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...strongly supported! My out apiary is about 300m up a muddy unmade track along the edge of a wood, and my Hilux Invincible has struggled recently. I had "All Weather" tires fitted and have just switched to a set of BF Goodrich All Terrain T/A KO2's. The difference is astonishing! Highly...

Welcome! I would strongly endorse the previous advice re' contacting your local Beekeeping Association. The only "silly questions" are the ones you should have asked - but didn't...!

https://www.thorne.co.uk/index.php?route=product/search&filter_name=Octimel £295

Haynes Bee Manual good for starting out...

Good thinking! I’m not sure this lot is going to last a week though (Wiltshire).

Seconded about the burning bit - it can not only burn, it can actually catch fire! (Don’t ask me how I know...)

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Ignore. Should have read the OP more carefully...

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Already in the AH “sticky” above!

A must see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOnb3R2ozz4 Martyn Hocking details his experience of the Asian Hornet incursion at his Woolacombe apiaries in September 2017. He raises many questions about how beekeepers might protect their hives and their local etymological environment from this...

Ditto.

http://www.bees-online.co.uk/detail.asp?ID=799&name=Poly-Hive-Filler Works fine for me...

Started last year with two 14x12 polys - amid much sucking of teeth from my local BKA! Happy to say all their doubts have proved to be unfounded. I have just bought two more poly 14x12s, and two 14x12 poly nucs for the forthcoming season, Maisemore sale now on.

Thanks for that Millet. I am looking, in particular, to keep overall season honey yield high. A couple of factors/considerations I have identified are: - run the 2 existing colonies as honey production, then split later in the season (150 acres of OSR on the doorstep), possibility of...

I am looking to increase my hives from 2 to 4 this year and, at the same time, keep my honey production to a maximum (this will be the first year I will be taking any honey off them). Current set up is two 14x12 poly, 2017 F1 "Buckfast" - currently overwintering nicely. Spare kit is an...

I use Evostick Weatherproof wood glue which seems to work OK.

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