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Good post, Finman.

Same here. Gorse pollen, I think ?

Have to disagree. There is no possible guarantee of anonymity while census forms have what appears to be a unique reference number. There may be a promise of confidentiality, but that's a different thing and people are very wise to be wary of such promises. We've seen how health services...

Good to know, thanks.

Here's the link to info attributed to Wally Shaw, which I've taken from the Dave Cushman website. http://www.dave-cushman.net/bee/wallyshaw.html The link includes formula and application. And Health and Safety of course. Interesting in relation to the ongoing discussion here, are his thoughts...

Enjoyed that, excellent. Thank you.

Sublimation being the chemistry term for a direct change from solid to gas, without passing through the liquid stage. Which is what is happening to the crystals when you heat them up. .

Well if I said it, or if someone else from these islands said it it would be predictable. Thus not funny. But to me, a man from Finland throwing that one out, is hilarious. A bit of a left-field cultural reference. I laughed out loud, to be honest. We all know the sheep thing is not true in...

Hope I'm not insulting your intelligence Michael, but perhaps there's a cultural dissonance going on here. Jokes about Welshmen and sheep are as old as the hills, this side of the pond. Exactly like Paddy being stupid, and Jock being mean. Taffy is also a thief, by the way :-) I'd be...

Reminds me of the story about Alan Clark, when Thatcher was horrified to discover his vegetarianism... Mrs Thatcher: "You eat meat don't you?" Alan Clark: "No, I do not, prime minister." Mrs Thatcher: "Well, you wear leather shoes, don't you?" Alan Clark: "I am sure, prime minister, you...

Might the vapour corrode the mesh in time ?

Hi. Somewhere recently I've read that it is better to pile the winter syrup into them, so that they store it immediately. Feeding in dribs and drabs makes them think there's a flow on and the queen keeps laying. What do people think ?

Hi, yes I'll give you the references in the article - Streit, S., Bock, F., Pirk, Chr. & J. Tautz: "Automatic life-long monitoring of individual insect behaviour now possible." - Zoology 169, 169-171, 2003. F. Bock: "Untersuchungen zu naturlicher und manipulierter Aufzucht von Apis mellifera...

Jurgen Tautz disagrees. 'The temperatures during pupal (my emphasis) development of worker bees greatly influences whether they will develop into a summer or winter bee... The bees 'bake' different characteristics into their offspring.' He quotes research by Fiola Bock where summer and winter...