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I tend to call it a cloying reek - it's been hanging over the home apiary all afternoon

oh dear

Awfully inaccurate, you may as well just use tarot cards ah, one of them # it won't

I think Ken is in New Hampshire (as if the old one wasn't bad enough) totally different style of beekeeping needed to here. Either that or New Holland which is so close to the Humber that everything is damp!

the downsides of home working - going to the office and having a dump when you arrive, the dual benefit of pinching one off on works time and saving money whilst doing it.

ah, the usual uninformed obsession with condensation and 'ventilation'

how did you measure it? why would the fact they were 'new' colonies make any difference? how many supers? how much honey was in them OA is never a problem, ideally, you should have started treating a bit earlier but if we are talking if sublimation I would get straight in there now and give...

............and I said it's far better to shake them out

a) you don't say whether it's laying workers or a DLQ b) regardless of that the whole colony is doomed and a total waste of resource. The best return you can get is to shake them out, at least any 'useful' worker will find her way into a viable colony and be of some use until she dies.

no, midwinter it's fine to move them less than three miles, wait for a cold snap, but not absolutely freezing (because if they are in a tight cluster and some fall off the cluster, they are too torpid to return) and after a few days, move them, just don't bump them about too much.

Was bored and the weather is nice so made up a gallon of thymol emulsion which means I'm OK for a couple of years again before going through the fiddle - found lecithin powder rather than granules on amazoon and in smaller quantities so less waste as Most ends up getting claggy after a year or...

no, wearing leather gloves is never normal - unless you're hedge laying

they chop and change directors/company names so frequently it's surprising they know which office to turn up at.

everything's fine, to be honest this fixation with 'winter bees' is getting rather silly and just a distraction that people need to grow out of.

make it 50

...... in the end, if I had decided to make all my kit from scratch, I wouldn't be killing myself building national hives.

Living in a tupperware box you mean?

yes, but we all know that all that is hype churned up by the usual crowd to attract funding/donations the truth about neonic treatment is a bit different, I wonder how many 'nasty' chemicals get pumped into the environment at basically unregulated sugarcane plantations set on making profit above...

I wouldn't class that as thick - my shed has sturdier walls!