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Mine are stacked 5 high. Never had a problem.

An uncapping machine is a game changer as is a 64 frame extractor. 15 supers an hour is easy work.

Prices around here are low. Average for a 1lb jar is about £6 or so. Some sell small amounts for £5 per 8oz. Most bee farmers seem to be happy at £5 per lb jar around here or sometimes less which makes it hard to go much above. See it for £5.75 for 12 oz quite often. Wholesale around here seems...

Put some in a honey refractometer and see what the brix is. 2:1 is about 60-65% depends on the recipe old money or new. Best I can get syrup to in the tank at about 60c is 64-65% before it is a saturated solution. 64 brix seems fine and doesn't leave solid sugar in the feeders.

If you have some OSR honey then that is generally used as the seed. If it is entirely OSR honey there is no need to seed it at all. DICE method is easy. No exact measurement required, the more seed honey used the quicker it does the job.

If you order a fair amount it's worth ringing freeman and harding. I've never paid the website price.

Yeah, trying to find a virgin queen or a skittish drone layer after they have raised one that didn't mate.

Up to 30% I have documented in the past in an apiary of 30 hives. All superseded after the second week in September, resulting bees being very dark and aggressive.

If you warm it you can sell it as runny honey. It won't make decent soft set ever again.

Yup they imported them by the thousand after the IOW disease and WWII.

on the bright side with only 2 colonies it won't really affect you.

errm Don't they use the same line breeding techniques for bees as used for cattle ? Your ignorance is astounding.

If AMM is still the dominant breed in this country after 170 years of imports why do you want to ban imports. It obviously doesn't matter. Head up the AMM in England were brown not black. The crap you import from Ireland that has come from Europe isn't native. Thankfully hobby beekeepers don't...

You need to read more.

Genetically stable hybrid please

No

For someone with a photographic memory, this is a major brain fart. Why are people alowed to go on a personal rant under the heading of the BBKA. I know it stands for BS bluster and KA but oh my. I suppose apart from it extending the life of nosemic bees and reducing the spore load by 50% it...

I'd go for PMS. Cappimgs aren't greasy looking. Cappings with holes at the side suggesting death during emergence.

Saw something similar. She was a drone layer and the bees kept eating them.

Did you put the empty new cups in the hive to be conditioned by the bees before grafting into them?