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I think you frightened him off...!

The Search Facility (top left) is very good; you can guarantee someone has had a similar problem/question sometime in the past - Welcome and enjoy!

This is disappointing. Forum Tradition dictates that there must be at least three answers to this question - of which two are required to be completely contradictory, and the third supported by an obscure, largely discredited, scientific paper written in a language other than English...

Welcome ColinW!

Same here.

As has been said earlier, putting a little Thymol in the syrup stops it going mouldy - and Oxalic Acid is excellent for giving old wooden hive bodies a bit of a tart up...

Thumbs up from me - Beekeeping in a gentler age...

For me: anti histamines and hydrocortisone cream

Welcome back - there have probably been a few changes in the last 25yrs...! I wonder what you notice most?

Yes - I had forgotten about Brexit for a moment there...

I will be inspecting a weak, possible Q- hive later today. If I decide to combine it with a strong Q+ hive (after testing with a frame of eggs/larvae), what is the best way to revert to two Q+ hives further downstream? I don’t have another suitable site over 3 Km away, nor do I have a spare Q...

I'll just leave this here: https://theflatearthsociety.org/home/

One of my queens has yet to get going, the other is laying like a train - interestingly this is the hive that wolfed down their pollen substitute ( the other lot wouldn’t touch the stuff).

Both my queens went off lay during last year’s Apiguard treatment, OA vaping seems to have no adverse effects.

Agreed. I'll just leave this here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.3896/IBRA.1.51.4.14

A rough idea of your budget, location, type and scale of enterprise and level of experience would enable the forum to advise you better.

:yeahthat:

Actually you can - but you wouldn’t believe the hangover.....

My 7yr old Hilux gives 31mpg - never seems to vary (3L TD).

Ditto (almost) - I use 14x12 Polys and 3.2g under the OMF.