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Got badgers about 30 feet away. Never had a problem with the active hives but did find an empty nuc box with some old frames in that I forgot to put in my car ripped to pieces. Just have strong, well weighed down hives.

No sounds like a horizontal Snelgrove 2 rather than doing vertically. In relation to the original OP how do you intend on dumping the original flyers if the hive stays on the original location? Why don't you just do the Snelgrove 2 - it works. Why tinker?

Compared to a field of wheat, golf course is paradise. Whole point of golf is you have areas of rough to test out if you can avoid it. Most that I play on have hedges, scrubby bits and woods.

Little John - have you tried horizontal in the past? I've only ever done horizontal wire which is fine but a bit fiddly. Keen to try wooden but unsure whether vertical or horizontal - that's the problem with the forum so many different approaches I get confused as to what's best!

What was the inspectors reasoning for why varoaa will be higher this season?

Isn't it still February?!

I would advise that you start to think more like a bee so read up on their behaviour and you will see why keeping to one hive at all times will be tricky to do. Removing the queen excluder was the right thing to do at the end of the season. In the winter if bees migrate up through the excluder...

Whether it's a few overwinterers or a DLQ nothing can be done until it warms up. What will be will be.

I know it varies to where you live but for me this has been one of the coldest winters for some time. Sustained weeks of frosts every night and so forth. Would be surprised to find brood in mine - and won't be looking for it.

Mine rely on ivy because after I take my supers off at the end of the main flow usually end July or early August there is nothing else about much to forage until it comes in September; and I don't autumn feed so if it's not ivy theyre overwintering on I don't know what else.

With the continued low cereal prices you will probably find more stubbles left as farriw (also a good way to combat the dreaded blackgrass). Encouraging uncultivated bits of fields probably your best bet where the likes of clover will come through. OSR still the best for yielding.

I really put the wheels in motion when suggesting they make good hive stands

They make good hive stands though - or potato planters

I had some dark amber, very thick to spin out honey that was coming in at the same time as the OSR which I assumed to be hawthorn because never had it before. Hard to spin out of the frames. This was the only year I have had it since starting beeking in 2012. If its not hawthorn only other...

Roads round me are getting busier and busier and most farmers scrape up mud on road because they know with all the rat runs cars will go in ditches and claims will be put in. At the end of the day that's your top soil getting lost so it does not make sense to go in (plus compaction issues) when...

You get good and bad of both folk. Can't assume all incomers will fall in to the moaning category.

I feel a right numpty having never seen these before given the amount of gardening I do. Explains the number of snails I have in my garden (theyre worse than slugs).

Same applies to that dastardly OSR stuff! Good job Brian we have clever bees who know how to use this wonderful stuff!

Gosh I think you're right. Can't believe I've never seen them before. Thanks for the replies

Transplanted some strawberry runners in to an ołd grow bag last week and was surprised to see what looked like a very small pile of spawn (frog? Toad?) all white but connected together. Anybody ever see this at this time of year and why? And not in water. What else could it have come from...