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Was talking to them on the phone on Thursday and they'd no plans to order more yet, only sell the limited amount of stock left

It's not plywood, strips of knot free pine glued together into 8x4 sheets. It can be gotten with waterproof glue

Not 100% sure, must check with the local supplier

None of that is relevant to me. Please can we go back on topic

Have the spare time in winter so that's not an issue

Anyone build their hives out of pineboard/lamwood? Any thoughts, seems to be more popular in Eastern Europe but not mentioned on here

http://www.mediterraneamellis.com/contacto/ There are others too. Minimum order of 1t for irradiated pollen.

You can buy irradiated pollen from Spain also by the tonne. Probably more cost effective after shipping

Have the older lyson one with the impeller pump. The newer model has a gear pump and I presume drips less. I have the bigger turntable and wouldn't want it to be any smaller

It would be a lot easier to just replace those wild genes with buckfast or carnica...

I think unless you do something similar to the carnica population there will never be progress. Really what's being created then is an Amm subspecies to replace or eradicate the wild/unselected genes

Beekeeping with pure amm and little to no influence from imports doesn't result in the utopia that you suggest it would

Some of the most vocal against imports into Ireland were also the biggest exporters for a time (no idea if that's still the case). It was never possible to get health certificates issued for bees in Ireland.

Black bees?

1kg of package bees with queen is probably costing €55 each collected from northern Italy. Add in transport, 5 frames and a gallon of Syrup and maybe a 90% queen acceptance rate

If UK genetics were so good, they'd be exported and their daughters imported. There wouldn't be any problems getting someone to do the rearing as long as there's reasonable scale. Also because they'd perform so much better than the vastly inferior cheap yellow bees, they'd sell at a premium and...

For every 1lb increase in yield across 4,000 hives is circa £15,000 extra. It would probably make sense to have the best bee strain possible. If you were going to take over 500 queens you could get any strain you wanted reared in Europe

Buckfast can be gotten for the same price and will do better

Would it handle the viscosity? Positive displacement pumps; gear, rubber impeller, vane and progressive cavity pumps are the only ones I've heard of being used

Slovenian carnies can be very swarmy, buckfast is safer