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Speaking of Thymol. Who's read their BBKA comic page 34? Is Hivemakers recipe a proscribed subject among certain beekeeper groups?

Not a fan of the goon show Emyr? 🤔

A couple of my 14 x 12 polyhives are so heavy I'm not even going to try hefting them and now the ivy is in bloom they probably don't need feeding. I'll have a squint through the clear crownboards and make an assessment in a couple of weeks.

You believe a females hair colour is always true? 😳

A good few years ago I was researching some drainage after flooding. Drainage ***** and ditches led to study of the enclosures awards. It was documented that the award required certain plot boundaries to have drainage ditches dug along (within) one or more specified edges. The spoil to be heaped...

It's taken years to amass bits of phraseology. I'm buggered if I'm fretting about unlearning based on semantics now.😖

Autumn treatment to try to kill varroa that have bred through summer. Hoping to ensure optimum healthy bees going into winter. No treatment is 100% so a mop up around shortest day is also accepted practice.

I couldn't possibly comment

Best advice is get hold of a serious quantity and go off comms about it.

I've laid hedges as a younger man. My joints say I can't do it any more I'm afraid. 😖

Your choice but come spring your super will rapidly be laid up with eggs. As a point of debate, I'd suggest you stop asking the world for their (conflicting) opinions or it'll drive you crazy trying to keep up. I nadir and unless I'm slow off the mark in spring the shallow boxes are clear of brood.

Welcome to beekeeping reality. If you want nectar for the bees to forage you need to find a síte close to nectar producing flora. Note that you need somewhere that has nectar availability throughout the beekeeping season.🌼

To an engineer🔨 anything is possible. The crux of the matter is how much do you want to spend 🤔

It's a bugger when mice get into the filing cabinet and chew up the paper to make nests

Exactly so. Alternatively a 12 volt child's electric car battery...

Surprising how many garden sheds are going for next to nothing on FB marketplace. Especially if you can muster a trailer and strong helpers.

The only latin I ever had quoted to me was nils illegitemi carborundum. I guess it's correct?

Have a look on the FB group Home Workshop Engineering. Making up an adapter to a smaller standard type or even a new valve in polyethylene or polycarbonate is the sort of job some of the folks there would relish.

Since starting my beekeeping journey I've never yet encountered a warre hive or knowingly met a Warre user. Come to think of it I haven't seen a Sun Hive either. 🤔

It's available if you have the right contacts. 🙊🙉🙈