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While not too late to reduce the varroa (if necessary), you have missed the boat for the production of healthy winter bees if the loadings are very high. Unhealthy winter bees, that have been infected by varroa nymphs feeding on them while pupating) cannot be a best recipe for good winter...

S’pose it might depend on how wide the wellies might be and how fat the beekeepers legs are. Trousers over the boots - I would not want bees in my boots if an accident occurred where bees were dropped. Likewise suit over gloves. Bees will get in, if possible, if they are more than feisty. Not...

Emphasis on “if all goes well”? Fewer if all does not go so well. Even fewer if mites are tucked away in capped brood!

3 yard rule? How to lose bees.

I see a deal of advertising hype going on here.

How tall are you, Phil? Only storage and you have to quack every time you enter or leave, and can only access the edges by leaning over?

Roche, are you sure that shed is not actually, really, truthfully, imperial but an honest metric 3.6m x 2.5m? Please note that 8 feet is only 2.44m, so you might be disappointed if trying to erect it in a ‘tight’ space of only just 8 feet.

Going back to calcium chloride absorbing water (actually sufficient for it to be termed deliquescent), is that a chemical reaction? I think not in the chemical bonds sense. Initially it is simple hydration - probably only a matter of water of crystallisation and latterly dissolving in the...

Not heavily infected, but virtually all the mites could be tucked up in brood, if there is enough brood and not so many mites….

I expect it will be bottom space but worth checking. I prefer top space.

Ha ha, my first thought was “there are enough on here that talk s—t. They must get it from somewhere!”:):)

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Sander paper?

Care to describe? I used a vacuum pump and silica gel (or sometimes conc sulphuric acid) to dehydrate radioactive counting samples, back in the last century.

My reply, if you didn’t notice, means you can skimp it completely if he is able to turn a frame adeptly and doesnt intend extracting (radially) those frames. So, by extrapolation (or perhaps interpolation?) he can work it out for himself without further ado. In my book, amount of frame wiring...

Question might be: Do you extract from deep frames? Otherwise, unwired is quite satisfactory after a few brood cycles have stiffened the frames a little (for those that are not well practised in inverting frames). One needs to be very careful with 14 x 12 frames until they get well ‘reinforced’.

Degree educated(?) and don’t know how/where to look for information? Google is a good place to start.

Circuit protection costs money. Reduces profits. Chinese manufacture (in particular) can be very very good, but likewise it can be cheap and nasty. One is unlikely to get ‘industrial’ quality for the home-enthusiast market - the ‘average’ customer just wants something that works and is...

Doubtful.

It is a safety switch, not an adjustable thermostat.