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It doesn't always work - all those messages you've been spamming me with waxing lyrical about the sting-relieving properties of toothpaste like I told you to try ;-p Must've been typing in your sleep? 'Thanks for the tip' would've been enough, the flowers were too much fella!

So jealous EMYR (I learned, finally!) I'm 36. I've seen Leonard Cohen live several times, Mark Knopfler, Bruce Springsteen and John Martyn. Touched Nick Cave's skeletal finger when he jumped into the crowd and tried to turn Mumford and Sons away from the Green Room area at a festival as I didn't...

I'd love to have seen Mike Palmer but Northumberland is a long way to come from, and I'm not convinced Sarah Wyndham Lewis' talk is one I'd want to see - i bought her book (I was a bookseller in an indie bookshop so I bought EVERY new bee book :-p ) and she was advocating hives near cemeteries...

Im s I'm so sorry! I'm utterly ignorant on Welsh names, apologies!

Do you run any on solid floors, Bryn? I know Peter Little loathed OMF, and I'm starting to think he was right

This feels like the start of The Four Yorkshiremen sketch 😜 In 2007, I hung myself and ended up in a coma on life support for 3 days. When I woke up, the headache and stomachful of blood I vomited up (they'd pierced my oesophagus during intubation) were horrific. Kidney stones is second for me...

Kidney stones are v painful but a knackered back from a too low desk tops my list. Nearly.

I know 80% is the recommended strength for fumigation, but is that just tge threshold at which it becomes effective dyu know? Just there's 98% acetic at a better price and if it was more economic for large amounts of comb, I'm curious why people always recommend 80%? Apologies for my lack of...

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I've hypothetically got (A LOT OF) the sponges in a honeybucket for the purpose but I wonder if I poured a little more glycerin in if it'd make them more effective again, and also I'm not sotirng them frozen or anything - just in the shade under a stand outside, so I wonder if the sponges have a...

something i shall now try, apivar always leaves gaps of torn out comb so the sponges presumably won't do a great deal more damage

I'm not sure how effectively it translates over here based on how the colonies are doing 3wks or so in. I think I saw someone say they'd spoken to Randy after trying it in the UK to no effect and he suggested our humidity wasn't the correct amount for his method/dosage. I try to only run single...

I'd actually not even thought of that - too often I overthink simple things, thanks!

You, sir, are my hero, thanks!

Corrosion to the metal and wires, or to the poly boxes themselves? Thanks

Do you know if acetic is safe to use on poly though? Most of my hives are poly so would save a lot of faff and enable me to keep track of which supers velong to each colony if disease or a desire to be anal suddenky broke out. Cheers.

Thanks for taking it so literally! I meant is it okay to leave the containers with the acetic in and just leave them be overwinter - have read of lots of folk being puzzled at the amount of acetic left in containers when they'd expected it to evaporate and am unaware of how/if it'd corrode...

Yes, I know about chalkbrood and nosema - all good advice for a newbie though - wouldn't be fixing it if chalkbrood wasn't a vexation of mine. Thymolated syrup is something I prefer to steer clear of if possible - an inconsistency of mine when I'm all for knocking chalkbrood back as far as...

Can you use acetic in poly hives and are you saying you just leave the acetic acid in all winter? Cheers

Concensus online generally seems to be that sulphur doesn't kill chalkbrood or nosema, so I'm leaning towards acetic tbh, which the majority of sources state does. Acetic, air them, then DiPel is looking my likeliest route, just to be as belt abd braces as possible