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It would only be a problem if there was a TPO (Tree Preservation Order) on the tree, which as you report it's in the middle of woodland is unlikely unless there's a blanket order (not sure if that's possible) for the whole woodland.

It doesn't help when one of our own posts a video without context: It got one of our members in quite a tizzy last night as they thought there was an Asian hornet spotted in Carmarthenshire. It turned out later the beek is currently on holiday in France but it would be nice if the caption...

I was also looking at these: https://coldsmoking.co.uk/products/dry-age-bags Dry age bags, so rather than smoking they dehydrate meat so you end up with, I assume, Jerky or Biltong style meat.

If you can build a beehive you could easily turn your hand to one of these: https://coldsmoking.co.uk/products/stacker-cold-smoker-plans?

If you're adding honey which is a liquid, to a recipe that was written for sugar make sure you remove some of the other liquid, in this case milk. Or you'll end up with a mixture that either takes a very long time to each the correct temperature or the fudge won't set.

It sounds like the trumpets, if they're reporting from the NBU document that they've added all the reports up, rather than reading it as the progression it actually is.

Well a quick search on the web show numerous stories in various online newspapers, all the articles read the same so they've come from one source. The only confirmed case they all report with photos of the insect and the nest are from a beekeeper in Thamesmead. There is also a guardian article...

I've got some of those, I needed them for a leaky car recently. They are half full of crystals that absorb water that turns to gel. You're supposed to then throw them away when the crystals are all consumed, but I found you could take them apart (you have to cut off the membrane) and wash the...

Buy the car back from the insurers, get a secondhand door and mirror from a scrap yard changing them over should take someone who knows which end is which on a spanner about a day and off to uni goes your son. Does it matter if the door isn't 'in colour' well that's up to your son.

Roast squirrel stuffed with walnuts, yummy. :laughing-smiley-014

Make sure you get the UK edition though, as the American version has a chapter about protecting your hives from Racoons. Another book to add to the list would be Green Guides to Keeping Bees by Pam Gregory and Claire Waring.

If it were me I'd be asking to speak to others that have already had it done, if there isn't anyone I'd ask for a longer period of free service, say ten years (transferable if the house were to be sold). I'd also wonder how many of the proposed houses on the new developments will have the plant...

Also an article in the telegraph. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/08/16/stolen-bees-found-raid-llangollen-wales-apiary/ The suggestion in the article is that the original location of the hives may have been posted on a local Facebook group warning dog walkers of the potential for stings.

Setting up as a self employed person (sole trader) in the UK is dead simple to do. So getting a trade account isn't that hard, it will just take a bit of time. If you're already selling honey then you're half way there already. The only thing you need to be aware of is that Bookers aren't...

The problem with Ian's tracker buried in the box, as others have already said is the first thing a savvy thief will do is remove the frames to a new box and burn the old ones, the tracker would go on the fire unless it's small enough to embed in a frame? Maybe with these new plastic frames...

Ideally also screw the stands to either a concrete pad or slabs.

My old mentor kept some tobacco leaves for smoking her cranky bees with. No idea where she got them from, may even have grown them herself in her greenhouse and yes JBM they were tobacco and not another smokable plant :laughing-smiley-014

https://www.koppert.com/products-solutions/pollination-products/

Farm foods Store Finder used to be cheap (I don't know if they still are) go to their website and sign up for discount coupons. The more you buy the more discount you get so at one time it was possible to buy loads of sugar for a very good price.

Watching the videos last night it seemed the younger people using it were struggling to force the frames through as they needed a bit of effort. Is that normal or was it just thick frames? Also any plans to provide a cover for the bands as in some shots it looked like rubber gloves were in...