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They are banned already, as a means of measuring for trade. Because they aren't either accurate or consistent. Even with the same spoon, different people will give different measures.

NO. Wrong on facts and understanding. As explained previously, pressure, on its own, has almost nothing to do with solubility of solids in liquids. Pressure does allow a higher maximum liquid temperature before the limit that boiling sets. Thus, under pressure one can achieve a higher...

Hopefully long buried and forgotten - OK, I wish. That method depends on the crystal size, smoothness, and the amount of vibration you give it to 'settle' the grains of solid before marking your level. Have you ever bought a pint or litre of sugar? How about buying soap powder or cornflakes...

Nope. Its 2 pounds (in grams) to one pint (in ml). And if you reduce that 908:568 ratio to simpler numbers, its 60:37.5 ... which is a lot closer to 60:40 (3:2) than to the 60:30 (2:1) which mistaken metric users struggle with.

Or 60:37.5 which I reckon can be approximated to 60:40 (or 3:2)

European hornets will not kill off an entire colony. The Asians will. Reportedly there are some Asian hornets already with you in Portugal, but you'll certainly tell the difference when they get to your area ... Enjoy the limited threat of the European hornet while it lasts.

Bump again. About time there was a 'sticky' link to this resource ...

Knocking down 'wet' (or sealed) Queen Cells on sight isn't a good idea. Play cups are a normal part of the hive scenery and can be ignored. Its useful to distinguish between the two. If your unmarked Q is two weeks or less since emergence from her cell, it is not reasonable to expect her to...

With a poly hive, you aren't going to increase the insulation much by adding (loose) fat dummies. Wedge in blocks of celotex so that the walls are effectively thicker, and you would improve the insulation of the end walls - but since the side walls (and roof) were unimproved, you wouldn't be...

If there was a lot of truly empty comb available in the broodnest and they were nevertheless trying to swarm, then requeening to a less-swarmy strain (selecting against the early-swarming trait) makes sense. This does NOT require "buying-in a non-local queen". At about this time of year, many...

Frames need to be sorted. Any that you think will be completed can be left above. Any that are barely started can be put below the brood. The bees will move it up, and if its 'ripe', it'll help fill some cells to capping point. (There may be a 'cost' of perhaps 20% of the moved honey being...

Made in Finland ... ! I think that sort of condensation problem must have been what happened to you. I've had no problem with branded Ambrosia. And I've still got some left over from the winter before last, not fermenting in an opened (but re-capped) jerrycan.

Even if there were 3/4 sides of empty, drawn comb in the hive (which, as I said, sounds a bit strange), if it was beyond full stores frames or foundation frames, it wouldn't be properly 'available', and if Q doesn't find it, it might as well not be there. As I said, more detail needed for an...

Thing is that metric 2:1 (66%) is bang on the limit of solubility, so if you don't measure carefully, any error making it too strong is going to lead to complaints of "it won't dissolve' or "its started to crystallise". Backing off to metric 60:40 (3:2) (or 2 pounds to a pint) means that one...

Reasoning being that the number of emergency cells that the bees can adequately provision (and thus the number that the bees will make of their own accord) is normally considered to be proportional to the strength of the colony. (Hence the manipulation to make super-sized colonies as...

Brood on 3 frames and 10 QCs sounds to me much more like swarming than Emergency. Not sure how you might have a weak colony but with an "actively laying Queen", that you are feeding syrup to, and yet you still have about two full frames of empty drawn comb that is not being used for...

Sorry but I think this is UNhelpful advice for beginners. And being the beginners section the advice should be straightforward and uncontroversial. The amount of white sugar (sucrose) that will STAY dissolved when it is cooled down to top-of-hive Autumn temperatures, say 15C, can be found...

How many frame-sides-worth of fully-drawn but empty cells are available for Q to lay in?

Don't even think of buying *drawn* frames. Insulate. If the bees are in a full hive, use a dummy board to bookend the frames they are using plus (at most) two of foundation. Those frames to be tight to one side/end of the hive. The ideal place for the undrawn frames (one at each side of the...

Precisely my opinion based on experience and observation of others. As I said before, frames make things easier for the beginner.