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thanks very much for this detail and will use that this coming season.. At the start of a nuc's existance (from a demaree) I was going the other way round to make sure the nuc was well ... but once the nuc is up and running then it makes perfect sense !

Hi Drex ..qq for you what you do mean by "excess brood in the nucs into the production colonies"

so are you clean shaven then ? I have two follow on questions: Basically I bought one of these two years ago -> 3M 4255 Maintenance Free Half Mask FFA2P3 1. Do I need to shave the beard off (or certainly no hair around the neckline around the strap) ? 2. I have only used this mask twice...

Actually HMP Sutton (home of a wonderful Prison restaurant 'Clink') is within the 3 miles !!

we have some award winning gardener two doors down who has a monster plot with one of everything .. even sycamore :-)

give it time my dear :-)

Thanks for the information that I'll re-read again ... I have a goatee that I shave down to nothing around the chin when I do vape but interested about the positive pressure mask you mention. So I need a clean shave around the seal for these 3M 4255 Maintenance Free Half Mask FFA2P3 - masks...

summer sutton honey results - 37 taxa Taxa doesn't have to be taxing ! so 37 taxa in the sample from July and delighted to have a nice range from our suburban garden that offeres access to Banstead common. Next year I might wait and send a later sample in to get a different perspective...

Never done this before but its not really a beginners questions .... So as insurance for last years demaree I made up two nuc's and so by the end of the season they are in a nuc with double brood extension and so 12 frames and doing well going into winter (and still looking well). In the...

thanks for that .. .never really understood about the numbering system !

luckily work show it on the screens :-)

did a quick vape with the JT gas vape yesterday (additional treatment to the apivar in the autumn) went through the entrances and used a white lining glove to protect the paynes poly landing board had planned to go from top down using an eke in the summer ....but didnt really want to take the...

Thanks Ian ... so when you say longer than you think ... from -17 in the freezer to 20 degrees warm .. most defrosting for other food stuff takes at least overnight but perhaps in this case its a 24 hr job ?

so have about 4 super frames of foundation less honeycomb ready for cut comb and had planned to put it in jars for family over xmas and fill with fluid honey around it what is the best approach here ... let it defrost overnight and then cut it ? I did try straight from the freezer but that...

well said that man - guess we have to word some of this carefully on a public forum ... now on the beekeeping dark web on the other hand !!

Happy birthday Sir !

me too !

any recommendations on stainless steel double sieves...

well will definately get a food grade thermometer to confirm but happy to keep on the low side of things its not osr as its a suburban garden and so it is thick viscous honey that needed filtering - so the warming is just to get it thru a filter and to jar. I think what happens is the sieve...