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Why is that impossible for you? I just use pollen clogged combs.

...and there is very likely a different heat loss if there is a screw loose.

Best to have no other larvae to feed, only the grafts you put in. This is one of the best methods, described through Mikes video...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7tinVIuBJ8 I use a variation of this method that does not involve removing the bottom box.

Dropped the odd few over the years, not had any wooden supers break, but have had a few where the frame end lugs have snapped off. Often use empty ones as ekes when syrup feeding in autumn and when finished they are quite often thrown/flung out over a fence to pick up, bit rough, but they stick...

Looks like they have glued back together okay, what caused those two to shatter.

Looks like Coltsfoot.

Looks like wild Gean.

There is still a good chance of frost well into May...and even early June, so best leave any inspections until then. https://www.plantmaps.com/interactive-united-kingdom-last-frost-date-map.php

For those that want to drink honey through a straw it would be easier using a straw directly into a jar of honey.

It's late February, be March next Friday.

Also a system widely used in the UK, mainly by migratory commercial operations for more honey production.

Exactly, another month and a half before spring even starts.

In the first video at 18-41 he says they were completely wiped out, but he could be meaning just at the Abbey. https://beekeepingforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=27554&highlight=Monk+Honey+Bee

Read the second paper and you will see.

looks like it is classed as a medium grade...17 to 25% http://www.treesforbeesnz.org/__data/assets/pdf_file/0015/141414/TfB_2013_Pollen-Protein-Content.pdf Gorse is classed as an above average at around 28% +...

That could well of been through our ex BFA chairman David Wainwright at tropical forest honey in Wales, he imports lots of African wax, also some certified organic from Africa, etc. He has an interesting web site. https://www.tropicalforest.com/index.php

A few years back I asked Eric for some advise about foundation release solution and he told me they bought theirs from the company in the link below, same place as their equipment came from if I remember right, he did seem to know quite a bit about that German company anyway... and I have...

Are Maisie's unable to make their own 14x12 foundation?

Always use a virgin here when first stocking them with bees, once established almost always a ripe cell after mated queen removal.

Three years.