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Pete I will wait till you have painted all the brood boxes then make you an offer !!

Looks like half inch Tricoflex Keith . Anything but cheap ....... G

Mahonia , Winter flowering Jasmine and a lot of gorse . Sadly all covered by a few mm of snow this morning .

Good luck Keith . My colleague went direct to Apisuc , not through a middle man in the Uk . Cuts another person out of the 'profit' loop . Also as you are paying in Euros from Ireland the price can be fixed and you are not at the mercy of the exchange rate . Something else to bear in mind , the...

Google Apisuc or Belgosuc . Lots of points of contact there . My only suggestion would be to weigh it out as it comes out of the tank into ibc's or whatever bulk tanks you are going to use . We borrowed a Manitou loader with in built scales and came up nearly a tonne short on a 6 tonne load ...

Lots to choose from and no doubt lots of suggestions to come . Sherriff suits are well made and will last an age , they are a bit heavy for my taste so i went for a BB Wear all in one . This one is in its 8th season and gets worn for 2 solid days , and sometimes more a week during the Summer...

I had a long term interest in beekeeping before taking it up . It was a polar opposite from my previous hobby of 20 odd yrs co driving rally cars . I fancied a change of pace obviously ! G

I used to make mine with an entrance hole part way up as you describe but have changed to a slot at floor level . This gives the bees a chance to clean house , I found a circular hole above the floor line left a lot of debris , cappings , dead bees etc on the floor which then festered and...

It only needs one loon to anchor up in front of you and the brood box to slide a little and you could have a very exciting drive on your hands . Perhaps I should have written that first post better ! Wear your suit but with the veil down , if the need arises you can slip it on . G

And if you decide to move them in a car or van even though you have blocked them in , wear your suit ! Nothing worse than having an escapee or two whizzing round the cab . G

Itma , I agree to a certain point . I use 5s on brood frames and sn1s in the supers . But 16p a frame extra when i have 100 supers to fill is too much . But on a small scale I like the idea of having a single type of top bar . As you say it saves confusion mixing things up . G

Itma , why would you go to the cost and trouble of sn5s ? 4s are the same central spacing as 5s but the 5s have a wider top bar . sn4s over either dn4 or 5s shouldnt make any difference should it ? Or have I missed something earlier in the thread . G

Not wholly unusual, some colonies will put up with a few drones during the Winter . Or , the worst case scenario is the queen is a drone layer. Lets hope not . G

One jar of honey per hive on his ground . Frankly its a very small price to pay . Be generous folks ! G

And find a way of feeding the stores back to them next Spring . You dont want to harvest sugar syrup next year and call it honey . G

For me its when I go in on the first inspection and find a healthy brood pattern and expanding colony . Before that , impossible to tell . G

Did'nt do anything constructive but bees flying in low numbers yesterday for the first time in weeks . G

Handle them from an early age so they are used to it . Makes life a lot easier if you need to catch them up in a hurry . Dont offer an alternative to their roosting box . My Banatms found a handy perch in the garden and roost out there regardless of the weather . Came out last Winter on frosty...

Silly or not it is the right of the individual to maintain his/her anonymity . Please re read your post at 1.46pm . The reason you are able to post here is because of censorship on the other forum . Dont make the same mistake here , your writings are interesting but stick to bees and related...

Blacks fine , blends into the background better than you think , especially if security is an issue . Raised temps in the hive not a problem. G