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Obviously, like Japanese motor cycle engines, the secret is in the gearbox! HP and jet engines? The thought doesn't bear thinking about.

A good point Rosti. The same effective dose for all boxes, even double brood, but a lesser dose for nucs and mating nucs I believe. It's a bit like making cakes, the time in the oven turns out to be not quite as critical as first thought, with anything up to plus/minus 20 minutes being a quite...

A cover over the weir should keep the bees from the feeding chute from ente ring the body of the feeder. Some allow the bees access once the level is all but gone. This is why the weir should be at the lowest end, so that the bees cannot enter the body while there is still a volume of syrup...

I find that sugar syrup inverted with the addition of citric acid is not only sweeter, but has a brighter finish to it. The advantage of invert sugar is that it is more readily taken down by the bees in cooler temperatures and so can be fed successfully a little later in the year than straight...

I make my syrup in the bath, well the buckets in the bath and use hot water from the tap. It's supposed to stop spills on the carpet, but topping up an unstable 2 litre bottle with a funnel in the top and trying to stop it toppling whilst also holding the almost full bucket of syrup is good for...

Hombre says that I should wind my neck in . . . ha ha; and thinks that it was a bit of a B class question in search of an A class answer. Back to the rioja then. Hombre not worthy

It can double up as the centre of the nativity display at Christmas.

Given the refractometer scale is marked every 0.5 Brix I took my reference point for olive oil as being 71.5 Brix or or 26.5% water. Virgin olive oil. I suppose that there will be some small deviation, but like electronics, 5% components are more than adequate for the job in almost all cases...

I have Ashforth 'type' feeders with a Correx weir cover that has a shallow cuttout so that the bees can get out into the larger volume when the syrup is all but finished. Ensure that the weir is at the lowest end. I had a small group of dead bees in one the other day. They were at the other end...

My sincere congratulations Ben and from Hombre too. Don't let Happiness's father catch you on cloud 9 with his daughter though . . . I agree with PeterS, your beekeeping knowledge and activities will be a differentiator that will allow you to stand out from your peers when it comes to...

Does a light doze of bee fever in early spring make you a better bee keeper later in the season? Or is it likely to get you into more strife with the wife?

Gas going up 18%, electricity going up 11%, sugar up 18%(?), fuel up ?% and generally food up ?% A fair return on the effort involved. It may be a hobby, supplementing a pension, or a main source of living income. Unless you are actually a charity then it beholds you to at least begin to cover...

I'm probably not quite as accurate as RAB, but for argument's sake 1:1. I do believe that the answer to to your last question is "YES", but doesn't require an extension to the thread. If the question wasn't rhetorical, then Google will certainly tell you more than you need to know.

Unfortunately not. Neither do I recommend feeding the lions through the bars at the zoo. (that would be any zoo by the way)! This question is another annual event. Reading of the last couple of events in the UK, the infants in question were actually under six months old. We don't have warnings...

Alternatively use 18mm x 95mm and after cutting to approx (longer) length, you will find a convenient width hiding in your bandsaw just waiting to be ripped down to size.

Making a bit of a meal of it I think. Fixing the operating point with reference to Olive Oil will make things OK. We are only aligning the scale against a known reference, not recalibrating the whole scale. No wonder people get confused when a simple issue gets talked to death. I'm looking...

Actually sounds liked quite a result. Especially if you managed to pop one of the other two into a nuc too.

The shed - Skandinavian furniture optional Somewhere to make sawdust and the occasional bit of kit for the bees.

Nice video Rooftops, shame about the plans being wrecked. I take it that plan Bee was the fallback position. It is possible to separate the video and sound should you feel the need to go that route and then merge a sound track as long as you have your timing right. It all seems so simple when...

Un marido? Hombre mi amigo dice: "Hola, disfrutar de sus vacaciones". 'Traductor Google' ha mejorado maravillosamente. Mark sentimos - no pudo resistir. No point in wasting a new IP address viewers. WMSB/Hombre