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Would some ducting offer the same effect? Slip a 25cm length under the hive so the bees have to walk down it

Yes, I was thinking spraying the frames when I make them with Dipel, anticipating that they will be drawn at some point, likely the same season that I make them, but possibly the next one. Once drawn the bees may put pollen, nectar or brood into them and possibly these would be attacked by WM...

True, a strong colony will deal with the WM larvae when it is on the hive, not so effective at dealing with them when the super or BB is in my garage!

My thinking was that if I sprayed the frames when I made them up it might give the frames permanent protection from wax moth

I was wondering if I could spray new frames with Dipel as a prophylactic treatment against wax moth. Any views?

Unfortunately he is now going behind a paywall

I had an indication of a premium of £140 against last years £12 Didn't bother with a quote

Bloody woodpeckers are into my poly Nucs too

I need to move a hive, where I left two supers on over winter. Wasn't able to access the hive much last year. They have all moved up into the supers and no brood in the broodbox. Plannning to just plonk the supers onto a floor and move them. One the cold snap has past I will go through find the...

Two nucs and a hive in a cherry orchard are doing well. The hive I am particularly pleased with as I thought `i had killed them off with feeding syrup. I had a poly brrodbox on with a feeder ontop of the glass crownboard, but the lid of the feeder had come off and a mass of bees had got into the...

Bamboo skewer! Tap the pointy end into the soft pine of the top bar, blob of wood glue to secure. Squeeze the two bottom bars together on the other end of the skewer and snap it off. `another blob of glue and ``jobs a good un``

Yet Aldi are still pumping out "Honey" at 85p a jar :unsure:

And......Simon the bee keeper has his Beetradex sale on too Bit of a theme developing!

Rather than the huge stacks of supers, wouldn't it make sense to extract a few during the season and give the bees the empties back. Use less equipment and easier to access?

Wax moth can get inside too. They have had no problem getting into my garage!

Does he live in Wales? :p

That's the one!

No, it's not the BDI insurance, that just covers disease though, not damage or theft. This was another policy that covered theft or damage. I took it out when the limb of a tree fell and missed several hives by inches. Told me that they would cover out apiaries, but as I never claimed it is a...

Just had an email saying that the BBKA insurance is being withdrawn at expiry because not big enough marked and the level of claims was too high... This covered theft and damage rather than the more limited disease cover from the local association. Minimum premium from other insurers will now...

Too many sell their honey far too cheaply. Guilty of this myself!