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I agree, being able to change frames within an apiary for test frames and for adding stores to a weak colony is important. Moving between apiaries is not a good policy.

Yes that is a mere breeze, our wind speeds on the Sussex/Surrey border were forecast at around 14500. And who’s says we’re soft down south? Sh*t it’s just gone up to 15187, better strap the house down!

e It was small but seemed ok last time I had a look. There have been a lot of wasps around the two hives in that apiary so I should have closed up the entrance when I started the vaping serious a couple of weeks ago but in my haste and not wanting to disturb them too much I thought they would...

I agree with JBM (Did I just write that? 😱) Speak to EH and get your paperwork sorted and it will be a breeze with your background. I had a similar number of hives within a couple of years and now maintain nearly 100 after 9 years and have found the BFA useful for insurance, treatments and...

Gave 50+ hives their 4th vape today. Most seemed strong and very active even in the intermittent rain bringing in bright yellow pollen but I lost another colony to wasps 🙁.

You should have bought one of my nice cheap nucs at the auction. 😉

Where do you get the legs from? I’d like replacements for my 68yo ones!

Did a bit of strimming in one apiary, again the bees were more interested in the spark plug cap than me and stung it to death!!!!

What concerns me is the fact they have got YLHs as far north as Borsetshire!!!! 😱

A uk pint DOES weigh 1.25lb. As I said. 😊 a pint of water weighs a pound and a quarter

Traditionally 1/1 syrup was a pound of sugar to a pint of water. Since a pint of water weighs a pound and a quarter the weight ration of 1/1 syrup is actually 1/1.25 and hence your assumption is actually incorrect but since I can’t be arsed to calculate the density of 1/1.25 w/w syrup and the...

I see a article in BBKA news this month

Ah, good point 😁

By my reckoning there is 1.56kg of sugar in 3.5kg of 1/1 syrup therefore add an additional 1,56kg!

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That was my problem with the hobbycraft jars, they didn’t look sharp and smart.

We just have to find each other in the crowd!!!!! 😊

I could pick it up for Wilco if you want Dani. If no one else is interested.

Went to one of my apiaries that’s got 7 hives in to top up some fondant. As I didn’t want to drive across a sodden field in the wet I carried 7 small blocks of fondant the 150yrds to the hives. When I arrived it was calm and I was dressed in a waterproof jacket with a veil on my head. The bees...