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I split when needed and reunite in the autumn to keep the hive numbers down over winter.

Just ordered one for less than a tenner if it doesn't work I can send it back.

I,m thinking of buying a refractometer this year,been without one for years but always a worry if the water content is right. What do others on the forum recommend?

Checked hives today added more supers as they had filled the ones I added last week ,and there was me thinking there would be no spring crop just goes to show how wrong you can be.

Checked my hives today thinking that after all the warnings they could be starving .I couldn't have been more wrong all hives bursting at the seams bringing in loads of pollen.I added more boxes to each hive.Funny how things can differ even in a short distance.

I use Santex white masonary paint,I have loads left from a job years ago .I mix artists acrilic paint with it to give me whatever colour takes my fancy. Never had any problems .

Been catching swarms for years when I first started I used lemon Grass oil and swarm attractors,didnt get one swarm.Now I just leave a brood box with an old frame and get swarms .Its not a guarantee they seem to have their favourite spots mine is on the shed roof. I,ve had a pile of roofs and...

Plenty of flowers with us but rain hail sleet and snow ,won't even risk opening up until day and night time temperatures go up.

Used to have a BSA Meteor airgun the range was pretty limited the new gun I have now from Turkey is very near to the legal limit may even exceed it .The limit is 11lb/foot I believe .The new gun will kill a rabbit at a range the old gun wouldnt even reach.

Read about it in Farmers Weekly,not sure how they will inforce it though.

I,ve given up on the met office forecasts in this area since they got rid of the people who worked out of RAE Aberporth things have gone down hill.They now depend on what a computer says instead of just using common sense and local knowledge. It always gets me how often BBC England will give a...

Given up with my ponds No longer have Fish as the otters just kept on eating them.Strange how a few years ago they were endangered now in this area they have become a bit of a pest.

Loads of frog spawn in our pond but think the ducks may have eaten it.There are loads of frogs or toads in my poly tunnel hopefully they are eating any slugs.

Noticed this week that the mallards had started pairing up and nesting.

Made an underfloor entrance with a solid floor for a change.

A few years ago had a jar of Walnuts in honey from Turkey.

I know how it feels had a fractured spine and cancer last year all better now. I made sure that there were plenty of bait hives and there were people who could step in if need be.Also made sure that the bees had plenty of space more than they would need .I did have a couple of swarms go into the...

Biggest problem I found using a mold was the sheets come out very brittle.I now make plain sheets and warm them and use a piece of pipe to roll them it makes the sheets thinner also more flexible.Bees dont mind plain sheets they draw them out just the same.

I was thinking more on the lines of what freshwater fishermen use for pole fishing.

How about using a carbon fibre fishing pole.