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Simon The Beekeeper has officially acquired Paynes Southdown Bee Farms! We’re excited to announce that Simon The Beekeeper has acquired Paynes Southdown Bee Farms! This allows us to offer the trusted Paynes Poly Hives, Nucs, and components through our website. The expanded...

somewhere a village is missing its idiot

longest routine job inspecting the hive is the occasional full frame disease inspection - maybe 3 / 4 minutes per box tops. If you need to put syrup out to distract local bees including your own then you are creating a contact point for transmissible disease, not to mention the syrup going in...

The obvious 'competent authority' for this here is the food standards agency. this is from their web site in 2023 https://www.food.gov.uk/research/honey-the-context I suspect with cutbacks the different departments will be fighting to off load the responsibility to each other

I'm always amazed at the amount of runny honey available 6 to 9 months after summer harvest, who's sellers claim that have never been warmed ;)

Unless anyone can trace their ancestry to the few individuals that possibly survived in the south of the British isle (when attached to the mainland) during the last ice age then no one is a local. even then, it's a bit tenuous...

easy enough to convert a standard brood box with moveable dividers to 2x2 & 2x3, or 2x5 nucs. Add varroa mesh on bottom of nuc brood box to use above another colony for warmth

beekeeping is as hard or a simple as the beekeeper want to make it and is more dependent on the goals of keeping bees in the first place. Its such a broad spectrum that until one looks at that, and the local conditions, I think it's an impossible question to answer You may as well ask, 'do...

that is a good price to be fair ;)

So sounds like you bought some 'bargain' frames and want them to drive your beekeeping experience. We have all been caught up in the excitement as beginners. You should see the price some manky old equipment goes for at auctions once the bidding fever kicks in. :ROFLMAO: stick to one size...

nice website

bakers Honey, or probiotic Honey at that price :ROFLMAO:

Interesting, are you looking at the diversity or totality of the biome? As with other responses, I think there are so many environmental factors involved in 'health', that I have a nasty feeling some form of composite measurement might need to be considered.

Am I missing the point here? As Corex is corrugated, isn't the CB made of this going to in direct contact with outside air through the groves in the construction?

The are plenty of chemicals used in Sugar cane treatments in the Caribbean and Africa that are banned in the Europe, but no one seems to mind about that. It's about time the UK stopped importing food that wouldn't be acceptably or legally produced here

unfortunately, there are still a lot of dinosaurs talking sh*te because they were taught it and don't have the intelligence to question the original logic. Where you also advised to have matchsticks in place?

When one is faced with hive starvation, and either feeding syrup or producing a dead colony, there is only one option, unless part of the Darwin side of beekeepers. The art is to minimize any transfer of feed to honey crop. Someone keeping a few hives in their immediate location can add /...

Plenty of imported queen bee resellers in the UK. Get them to do the paperwork for you and accept that they will add their mark up on. I've seen some European breeders referring orders to their partner resellers in UK, rather than dealing with the odd request from the UK, which frankly is...

I thought this was an upmarket Unimog. Turns out it is a custom-made hybrid from a sprinter van body combined with heavy-duty off-road Icelandic pick up mechanics, plus pneumatic suspension. Mainly used to take people up to and around the glaciers but will pretty much go anywhere. Cost -...