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14X12 or standard national are both available again. All have been treated with MAQS this year (or at least the parent colonies were in the case of artificial swarms). £150 each. You bring a hive, we'll swap our frames in, you take away in the evening. Inspection welcome, we are quite happy if...

I have an old thread here: http://www.beekeepingforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=7989 However the forum appears to have eaten the pictures.

You can make a lot of supers out of a sheet of 18 mm ply that costs about £30. Boxes are very easy to make - I get a few sheets of ply in and run up a whole load in one go. Takes about an afternoon to make a stack of supers and broods. Roofs and floors are more fiddly, I buy those in. The...

We have a number of colonies for sale, ranging from nuc size to full size 14x12 with 8 frames of brood. Temperament is average, they are local mongrels, but well enough behaved. Sounds obvious, but all have a laying queen with her own brood. 14X12 or standard national are both available...

All 12 of ours up and running today. Some were doing a passable impression of summer - hordes of bees flying. Not much pollen in evidence, but the crocuses are taking a battering. As to inspection - not at all at this stage. All we are doing is lifting the roof to check fondant. The crown...

I think the claim "produced exclusively in Regents's Park" is very dubious. Last time I was there, I didn't see bee proof netting round the park. At least they are not claiming it is organic.... The price? Typical London, but for that money I'd expect a better quality label and some rustic...

So what? You can turn a drill for free, but loads of people choose to pay DeWalt for a cordless drill to do it for them. If you have an application that needs Brand X operating system, then use it. If you get paid for what you do with that application, then the cost of the Operating system...

It's just an operating system. Most normal people don't "use" operating systems, they use applications. With cheap virtualisation it doesn't really matter anyway. You can run Linux in Windows or Windows in Linux.

It all comes down to why you want to do it. If you want the sheer satisfaction of making a hive, then you can do it with your teeth if you have the time. You could easily knock up a hive with a tenon saw, a rip saw and a rabbet plane. If you take your time, it would be perfectly accurate...

It'll be fine. Yes, heavier, and it is a crap grade it will warp, but it will work.

I wouldn't get a biscuit jointer just for this. A plain joint will be fine (as long as the glue is good), or if you have a router, one of those bits that corrugate the surfaces of the joint would a cheap way of improving it.

Depends what is in it. Assume is it GPS + SIM slot + battery so it can report in. The SIM costs are the biggest problem. If someone can get the cost of these down to £100, then they will sell thousands. It would be worth sticking one on everything stealable. Given that Huawei can make...

I think this very much depends on what the weather does. If you've been queenless since Sept 15th, then the bees you have are pretty old, and if the weather takes a turn for the worse, then you'll have no winter bees, re-queen or not. I would take the view that what is done is done. They may...

I would think a lot more depends on the weather. Last year we got some new queens in very late, and did some splits. I recall that in August they were similar size. All three made it through the winter in heavily insulated 14x12s. If we have a cold September and October, then combining them...

Land Rover? Proper Land Rover rather than some Range Rover thing? Just leave it. Adds character. Leave it in a field with some cows for a week and she'll never notice the propolis. Cow dents add character too. Seriously - depends on the paint. Cellulose (very old) - generally soft...

Not if I can avoid it. I'd rather the bees gathered and consumed their own honey. Our general approach: - Honey crop off before the end of August. Varroa treatment on. - Bees have September to reduce in size and fill brood boxes. - If any are light (e.g. awful September) then they get...

My take on in (South of England bias, so possibly warmer than you). - A standard National Brood is likely to be too small to make it through the winter without feeding. - A 14x12 has enough stores to make it through winter without feeding (depending on the winter, the initial weight, yadda...

Seems to be at odds with our experience. Yes, flying opportunities have been curtailed, but when they are flying, the flows are stupendous. We got our biggest OSR crop ever (OK biggest in 4 years), and inspecting yesterday, the hives are groaning with honey. We are still adding supers as...

Depends how close. We have caught none of the swarms from our apiary in the bait hives, which are about 200 yards from the existing hives. All of our swarms hang up on trees (if we are on the ball, we catch them), then vanish over the far horizon. We catch other peoples swarms in our...

OMF is more than enough ventilation. Probably makes no difference in the summer, would be a big problem in the winter. We leave a bit of ply over all our and the bees glue it down. Having bees in the roof space just gives you another opportunity to crush them.