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BN, could you please illustrate somehow how your frames use strips? <I use starter strip in brood boxes,..> We use strips sometimes for supers, [is that what you mean by lifts?] anda single frame in bait boxes with the strip, c. 45 mm wide, attached to the upper part of the frame.

That echoes my thinking. Thanks.

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I'm told to service my ecodan [two ashp fans outside, ufh, well insulated house with hrc ssystem] EVERY YEAR -- is this truly necessary, do you think? jaylo

Got my months mixed up, sorry!

I intend to OA vape later in December and January. Me too, GaryH -- per the Apiarist.

or did I say that already?

and over the fondant bag if there is space

Ivy flowering well here on the Black Isle

I used to clean my teak boat deck with dilute oxalic acid

Our bees say "yum yum"

We are quite taken by candipolline [from Becky's Bees] though it's pricey -- two hives have been rescued from what must have been severe hunger problems in the past two years [June] even when we were feeding syrup. to combat the undoubted June gap here [even with all the lovely gardens in...

Dani, how does that rhombus board work with the wee round hole in the centre?

Thanks James, much as we thought! [doh!]

I'm afraid I don't really understand the term "supers stored wet" Would you clarify, please?

Welcome, AK, as semi-newbees, we've found this forum most useful!

Goran, could you sell MEAD?

We had a swarm enter a wee crack in our west Scotland farmhouse gable so within the hour I taped + tied a cardboard box/"skep" onto the wall and spent an hour puffing smoke into a nearby crack/orifice -- out they came, it was my swarm so I hived it again. Many years ago so no varroa then.

That's all good advice and as with all your posts thankfully not at all patronising, thanks James !

...... we found this feller quite useful and he makes easily followed videos