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Yes it is, Steve.

I bought a Konigin 24 frame swing basket extractor a couple of months ago, but most of my extracting equipment is Lyson, will still keep the large Lyson radial extractor alongside the Konigin machine.

You could freeze the combs and scorch any wooden hive parts or clean with a strong bleach solution if poly. I used to do this acetic acid fumigation stuff years ago, but no longer bother, found it's not needed, have effectively treated heavily infected Nosema colonies and not changed any combs...

Yes he does, he has mentioned it on here several times.

When doing a Demaree they will usually build some emergency cells in the top box anyway, you would normally destroy all of them and any empty combs from the top box can be put into the bottom box and replaced with more combs of brood to the top box, thus always giving the queen plenty of laying...

In a Demaree the bees are not separated, the brood or as much as possible is in the top brood box, the queen is in the bottom box with as much laying space as possible, the bees still have access through the queen excluder/s, in a Pagden artificial swarm they are completely separated, which is...

No, it's not.

....another is Philip Argyle, also Luke Taylor.

Use a variation of the nuc method here sometimes, depending on the time of season. Used to take the queen along with a frame of brood and a couple of shakes of bees, but now just take the queen and a cup full of bees into a queen excluded mini nuc. All frames with brood in the colony are...

That's because you keep on treating them... making the surviving mites from your treatments stronger and stronger over the years... and always becoming harder to treat.:spy:

Nosema Apis has been pretty much displaced by Nosema Ceranae, freezing is quite an effective way of killing the spores. Found that Thymol also works well.

Yes, almost 50 years of this beast nonsense here as well.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beast_of_Exmoor

That time of year again already, big cat sighting time, should draw the tourists in, again.

Old post, he hasn't been on here for seven years.

Best to leave well alone now for eight to ten days.

Apart from the quick routine swarm checks using double brood, about one minute per colony and a lot less disturbance, there is the advantage of being able to do an artificial swarm or reverse artificial swarm or demaree and the only extra bit of equipment needed is a crown/flight board, can even...

The frames the bees build it in.

Single bin bags are okay providing the combs and the boxes have been properly/well fumigated.

I have watched a couple of documentaries about Pripyat, i think his name is Vasyl Sokirenko. Scroll down the page in this link. https://www.rferl.org/a/chernobyl-land-of-milk-and-honey/27686610.html

(1) National, Commercial, Langstroth. (2) National, built to the correct spec, and using standard deeps. (3) National.