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What about simply removing a couple of frames of brood and using them to strengthen a weaker colony? Replace them with drawn brood comb if you have it, or foundation if not. This will cool down colony expansion and give more space in the brood box. Additional summer bees in a bursting hive...

I think its impossible to know with any accuracy and also many feral colonies are now in roof spaces, chimneys etc rather than in trees. I have been watching one for 7 years now; it died out in august of its 4th year and was robbed out. The site was then re-occupied the following May and is...

There are two refractometers that you see on ebay and from the outside they look identical. The diference being that one is for fruit juice/alcohol etc and the other is for honey. The former can be calibrated with distilled water, the latter with virgin olive oil. The scale on your...

No need to move them if youre happy they came from your own hives. The only reason to move a newly caught swarm is if you are unsure about their disease status. Otherwise its best to place the swarm in its future permanent position.

Might you have inadvertently killed the queen during your inspection on 28 june, or caused the workers to kill the queen? Queen cells made from older larvae would just be capped by 4 July and those from eggs would still be uncapped.

Surely its a matter of five minutes work to cut off the two pin plug and replace it with a three pin? There was a time that everybody knew how to wire aplug.

If you expect to get a nuc in the near future, the best you can hope for this season is to allow the colony to build out. Thus you shouldn't need to use the super element of the flowhive until next season. As I understand it, most flowhivers remove the super element for winter. If using the...

When I first read it I thought the 'three frames of brood' were the one frame partly started and the two of foundation... That would be a bad deal...

That says enough. People who think they're above the rules in their own country and in the country of destination.

I had that in the past with one colony. I saw it during the winter and the colony never came right. Queen never laid properly, it dwindled and i eventually shook it out. The floor was one I made myself, and i think the distance from the mesh to the tray was less than typical. I thought that the...

If several dowsers, unbeknownst to each other, were asked to find ley lines in a field, would they find the same lines? It seems a rather basic experiment to see if there is actually something there or not...

How do you get the propolis from the slumgum?

I think old tree fungus can sometimes look black and tarry...

I'd say varroa would be resistant to this almost instantaneously. The kill was only very partial "The mites were 70% more likely to die on the treated bees than untreated ones" How many mites die naturally on untreated bees? A minority (say 10%). And treatment only increased this by 70% (that...

all about marketing. Plastic shoes used to be downmarket until some bright spark got the idea of calling them vegan shoes....

Yep, its snake oil sold from the USA. Unapproved product too. Avoid.

Do not consume if methylated spirits has been used to dissolve it.

Thats a Health Claim. Not Allowed. I don't believe any health claims have been approved for honey. This because every comb is different.

The acceptable limit is never set at the toxicity level (where first effects are seen). I think 1% of it might be typical.

This is the Irish research; https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308814618314365?via%3Dihub It found: – Honeys with a dark colour typically have a higher total phenolic content and thus a higher antioxidant capacity. – Urban multifloral honeys had a higher total phenolic...