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Yes please! :D .

I have an image of you making it with glue and scissors- please don't tell me if I'm wrong! .

Which is sugar, made by plants by photosynthesis. A little bit of this can be exuded as nectar. Most of it will be taken into the body of the plant which is where we get our sugar from- the stems of sugar cane or the roots of sugar beet. All completely natural. I feed mine sugar syrup with...

No, but you can change your hive set-up, eg ventilation. And it doesn't take long to treat a hive, but anything that slows the build-up between treatments, as long as it doesn't have other adverse effects, must be a good thing. .

Are you able to add sensors lower down? Probes beween 2 brood frames would give a more accurate representation of what the larvae and mites are experiencing. .

I'm not sure where you're coming from with this. I've just read your thread from this morning, and it looks as though you raised a question which was fairly fully discussed from various angles. What's the problem? .

Which is why I do it. I'm not trusting to any single solution, it's all about IPM. .

There is also a theory that mites deemed to have bite marks, are actually just showing signs of dehydration after death- crumpling, basically. .

Chances are the dark green one is E. pungens, and the silvery one E. x ebbingei

:iagree: In fact will get to 5m no problem.

If that is the case, then they may be like vines, which should be pruned right at the start of winter, as sap pressure can start building well before any growth shows.

Thanks for the heads up- I watched one fly past my hives this week, but didn't think there would be a problem for weeks yet. .

Thanks guys. They all had bees in, and it was definitely planned. The apiary is not remote, but you are unlikely to come across it by accident. It would be great if we did catch them, but I'm not holding my breath. .

I've just heard that last night, 4 hives were stolen from our association apiary near Bournemouth. They were fairly new cedar 14 x 12's made by David Pearce, and therefore have OMF floors with shallow entrances, and double-sided crownboards with an oversize space on one side. If anyone hears a...

Speaking as the world's worst queen spotter and least observant man (I once walked past my own wife in the supermarket when I was looking for her) I can see 2 there that could be her- one head down with a dark tail to the SE, and a lighter one with her tail to the North. Can we have another...

I've overwintered weak colonies successfully in insulated hives, with surplus frames removed and the space filled with kingspan. Insulated dummy board on their own don't do a lot, as convection currents can go around them. .

I would consider isolation starvation as dying of cold- if the bees weren't so cold they can't move around the hive, they would move to the food. .

To answer your question as directly as possible- you do not need to do this, but some would consider it beneficial. I would suggest that the greatest benefit is likely to be found by the weakest colonies- for example I am doing this for nucs. By putting kingspan over the crownboard I would say...