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I've wondered if they will be ok, pellets online cost a small fortune so was planning on getting some cat litter pellets to give them a try.

Glad your feeling better, your line about the cleaner isn't too far from the truth in many occasions.

Not quite sure the issue with a bloke actually earning a living, when attending my local association meetings Thornes catalogues are placed on tables from time to time, no one is up in arms at this as far as I have seen, people pick em up and read or leave them be. No one is forced to click on a...

I use the insulation you get for "free" when ordering meat from online butchers. Providence Village Butchers sent their products in a nice woollen insulation about 2 inches thick.

The only Hive I've purchased in a kit is still in a kit in the garage. Life's too short, much prefer to buy the bits ready made.... on that note its not too long until Christmas, deep joy, trying to find one of my two screwdrivers to put together the kids play kitchens or shops that should take...

This is what I’m planning on doing with only 2 14x12’s I will start looking around on what to do later this month, be ideal if you could buy it premixed for those of us with just a few hives, I’ll do some searching online

https://octopus.energy/go/rates/

So the rate for new customers for my postcode at Octopus is; £0.05p at night, so a slight increase, your quite correct the daytime rate has doubled to £0.24p but the daily standing charge has dropped by £0.03p a day.

I don't think you get better than Octopus at the moment. I pay £0.4.76p to charge my Tesla at night + dishwasher / tumble dryer / washing machine etc which has cost me £20 for the month compared to £350 in petrol, their standard rate is £0.12.75p which is less than OVO and the daily standing...

Do you really need extra frames, my Nuc box that if I remember right was 6 frames, take 6 new frames out of the hive to drop the frames out of the Nuc with Bee's on, and put the empty new frames from the hive into the Nuc box. I can't see why he needs to buy additional frames, one counters the...

I oiled my new cedar hives in the summer, already going black, it’s the worse thing I did. In the depths of winter and they are quieter I’m going to clean the exteriors off with washing soda.

The worse thing about having Kids, CBeebies and Mr Tumble. Hate him with a passion…. And the little ones love him!!

Same here

Thank you very much, always great advice from you all. I think I’ll Nadir the one hive I’ve taken honey from, and take the Apivar from the other hive pronto and see if that gets me some honey, leaving the super in place above the brood box for another couple of weeks

Thank you I’d not thought of that !

Thanks for your advice and comments really helpful as always. I wasn’t planning on taking any honey now. So the replies got me thinking, if I do as @jenkinsbrynmair says and nadir the super below the broodbox in the hive I’ve taken 3 frames of honey from and leave the apivar in place. The...

Hi. I have 2 hives both 14x12 both purchased as Nucs in early July this year, Brood / Bee’s over all frames on both hives and both hives have had one super on for the past month. Hive 1 has drawn out the super frames across 7 frames of the super and 3 frames full but not capped and very runny...

I only tried once the shredded cardboard that Thorns pack stuff in, it wouldn't burn and smoker kept going out, you have to check for plastic, its very contaminated, I just put in the recycling now.

Any cedar hive would be suitable

I think this just shows that like us all our Bee’s are different and there is no written rule about how close to safely go without a veil on. I can sit on a bench, to the side of my bee hives and watch them all day from around 2 feet away. If I stand two meters away on their flight approach, I’d...