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i have had exactly the same....people saying they prefer it because it shows it hasnt been pasteurised/heat treated

OP reminded me of the 'is hell exothermic or endothermic' exam answer from some years ago....v funny

i can't tell what has caused that....have you scraped any of the cells away with a hive tool or something? or it has banged against something else and the wax was brittle and crumbled... either way, the rest of the frame looks ok and whilst (in my experience) they are unlikely to rebuild the...

too cold here....made some frames...and not many of those either!

we/I have missed you

is this Fin Man back

did you vape a hole in them by mistake? looks bigger than mouse damage i have seen...

i buy small honey buckets which hold 3 or 5lbs etc, Dani was helpful on this some time back

thats good....i wonder what restaurants and pubs would pay from wholesalers...do they think its a lot more expensive at £6 per pound (basically)

i am probably going to have another go this season as someone i know particularly wants some cut comb, however, i am not doing it with huge enthusiasm we get a lot of set honey in spring with OSR etc around. Presume people wait for summer flow for CC in the main if this is an issue in spring?

agree with Swarm clear the wax moth tunnels out was this a wired frame? if so its receded from the bottom and is on its way to being a 'manky' frame to refer to your other post.... usable if nothing else to hand...but on its way

weather not good enough for inspection but fine for expansion within hive can be a problem in early spring

if its in good shape it doesnt matter (imho) how dark although its a good sign of it getting on and i find the darker the comb, the harder to see eggs but various things qualify in what experience will see you label as 'manky', i find comb can start to recede from the edges and therefore the...

i never got on with the moving frames up and replacing when they get to the end over a 3 year cycle or whatever....so i do it by instinct/observation now

found first egg in queen cup

agree....i think i will be phasing out a line which i call 'D' this season....have given them a good run at it but all perform remarkably similar to each other from my observations

i find i end up with a lot of capped brood frames of stores, which i have to store for later nucs to create room for foundation or comb in the bottom box particularly with my quick inspections on sat...when i come to demaree, i will have too many frames of stores and need to make room for empties

as in, increase from those that came through winter the best?

agree and dont mind a ramble at all my inspections were similar to your description and most of mine are on double brood boxes....didn't look in bottom boxes in any as could see there was brood in LBB on stronger colonies because the arc was quite low and therefore extended below...in fact...