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“Tremendous” is a rather subjective rem. Many are prone to exaggeration. ‘Closing the door after the horse has bolted’ comes to mind. IF the drop is tremendous, the winter bees have already been compromised. Fingers crossed (can’t do anything more) that they survive the winter, let alone as...

I’ve never yet used a dehumidifier to reduce water content in honey, but I do use them to keep my workshop dry. Cheap desiccant machines on ebay are a good source of non-runners. Any competent person can usually repair them at minimal cost. :) Only need a small draught-proofed room to carry...

Do all remember that while winter trickling may kill off most mites it is like ‘closing the door after the horse has bolted’. If varroa loads were high when the winter bees were being brooded, those bees may well be adversely affected over the winter period. Think here of life expectancy...

It happens. I would not recommend any new beekeeper to buy colonies in the autumn. There may be some that do and some of those might well lose their colony/money…. I would certainly not take, or advise, that risk.

Only if your chimney needs sweeping. But as already posted, no real problem and why waste wax.

I didn’t start school until ‘53, so you have a few years on me.:) All our school milk was in 1/3rd pint bottles. A regular Co-op delivery arrived every week after a Mr France/Francis wrote down the order every Friday afternoon while seated at the kitchen table. A mobile butcher van visited...

Read the power requirement from your sublimox. You should then be able to work it out yourself!

We didn’t have milk delivered when I was young. It came straight out of the churn, after being cooled. One uncle used to dink a whole quart of warm milk, straight from the milking machine bucket (or churn) every morning when he visited. One advantage was when milk was in short supply, and...

Fingers crossed. There may be two queens in there or just one. There may be one virgin and one mother queen, or just one queen - either a drone or worker layer. Colony may not even survive. But now is not the time to worry. Too late for that. It will be what it will be. Finman may be...

A stethoscope is a handy piece of kit, as is a thermometer. If the colony is alive you can hear them (especially after a light tap - but don’t tap with the stethoscope on the hive.🙂). Crown-board (under insulation) will be somewhat warmer than ambient - often obvious from feeling with your...

Normally bees generate moisture in the cluster and this will follow the same principle as above, leading to condensation on the exterior walls which the bees then drink Amazing how all these ideas proliferate. I can just see bees leaving the warmth of the cluster to get moisture,from a very...

JBM, No need to say anything more than that. Remember that 50% of the population…? It applies all of the time.:beatdeadhorse5:

The method of treatment is 5ml/seam of bees. That has no connection to any particular colony size, surely? One seam - 5ml, or ten seams - 50ml in total (but 5ml/seam). Just read the instructions carefully and follow them precisely. There should not be any ambiguities within those instructions.

How can that be a 'win, win'? It is still burning fossil fuels. It is still adding to the atmospheric CO2. If you think that is acceptable in any way shape or form, please think again! It is similar to the Canadians burning the tar sands to extract the remaining oil, for burning in the USA...

Day or night attacks? Unlikely to be a bird at night.

What we know is that varroa numbers can increase exponentially - by a factor of about 2 every brood cycle, or so. Maybe the problem might be the vendor selling bees with varroa that are resistant to fluvalinates. If only 50% are killed by apistan, the bees can be back at pre-treatment levels...

Fact check: Wrong wrt beehives - as usual. Poster makes claims without checking (or being capable of checking?) before posting rubbish. Some people need to realise that plastics are here and not going away. The waste in the oceans is down to humans, not particularly plastics. We have known...

Fact check: Wrong wrt beehives - as usual. Poster makes claims without checking (or being capable of checking?) before posting rubbish. Some people need to realise that plastics are here and not going away. The waste in the oceans is down to humans, not particularly plastics. We have known...

And I still have Dani’s surplus polyhives, from a few years ago. Still a sort of camouflage brown but still good.

Just as my late addition to the thread. As per Hemo, the mites had likely been made resistant to apistan by the vendor - who is clearly an idiot IMO, to say the least. Needs naming! On top of that, Apistan is renowned for inefficiency if not applied in optimum conditions (do they still quote...