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My daughter is senior communications manager for Compassion in World Farming and has spent the last decade trying to get live exports banned because it’s cheaper to cart animals across Europe to slaughter than do it in the UK and send them frozen. They finally got the UK government to ban it...

Have a chat with your local Bako rep you should be able to get them down to a price of £15/12.5kg. They deliver free to me on a Tuesday for a min order of £150

I would throw the 3 Q- in a box with a Q+ one. They get on with it.

The gardener at one of my clients is still using 7 year old DiPel and says it still seems to be working. The vineyard at another clients estate emailed me to say they we spraying DiPel on the vines asking if it was a problem for the bees. I’m sort of hoping it might kill the wax moth in the hives! 😂

Nice to see you here Gill. You and your minions have always given me great service especially regarding replacing 6 Konigin controllers! 😁

My pallet arrived within about 5 days!

But the shape of the Maisie’s wood negates the need for steel runners.

Been to clean up this morning at 0545 before the bees were up. Most of the bees from last night had returned to their hives and the bees in the bucket were not drowned as there was only a few mm of honey in there. Did a bit of a clean up and sealed up the door where they were squeezing through...

Just been to collect some stuff from my honey room only to find that the bees from my adjacent hives seem to have found a way into it. Early tomorrow I’ll be sealing it up with gaffa tape!

I often get them in one of my apiaries, they love to hide under the roofs as well.

I agree, I sell to my local shop with a different size jar and different label so the punters don’t compare.

I do the same twice a year and always sell quite a bit of honey. (30-40 jars in a 3 hr period) Unfortunately most of those sales are to my normal customers so sales from my house shelves suffer for a couple of weeks 🙂 but it’s worth it as its a great opportunity to chat to my customers.

It would if course depend on how many hives you hypothetically treated! 😂

If I was the type of beekeeper that vaped as varroa control, I’m sure this, that arrived on my doorstep would sort me out for a few years.

Bees and wasps showing a lot of interest in the extractor fan from my honey room . 😀

The losses were in several different apiaries so not just one nest. 🙂

Wasps are with me in spades! I’ve lost 5 weak colonies and 3 mating nucs in the last couple of weeks. They were all over the cleared supers this morning desperate to get in at any crack. They were also in my honey room today. I never mind a few bees buzzing around but wasps in another thing!

I would say the big difference between the two is the sieves. I’m struggling to find any 415mm food grade stainless sieves on tinternet so would assume these could be an expensive item if the had to be made to order.

Those rescues look in pretty good nick James. We have been having them for the last 15 years and some of our girls wouldn’t have looked out if place on a chiller shelf in Sainsbury’s! As others have said it’s wonderful to see them refeather and blossom in their new surroundings.

Great story 😊. Unfortunately my offender has not posted the additional cash through the letterbox but the posting on Facebook has generated at least another 4 costumers who saw that decent honey was available in the area. What is it they say about silver linings? 😁