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So fair thee well:)

Yes, I hope they anaesthetised the bee first, otherwise it would be very painful for the poor little thing.

Well done you! Repurposing is the name of the game in beekeeping.

Yep. Looks positive, but no way am I going to open up any nests until the weather warms up!

If the bees are bringing in pollen, does that mean they are also bringing in nectar and/or the queen is starting to lay?

Best piece of advice!

IMHO. If you're lucky you might get a couple of days hot enough round about end July.

Everything now! Mahonia, furze, primrose and spring flowers, blackthorn, goat willow catkins, OSR starting to show colour....let's hope for a few days of calm and dry so the bees can get out onto it.

Cut the wax out of the frames. Scrunch up and put in a recycled bowl shaped strainer lined with kitchen paper. Place over a collecting bowl/dish. Place in fan oven at 75 degrees. Wax melts in no time. All the gunge left on kitchen paper. When cold wrap in newspaper and use as firelighters. Pour...

spring has certainly sprung! That was last week though.....but temperatures starting to creep up and forecast a bit more settled. Maybe another week or two and this horrible wet winter will be behind us. Almost time for the next round of inspections. All well so far including the colony I was...

Good for the bees - they're tough little blighters. Could I suggest, though, that you find somewhere with a bit more altitude to move them to? Winter storms not over yet!

Hear, hear!

If the Asian Hornet becomes established in the UK as it has in France we are all comprehensively stuffed. Across Essex we have an active and effective plan to stop this beast in its tracks. Complacency in France has led to an unstoppable invasion, with many colonies destroyed much to the...

Do you mean escritoire or excretoire - more than an issue in our house if the latter :)

Thorne's standard product is made from imported cedar. The budget option is home-grown.

Bearing in mind that honey bees have been around for over 60 million years, during which time they saw off the dinosaurs and survived more ice ages than I've had hot dinners, it is rather presumptuous to say that humans are saving honey bees from extinction. Whatever the long term effects...

Best fishing is either downstream a bit - pontynyswen to the confluence or further upstream than Brechfa and up as far as Crugybar And the rights are owned by whom? Just asking...…….

I like the design of the Paynes poly OMF. Any reason why not to use them with wood brood boxes? How do they compare with Maisemore's poly floors?

Spotted one blackthorn blossom during a 3 mile walk with the dog on Thursday...this morning starting to burst out in patches. Bright yellow pollen coming in (crocus?) and pale cream (snowdrop??). Temperatures still pretty low in single figures though.

How does gut bacteria end up in saliva? A bee's gut is separate from the honey sac and head.