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This video by Bob Binnie talks of increased dosages of 7-8g with no adverse affects The whole series is really interesting, but dosage at 12:10 on the video for those short of time! Also talks of there being no feasible way for an over dosage to taint honey, and that this was the view of US...

I love this idea!

I use a gas vap, have a pocket full of caps for it. Fill them all brim full of OA - and then zap the hives one after another If I can, the empty cap is dropped off onto a puddle on one of the hives - usually a poly one...quick sizzle and it's cooled Either way they are cool enough to recharge or...

Ah memories! I bought my first bees from there.....nasty angry bees on ancient black comb that must have been 20 years old. Quite disgraceful that GBKA let them be sold.....the newby who bought them knew no better at the time.

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I have a queen in an apidea. Only a small handful of bees and not drawn any comb She; emerged about a week ago. I am thinkng of adding her via a press in cage to a frame of emerging brood and putting her with a frame of stores into a dummied down nuc. Or is there a better idea?

Stop it !!! It's posts like this that cost bee keepers a fortune. We don't NEED it ....just WANT it

Having just bought two 2.4m lengths of crappy pine for £11 from Homebase, the rims for each floor have cost me almost as much as the wood for the underfloor entrances!!! Should have asked the guy to cut an 8mm strip off the wood before he cut it for the floors! Note for next time!

Yes, lots of options for 4 or 6mm, and 10mm but one bee space is 8mm. The 9mm strips of pine are eyewateringly expensive! Or doesn't it matter that much?

Looking for rims for crown boards etc, but struggling to find the right dimensions. I want a one bee space rim but cant find the right thickness. Any pointers?

Piriton....or the supermarket own brand equivalent

Rothernberger100%

s'funny how often these threads veer off course!

But are you sure that it wasn't the hole that Woody pecked in the tree that contributed to it's demise?

yes, feeding thin syrup

I have a hive where the queen was trapped above the QX for a couple of weeks. I was going to shake them all onto foundation and feed thin syrup to get them to draw out the foundation, then unite them with a QR colony. Instead spotted the queen and she laid up the super instead. I shook all the...

Just seen Pargyle's last post....exactly that !!

I bought some Dipel from Italy on Ebay.... a couple of years ago, it was MUCH cheaper....worth shopping around. Although Brexit has stopped a lot of companies shipping to the UK

Turn them inside out, pour a few soda crystals inside each of them and then a bit of boiling water from the kettle. both pairs at the same time, then hold tightly by the wrist and shake for 30 seconds. (Helps if you wear a pair of marigolds to heat proof your hands!) Shake - tip out down the...

Bob Binney has a video on this and suggests that only the surface layer dries out,