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we may need metal trays as oil baths for Small hive beetle traps under SHB type OMFs ( slightly larger mesh holes than a varroa mesh floor)

., NO, insulation a hive is more complicated than you seem to think, you need a cold area below the cluster so that you get no condensation above the cluster, so OMF open to create a condesation area below the cluster...if you wish to, then you can add a empty super (no frames) in winter under...

:serenade: appears they have found three including a drone saturday

from what i have heard, most of the follow on year intake have ended up going to new zeeland

ITLD reports he import 1200 packages , yet the figures i quoted i have now traced direct to the NBU on the NBU web site under EU import Report, so they are the official import figures of queens and packages http://www.nationalbeeunit.com/public/BeeDiseases/euImportReport.cfm so whats going...

think we saw the same twitter feeds as i sourced it from there, and bow to your superior knowledge, first source i swa showed more of the trustee's name so thought i could trust the accuracy...but then can we every trust that organization to get it right

so off the web, photo of list of imported queens, surely some 15000 queens is a large enough requirement for a viable large scale breeding program in britiain rather than import, even if using imported queens

The problem is the honey regulations 2015 do not say anything about hygiene

try this link to an american university library, lots of BBKA stuff up until 1880 to 1920's https://archive.org/search.php?query=british%20bee%20journal

I think you are right Brian, Barnet & District records show we were formed in 1911 and covered the area from Muswell Hill Middlesex to Shenley with 400 beekeepers, it folded for four years from 1916 to 1920, The chairman's son was killed in WW1 and restarted in 1921 with a WW1 role of honour...

i use 14kg (30b) buckets and the temp i do is 32c for 24hrs for filtering runny , 52c for 24hr for slurry set OSR, 52c for 36hr/48hrs for solid set OSR and i do not heat honey in jars to extend shelf life but if i did it would be 62c in water for 1hr you are not getting all the honey to 52c at...

200ha near me 3" high almost 100% up, normally the fields are too wet

try and find the osr type the farmer is growing, some OSr has a very short flowering period and yield little nectar and all you will get is pollen

i have OSR within the same distance as you, I intend to feed warm water via an entrance feeder and changing it daily in case it freezes over night and using a pollen substitute on to of an open feed holes from Mid february being six weeks from the expected date of flowering of the OSR in my area...

could it be this devon news report? this show it as Vespa Crabo not VV https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/europes-biggest-hornet-been-spotted-1945094 if anyone wants to see VC then i have a nuc full of them that they have just overun

The hull hornet was in a house and the family had just returned in their car from france so most likley a stowaway

yep, probably attracted to Hull by the smell of the fish dock like they are to bordeaux fish market

The NBU at our forum said the VV usually forage within one km of their nest and liskeard to fowey is more than that

unless it has turned from yellow/brown to ruby red with HMF it will be fine

IS IT?, https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/licensing-for-home-users-of-explosives-precursors/licensing-for-home-users-of-poisons-and-explosive-precursors, if you are not a company with a legitimate reason to buy oxalic dihydrate crystals other than api bioxal VMD approved treatments...