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...shallow, more for a standard national deep or for a commercial shallow or deep.

Depends on the size of the supers.

Pounds... lbs.

Many of them are not, even having poly hives, they are now buying vast numbers of wooden hives instead.

I am, being as no one can possibly know what the temperature is going to be on each and every day for the next month and thereafter.

Agree, the temperatures can be very variable, maybe best to put them on, on warm days... and take them off on colder days.

Haven't seen any worse over wintering, but haven't seen any better either.

Strips of timber, sometimes the bees wax the sides up a bit and a float is not needed, but if the float sticks onto the bottom of the feed chamber when empty we loosen it from one end with a long screwdriver, takes a couple of seconds and the float is loose again to float up. Regards feeding...

If that were to happen I wouldn't be using them, but it doesn't, so I do.

One of the nuc boxes best attributes.

Have two springs here with regards many things flowering, early in the valley and three weeks to a month later out over. OSR is also flowering in parts of Scotland now. Only 25 to 27 days away from the first grafts of the season...rain or shine.

Some fields of OSR in full flower now, miles of butterbur, wild garlic and dandelions also in flower, among other things. Certainly no shortage of forage now in this damp but mild weather.

Yes okay from your own hives, just put it in your mouth and chew.

Bees also taste salts with their feet. https://www.livescience.com/43103-bees-taste-with-feet.html

They are very good, also use a lot of Paynes poly Warre hives here.

I have mesh screens which I put in the poly tunnel doorways when the doors are open, otherwise the bees just go in there and die trying to get out.

Not heard anything about it, certainly not been asked by any of the honey packers to put labels on the barrels stating the honey may contain nuts, but if they do require it in future...no problem. Did see a "may contain nuts" warning on a bag of Brazil nuts once though.

Gales here, trees blowing over, torrential rain, rivers flooding over the banks, roads flooded...about normal really.

Fed fondant to lots of mini nucs... and fed syrup to lots of 6 frame nucs, marked out some that were syrup fed two weeks ago that will be getting double broods next week.

probably, maybe need some internet police to check every website in the world forever.