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It must be where you live. We still have a milk man that comes twice a week (farm eggs too) although it's a transit van now, rather than a horse and cart. A few farms that have vending machines and glass bottles, it's farm milk but the vending side of it seems to be a company that runs the...

Perhaps your out apiary looks as though it's been abandoned? Or the other beek wasn't even aware of it's location, you say 40 metres, unless the other beek scouts the area would he / she necessarily be aware of it's location?

So plant for a saleable wild salad selection and the honey is a bonus? (y)

There's loads of information on our local meadows group website: https://carmarthenshiremeadows.com/ Perhaps there's a similar group in your area?

Eristalis tenax Info from: The NHBS Guide to UK Hoverflies: Part 1

My local garden centre recycles a lot of the plastic seed trays it buys it's stock in by putting them out in a corner of their car park and inviting customers to take them away to re-use them. It's a random selection of sizes from plug trays up to larger 3 inch pots. Perhaps you could suggest...

I'll just let you all read this about treating EFB with shook swarms https://www.beediseasesinsurance.co.uk/shook-swarm-trial

You can buy silicone or latex to make your own moulds from a lot of craft suppliers.

El encabezado sugeriría polilla de cera. Disculpe al traductor en línea, mi español no es muy bueno.

You could always put another WBC in the apiaries, just the lifts, fixed together, roof and floor, no boxes or frames and store your equipment inside.

Theres a channel on yotube which reviews mouse and rat traps. The simplest and most effective one he's ever seen, and it works multiple times as it's self resetting, is called the dunk the mouse / rat trap. Fairly simple to build rather than buy, the only decision you need to make is will it...

I'd go for a small box trailer of some sort, but you'd need somewhere safe to store it while not in use like a garage or an accessible back garden and lots of locks or some sort of wheel clamp. The problem with a dedicated van is you're going to have the added expense of two lots of road tax...

If your vac bags come on a roll then cut them long, and you can cut off the sealed part and use the bag again after cleaning. I must admit when I started reading your thread I was wondering why your bee smoker needed a cabinet :laughing-smiley-014

A few years ago at the National Welsh Honey Show (at the Royal Welsh) there was a class for honey biscuits, the organisers provided the recipe. Everyone who tried to make them produced a flexible, nice tasting but no snap biscuit. It was only when someone queried the original recipe it was...

I can remember one of the stewards at the National Welsh Honey show many years ago telling me how to fill the empty cells of a "capped frame in a display case" so that every cell was full and capped. Whether his method would work or not I have no idea I never tried it. I've also heard stories...

It really depends on the size of the space you need to heat. If it's an average one car garage then a canal boat stove would be worth looking at there's lots available. If you really want cheap there's this one...

The problem isn't you with your bees though. It's everyone who gardens and farms within range of your bees that needs convincing.

08:22 & 16:08 for sunrise / sunset. but 07:41 Dawn and 16:49 dusk.

Along with the Haynes manual my association also recommends this book to our beginners. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Keeping-Bees-Green-Guides-Gregory/dp/1847869858/ref=sr_1_1? Not too in depth, but also not too daunting for an absolute beginner.

My friend used to sell them in her art shop. They're also popular with furniture makers who make beeswax polish out of them. Maybe your local wood working or turning club can sell some for you? She would sell them loose. Pile up a stack on the counter.