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You basically purchased a very expensive pack of lollypop sticks. Never mind.

I use my fondant to prop open the garage door on warm days. I will pop in on later this autumn after feeding syrup.

I don‘t think I’ll get any honey this year, I’m going to leave the x1 super on both my 14x12 hives for another 2 weeks, then remove and extract what there is. Same day start feeding with strong syrup and add in my Appivar strips to both hives. I was thinking of just letting the Bee’s have the...

The only time I can't give straight or even audible answer is when my other half asks how much have I spent on setting up the Bee's... mumble, hum, ramble... normally end up with a vague answer like "ooh quite a bit"

You could always put the frames in a cedar hive box that will last 20 / 30 years and not be left in landfill for 300 years like your poly hive. Most people are stopping the use of plastics, however most beekeepers are switching from wood to plastic.... thanks to some clever marketing.

That's it, they look just like that, thank you.

There's always steam engines surely?

My Bee’s are taking something very different over the past week or so, for the first time that I’ve noticed about 30% of the bee’s flying into the hive have the tops of their heads absolutely covered in white dust / pollen. Not in baskets on their legs just their heads… but its the first time...

Absolutely no idea, just relaying what pretty much every IT company told me, plus the one we contracted with to sort the mess out.

I believe the general advice on this has changed. The random letters and numbers are not necessarily that secure as you'd think. My company email was hacked in Feb and it caused us loads of work and hassle. You have to remember that the hackers need to start with a known email address, even one...

I think uk intensive farming has had a huge impact on biodiversity in the countryside. My Parents live in a remote area and have a good amount of house martins and swifts, buzzards, but very little else. I'm in a semi rural village location, less than 5 miles from a city. I have bats, owls...

I wasn’t going to inspect them this week, but decided to this morning and glad I did, removed a queen cup and a queen cup with royal jelly inside, and that’s in my 3 week old nuc that I put in a 14x12. Everyone I spoke to said they would not try and swarm this year… but the bees decided...

I'm newer to this game than you, I've had my Nuc for just over 3 weeks, in that time frame I've fed them 1:1 syrup as much as they will take to get them to draw the comb. As of Tuesday night they had drawn fully the 5 frames of 14 x 12 that were just foundation 3 weeks ago. On Tuesday I stopped...

Thornes sell an ornamental wbc hive for £125.00 Ornamental Hive

I've noticed on my 2 that one hive tends to go to bed earlier than the other, which stays active until around 22:00. The early nighters are up and about earlier than the night owls by about a hour and a half.

The Woodland Trust have made a Tree Identification App that's free to use. Tree ID Link

Thats exactly what I thought when I saw it, a mass of queen cells cups! My hive flashed before my eyes

@REDWOOD Thank you

This is my 3rd inspection. I’ve found some comb that looks unlike anything I’ve been before. I can’t see anything like it in the books I have, It looks like loads of queen cups drawn together? iCloud link to video

I’m buying silver spoon sugar for £0.65p a kilo bag from Ocado at the moment