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CBD does show up in drug tests. A friend living in Portugal had car insurance cancelled as a result.

Made that mistake last year. Just open it up, put fondant in and go. I had done it a couple of times no problem. 30 seconds is how long it takes. First colony no problems, second colony went for me big time. Ended up with about 12 stings on my arms and back of neck. Was quite ill for a few days...

I think they were joking. You are not expecting a romantic involvement ?

Problem is she is not new to beekeeping been doing it for years. She went around telling everyone my colony did not fail because of poor queen but lack of treatment for varroa. I put Apiguard on at the right time and vape at the right time. It was duff queen.

No idea. I think she maybe thinks it reduces Varroa and less 'useless' eaters to feed. I just ignore her now if she turns up at club meets.

Well I do that every day but with coffee. I did have a quick look under the roof and they were all over the fondant but that's all I am doing right now.

That colony always produced poor queens. The original swarm came from someone who said she always had trouble with poor queens. She kills all her drones and complained about bees getting angry when she opened hives in the rain ! She offered me another last year and I said I hope the queen is...

Quite a few flying today. I am on here for the advice and I just got some. LEAVE THEM ALONE RIGHT NOW !

The T shirt weather lasted about an hour. Took the dead hive apart and cleaned and scorched it. There were what looked like some Wax moth cocoons lurking, they are gone. Cheers.

Can I render the wax down from the frames they were on? Should I put the untouched frames in the remaining hive. Not sure about opening them up right now, wait a bit ? Would that give them a head start for filling supers?

The weather is at T shirt level right now and not raining, so I opened up the dead hive and it looks like starvation. Lot's of dead bees heads in. Four frames of untouched honey in the centre and they decided to cluster at the back. That duff queen has made her last crap decision. Blessing in...

Join your local club. You will learn lots and meet people you wouldn't normally have anything to do with but a mutual interest in keeping bees makes for strange bedfellows!

I would imagine every prospective mentor came up against this solid wall of blind dogma and just walked away..........like I did.

I was given 'The Beekeeper of Allepo' but to be honest I did not enjoy it.

I believe it was an Einstein quote

She is an old Hippy , she ain't got that long !

I think Wasps and Hornets maybe your main customers for the jam !

I met a women at a party in Frome just before Christmas. A fellow Beekeeper I was told. I thought great we can share ideas. "I have two Warre hives and I refuse to treat for Varroa because natural selection will give me Varroa resitant Bees. I'm having trouble getting a mentor and my colonies...

I opened it up briefly the other day but rain stopped play.....again. Plenty of well sited stores and they were treated for Varroa with Apiguard and a couple of Oxalic vapes. That colony has always produced poor Queens and I suspect she pegged it and that's that. Not at all productive. Blessing...