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That's how I combine, but with a mixture of peppermint essential oil and water and dowse the bee's in it. always worked ok.

Any frames in supers I’ve not extracted I put under the main 14x12 brood box. Leave on for just a few days for them to sort it out… you could always just store the supers over winter “wet” I.e uncleared by the bees. Then inspect the brood box, I’ll look for about 4 frames of stores, if not I’ll...

I've not done any brassica's this year, fed up of pigeons getting in. My onions have gone flat, so I will lift them in a weeks time. Spring onions, lettuce all done okay, my runner beans seem behind with loads of flowers but no real beans yet, peas failed as usual. The sweetcorn is looking good...

Absolutely and I wasn't taming offence had you done so. Somethings got to be done on the sugar syrup sold as honey.

Yes exactly, I'd have taken a photo, but the better half took a knife to it

How can Honey be tasteless, does its origin make any difference. would it be tasteless because it's not honey?

Filled a large paddling pool up for the kiddies. inspected the hives and took 2 full supers off each. extractor up and running by 11:00 and ran out of bucket space by 14:30 so put the wets and 1 full super back on and had a cold beer. Then cleaned down and had another beer.

So I'm beginning to run out of big buckets and small buckets, could I just keep a un-extracted super in the garage for a few months?

Next year I'm going to put a couple of frames with no foundation in each super. I left a large space between two frames and they've filled it beautifully, you'd think it had an invisible frame around it.

I'm on 14x12 also , what are the benefits to you and the girls for running with no QX.

My Oz Armour is great, After its second year it now needs some mending in places where the Velcro is coming away. Talking of Ventilated suits, I bought the ventilated gauntlets that Thorn sell, I’ve been stung on the back of the hand when wearing them, the plastic mesh is just a mm or so too...

They have Becks in Germany which is very nice.

With the leather gloves I find my hands don't get as sweaty. With the rubber gloves my hands are wet through when not even half way through one hive inspection, which then makes me rather clumsy with the frames. When using the leather gauntlet gloves I lose loads of feel of the frames and...

My 2 hives swarmed early April, even my one of my swarms have swarmed. I don’t think I’ll understand Bees if I live to be 100. I now have 4 hives and a Nuc. I only wanted 2!

would wooden pellet cat litter work? or is it treated, I can't find any information to say that it would be harmful.

A swarm I hived recently and when feeding Bee's for winter will drink syrup like no tomorrow. Expect to refill a circular 2ltr rapid feeder 3 times a week.

I was given a glass or 2 of nettle beer about 30 years ago, I loved it. very refreshing on a summers day.

I love the smell of Thymol, was it in mothballs years ago, I seem to think of it as a smell from my childhood. I I love the smell of Thymol, it reminds me of my childhood, not sure but was it used in mothballs years ago? I use Thymol made into a solution and a tiny amount put into syrup and...

I've created power apps / power BI apps for loads of things, utilising Sharepoint and excel, our home is mostly controlled by AI using Apple HomeKit and works pretty much without glitches. However with regard to data collection / hive management and Beekeeping, you really can't beat pen and...

I look at the entrance for a few minutes before deciding whether to suit up or not, if its busy with plenty of action then it doesn't really matter on the time, I'd dive in. mostly though I inspect later morning, early afternoon, I never inspect after I;ve just eaten or had a drink, just in case...