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Mine runs perfectly well off a cheap variable speed electric drill.

Classic piece of over-engineering to solve a non-existent problem. You have been better off just getting a decent radial extractor!;)

You should find it is ok to use as it is. think there was a thread on this recently. Moistening it a bit may help.

Yes

Yes I'd want more than that for one of mine....

I catch the queen with a clip, wearing gloves, and put her in my pocket. I then lay an empty frame on top of the brood box, remove my gloves and run the queen out onto this frame. Having made sure my marker pen and scissors are at the ready I can then pick her up, mark and clip her with no...

Agreed. If you scale the timeline of the Earth down to a year, humans arrived at four minutes to midnight on the 31st of December.

I don't think anyone actually said that. The post that mentioned OA treatment initially was along the lines of : feed with fondant if light, check varroa drop and use oxalic if needed. How does that put you in fantasy land?

In that case I doubt it's a mouse problem

Hi Johnny, welcome. I would advise you to look around for a beginners course, which are often in winter, early spring. Get in touch with your local branch of the BBKA. You'll find the concept of a 'nice small hive' doesn't really work, and they usually ignore the forage outside the front door...

The P*ynes entrance blocks need to be turned through 90degrees, then they have a reduced entrance which is half a dozen circular holes like those in a mouseguard. Agree with MM, slow build up classic symptom of nosema.

Welcome. Very cool??? Gets quite heated!!!

Just sent them a message on their bees4bees website telling them my thoughts. Suggest others do the same.

White top on set honey is perfectly normal. I'd be more concerned at the flavour of ivy honey personally.

I don't think that will present much of a challenge for a mouse. Also wonder how stable it will be with a hive with 4 or 5 supers on in summer?

I have two hives on an allotment site inside a fairly large chicken run. No problem so far, as others chickens peck around the hives, but entrances are above chicken level.

Point of order: Whiskey is Irish, Scots produce Whisky. They would probably get as upset at the mis-spelling as some here are at the mis-use of honey.

Any honey in them may well be, think the supers will be ok if emptied and refilled, but I stand to be corrected. Personally I wouldn't use apiguard in the spring. I will be treating with oxalic next month or so, if I need any further treatment next spring/summer I will probably use MAQS.

gravid - with eggs

Just watched your video, excellent. It's not often that you catch them actually emerging, and they were very co-operative, choosing an almost text book classic branch to cluster on. You must have a very long hosepipe! The only thing I would have done differently is to put the queen excluder...