW?

Yikes - the Hanging Gardens of Birkenhead? :leaving:

Is the guy at abstruse goose a beekeeper:

Cussedness, I suppose :toetap05: Since there is no agreed "loss of bestness" period for honey, it becomes a fatuous action - and actually undermines the validity of best before dates on products that really need it I was seriously advised this week to put 1 year ahead, because that way people...

I'm looking at a BBKA leaflet (2011 I think) that says "For direct sales like farmers markets or sales at the door lot numbers and ‘Best before’ dates are not needed". Is that now (since 2015?) incorrect and therefore must have either (a) both or (b) best before that includes a day of month ...

:iagree: Yanks call it fiddleneck - obvious why from this photo

ASDA http://www.mysupermarket.co.uk/asda-compare-prices/Air_Freshener/Air_Wick_4in1_Air_Freshener_Spray_Colours_of_Nature_Ivory_Freesia_Bloom_240ml.html?TrackingCode=211.03yXEqFyzEq_7LUyZ52VAA

Q: What is the bee space? A: It's the thing you can never find in the b. shed

Something tells me this is a half-right story with media "embellishment" http://metro.co.uk/2016/05/24/20000-bees-chase-car-for-two-days-after-queen-bee-gets-trapped-in-boot-5901545/?ito=facebook The Grauniad have the same story with less melodrama...

Hmm. I'll watch with interest what others with more experience say, then.

Threads like this make all the winter bickering on this forum worthwhile. Thanks all I tried the newspaper method but all the propolis make the touch-screen sticky

Have you seen the Q since you moved her?