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Keeping (or getting back) to the beekeeping theme... In a statement made by the UK Home Secretary to the House of Commons yesterday. she stated: "...we will establish a humanitarian sponsorship pathway, which will open up a route to the UK for Ukrainians who may not have family ties with the...

If they do not cancel it then I suspect that will be the end of Apimondia. Most country associations will probably pull out from the organisation. We can at least lobby to ensure that BBKA / WBKA / SBKA / CONBA does.

Any news from or of Podilia? I see that he has not posted for a couple of weeks. He is located in Vinnytsia Oblast, which as far as I can see has not been reached by Russian forces yet. And any news from any other forum members in Ukraine?

The NBU's qualifier " It is necessary to make a number of assumptions in the calculation, and so the figure is classed as an experimental statistic. " is telling , and the figure of 272,631 colonies suggests spurious six figure precision. Nevertheless, the figures, or the NBU's assumptions...

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Tried monofilament. My bees rapidly eat through it. A reel of proper frame wire lasts for a long time, but I found that the non stainless wire tends to rust. Easy to pull tight with pliers.

Next to useless since 2010 when they banned the use of dichloromethane (DCM or methylene chloride) from all paint strippers

https://beekeepingforum.co.uk/threads/pollen-substitute-ultra-bee.41084/#post-609460 https://beekeepingforum.co.uk/threads/spring-build-up-or-not.41220/page-2#post-614349 and in action here:

Any idea what sort or brand of hive monitor they were showing? Wood's Apidictor will be 70 years old this year. With the proliferation of technology, and it getting ever cheaper, there seems to be geometic growth in the systems being suggested and offered. There are times when I even wonder...

..and it comes in ten different languages. How many people buying these things speak all those languages?...

That gives us nearly a month to come up with suggestions for questions to ask him...

Surely an opportunity for Darwinian selection?

It would appear that it is only the sticks that the EA would object to, not the rest: https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5802/cmselect/cmenvaud/74/report.html

Each bee worships it own deity?

...and if playing Pooh Sticks, care should be taken with diposing of them afterwards:

Don't be too reassured. The Fecal Occult Blood (FOB) test has been around for around a century and is not that accurate, but neverthless has been amply demonstrated to be very useful. (Diagnostic Accuracy of FOBT and Colorectal Cancer Genetic Testing: A Systematic Review & Meta-Analysis ) There...

Complete failure, but I do not think it was the kit. Bees seemed to like them, built comb round them, even developed some of them into worker cells, but none into queen cells. Perhaps the queen pheromone was still too strong in the Ben Harden box. I will have another go in the coming season...

I routinely put a couple of ccs of water in the pan and put the lid on, between 'vapes' to keep the nozzle clear.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-59865342