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intrigued by the vimto, what does that do?

LASI at university of sussex are saying two winter treatments of oxalic by sublimation 7 days apart means you can leave them for over a year without treatment i would suggest you may have similar results if you use oxalic on christmas day

i have commercial and 14x12 hives almost too heavy to lift ( yes i am old though ) Even over winter Buckfast queens 2 from Exmoor and 2 from steeple claydon that were two frame 14x12 nucs in July are now six frame nucs crammed with stores. i will monitor and feed a pollen substitute on my OSR...

when shopping I always look at honey prices just to make sure my honey is above the standard going price in a large organic shop chain in Muswell Hill London they have 250g of summer honey from a company called Black Bees Honey for £9.99 and that is equivalent to £18.15 per lb or £39.96 per kg...

P3 is only for mixing crystal as it is a dust filter if sublimating you need a Acid gas/vapour filter so ABEKP3 fits the job

i have hives within 50m of one of the main electricity sub station with four massive 275kv transformers that are feeding outer london, my average yield per hive is 40-50kg and max yield last year one did 95kg do i have problems, no other than i had to be police checked to use the site does...

there is a rumour i heard in Hertfordshire that this year several EFB lateral flow test kits had AFB LFT in them so gave negative results when the actual hives had EFB Has anyone else heard of problems with EFB Lateral flow devices or a recall of a batch of them

i always find it strange that people change one-third of their brood comb then find a queen cell and do a pagden swarm control The pagden changes all but one frame of comb, i always recover or fumigate the comb of the new queen box, but just keep the pagden old queen box with it new...

yep, my granfather in the 50's used to burn newspaper in any new box before using it

agree, we show our beginners cluster through glass quilt on their first January lecture...most insulated hives and all poly hives are open clustered even at 5c........and the guard bees rev up to 27c and flight out and attack

it will have an R value of about 4 per 2.5cm thickness plus a little add for the reflective surface PIR ( celloxtex or kingspan) R value is about 7-8 per 2.5cm , Wood about 1.5-1.7 so 5cm would be better but it would help

This well-respected Scientist already thinks a 300 year ice age is on its way https://youtu.be/SHGbri7gWWw

oooops, from the web Q&A Hi Michiel, I'm using formic acid as varroa treatment for bees. I have two bee hives and I can only get 1 or 4L of formic acid. This quantity may last many years so I have to store it in an efficient way. I have read that the formic acid may slowly decompose to carbon...

i had problems with MAQS i think due to high temps while storing the tubs I think the 30c+ we had in SE meant that the retailer's store got too hot, as on opening up the tubs the formic really got you. next year i will be buying early and storing in the freezer

it will taste like Chinese Honey, that is thought to be adulterated by fructose, some countries have 1st class honey (pure honey) and 2nd honey as the feed sugar in dearths

mouse guards where invented by the matchstick brigade as you had to remove the entrance block to vent the hive and hence mice could get in through the wide open entrance if you have an open OMF then the 14"x14" hole is more than adequate ventilation for a vented hive and a closed or open OMF...

i was surprise West Sussex sponsored Derick's Lecture when Roger Patterson who is their President is so supportive of the keep Them cold and ventilated brigade

? how about this of ebay would this work? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/High-voltage-Power-Boost-Step-up-Module-DC-6V-12V-to-1000V-1500V-Generator-Board/153154340740?epid=14004304547&hash=item23a8b5c784:g:omIAAOSwIjJZT9TX:rk:1:pf:0

i have seen constant voltage fence charges in the forest of dean for wild boar fencing but a)expensive B) Mains C) 5000v

could you make an ARPA with a standard 3000v horse electric fence charger and galv electric fence wire? or is a fence charger different