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Great idea for a new thread. :-) "The most important thing I lost this season was..." At one point I was convinced my bucket of soda was leaking and I was losing solution all over the bee shed, so I put it outside, since when it has not leaked at all :confused: My main gain this season has...

3 colonies at the start became 4 colonies at the end, just like last year Last year: 140lb (of which 50 was OSR) This year: 70lb (of which 20 was OSR, despite vast areas of crop within yards of the apiary; most of what they brought in they subsequently ate without ever sealing the cells) Like...

Thymol on. Apiguard and Apilife Var. I did not show the bees what they are getting and there are 2 hives with each product, so that's a double blind trial

Last honey bottled. Cutting out all the considerable sound & fury in the middle: 2014: start - 3 colonies; end - 4 colonies; honey: 140lb 2015: start - 3 colonies; end - 4 colonies; honey: 70lb Judging from the comments of some on here about their season, I think I should be satisfied with...

As it happens, I am just such an Editor, on an ad-funded publication. Happily my problem is usually lack of space not lack of copy, but I realise how lucky I am. I did in fact turn down a piece for the last edition on just these grounds. A degree of diplomacy needed when you are likely to...

You prompted me to Google again, and it seems you are at least half right... http://www.standort-ludwigshafen.basf.de/group/corporate/site-ludwigshafen/en/news-and-media-relations/news-releases/news-releases-usa/P-10-0117

You must be very brand aware :coolgleamA: I don't know who manufactures the product I've used for the last 5 years, or the different one that arrived in the post this morning, and I just read the label top to bottom.

1.5 pages of BBKA news given over to an "article" by someone from the "NOD Apiary Products Bee Health Team" about "winter bees" - though actually about Varroa control, and actually a blatant advertisement for MAQS, without even the grace to mention that other treatment options are available...

4. Wasps ?

Yep. Supers get lighter on every visit #:-/

What does a 1-handed queen catcher look like? (Sounds like a product of Messrs Heath & Robinson ;-) ) Having damaged a queen when moving between hives this year, I'm on the lookout

Also just seen it and I agree it's well worth the time. It even has some good bee-related jokes. No spoilers here, but keep your ears open At one point they take the roof off a hive and there is no crown board - possibly that might have been mainstream at the time? At another point they are...

Just spoke to a colleague in Portugal. 40 deg C! And so bankrupted by austerity they barely have a working fire service. And his wife wants him to get all their money out of the bank fast before it's too late I'll stop moaning

>> What did you do in the Apiary today? Got very, very hot Funny how no-one mentions this to new beekeepers. It seems to me that being able to cope with sweat-drenched clothes is far more important than finding the queen

Opened a Demaree'd colony that has been shut up for 10 days to be surrounded by a very noisy "swarm" of drones. They were really loud!! A little taste of what beekeeping would be like if bees were 50% bigger! :eek:

:iagree: There is an old paper here: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2049?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents It says bumbles and bees taking nectar from the bottom of the flower may shake the flowers and cause (self-) pollination And it says bees take nectar from extra-floral nectaries on beans -...

:iagree: ...and some of the uncapped honey runs out of the cells without even shaking :hairpull:

Lime. Crops: borage, if you're lucky; pollinator-friendly taxpayer-funded field-margins if you are lucky. Himalayan balsam ;-)

:iagree: Some of mine was crystal in May last year. See the comments in the parallel thread about setting in cold empty supers

Just for my education: is that simply to prevent them absconding?