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    Bucket Warming Blanket

    These might work: Electric Foot Warmer Longest timer is 120mins but quarter of the price
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    Sore finger tips

    surely it's time to change your username to Curly red fingers? :ROFLMAO:
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    Progress report: The Easy See plastic window in my veil.

    any issues with it steaming up?
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    Double crown board boards

    Is wool not used ? can't imagine it is that expensive, I know there were stories about farmers dumping it a few years ago as price they were getting for it was so low. Would probably need an initial treatment/disinfectant.
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    Orchard planting

    Would recommend worcester pearmain, lovely eating apple. Do you have deer nearby? These seem to love munching on the buds on young apple trees and then rutting against them later in the year. They seem to ignore willow, oak, chestnut etc.
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    fungus that kills Varroa mites

    my point was just that it may be a slightly more feasible route to investigate than rubharb leaves, sea salt or lavender
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    fungus that kills Varroa mites

    if Dipel works for wax moth it's not beyond the bounds of possibility
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    Time to get the camera out againAnd spread some joy

    from a few months ago..
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    Problems with drawn comb

    It's Texas, I assume there is a longer season there (Google says it's still 27c) so may not be to late to save this season. No idea what's flowering over there at this time of year though
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    Plastic heather honey loosener

    How do you end up with fresh comb? Do you spin full frames or scrapings from frames? on the plastic loosener i can’t see it working, i tired spinning some uncapped heather honey and it didn’t budge so unlikely it would extract through those small holes it makes
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    Extracting Workshop.....OUTSIDE

    Their equipment and hives all look brand new on the website, is it their first time extracting? Could get interesting very quick “Children are coming free, two children accompanied by 1 adult, adult tickets must be booked.” will be a few traumatised kids after this
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    Heather honey 2022?

    You can save the foundation by just scraping off the cells back to the foundation, it's a bit of a messy job and may be a lot of faff if you have a lot of supers but I suppose you'd need to weigh up the effort vs adding foundation back to the frames. Frames will also be a little bit drawn (vs...
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    Supercedure Number 1 desirable trait

    Are you able to breed bees that can dodge swallows?
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    Supercedure Number 1 desirable trait

    All well and good until she can't mate due to poor weather or gets picked off by a swallow, do you attest that to bad genes and requeen that colony with a queen from a luckier hive?
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    questionable teaching or not?

    "the very experienced bee keeper I got them from" This is always a red flag for me, when you are new to beekeeping, anyone who has a few hives will seem like a very experienced beekeeper, it doesn't mean they are the fountain of knowledge. He may be good and you can probably learn a lot from...
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    single swarm cell from best colony

    yes I had a few workers get into some of the cages too. I found the seem to knock down the cells around the cage which made them a bit less secure. I put the cages on as soon as the queen cells were capped and then worried if that was too early (temprature) but the cages that had viable queens...
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    single swarm cell from best colony

    Hi Wilco, I tried this, it worked very well. The one issue I had was some of the cages fell off (possibly from wright of bees on them) so had to reattach them after a few days. How do you attached yours? Simply press in or do you leave longer tabs/teeth on the cages to press in?
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    Teenage science (don’t come at me with pitch forks)

    I suppose this is how a lot of discoveries start(maybe moreso in the past than nowadays) just needs to convince someone to test it scientifically and if it works, identify the specific compound that is working, extract or recreate it,then license and sell for big bucks
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    Probably queenless, but I have a "spare" swarm - advice wanted.

    the year before last we had a wet July and I had a queen mate/start laying after about 6 weeks, was just about to combine too
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    You'll need a robust constitution for this

    My japanese is a bit rusty, what is it? A tapeworm or something like that?
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