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You should see if you can get yourself on a Sydney/Hobart boat one day for the great blue water classic and really put your wet weather gear through its paces. Head into Bass Straight in a "southerly buster" as the temperature can drop 15 degrees in a few minutes and wind squalls of up to 72...

Excellent Paulypaul. I've never seen that and amazing to see them take on a live grub. I was reading a couple of things yesterday in the Australasian Beekeeping mag...in articles by the US legend Clarence Collison. One was to do with honeybee viruses in ants , some interesting research on...

Just out of interest, perhaps keep an eye on the quantity of pollen coming into the one on the left (for whatever time you will leave them), to see if there is any change, dramatic or otherwise. :)

That's a shame. I weighed the block of wax today from my most recent steaming and recovered about 2.7 kg from (I think) about seven boxes (the boxes are approx. the size of a honey super).

So do you reckon it will be ok long term? I was reading the other day about someone putting a really strong magnet (eg. Neodymium) in a bee suit pocket to hold the hide tool and reckon it was good. I found a similar reference on here ..see post #3...

It sounds like you were right to take action when you did. Good work.

They toughen you up and build up strength in the legs. In the end, you just go out in a bluey and shorts and no complaining.

I tell you what has gone up in price in the boating shop. The enamel paint.

Gotta make a rugged outdoorsman out of you somehow.

Invest in one of these and get into the great outdoors in all weather. https://www.webury.com/products/driza-bone-rider-long-wax-stockman-coat

Well done Splitter! A nice early mated queen there. I really like seeing what they do with pollen when there is a queen cell in a colony but no queen and then later, when there is little if any open brood, and then what they get up to after (or even immediately before) the queen emerges and...

I've not bought from them, but this one they sell looks simple enough to fabricate for someone with metalworking skills. It looks very similar to the one you linked in post #84...

It might take ten minutes mate. It's only the time to put the eight frames in the box (15 seconds ), then take them out and bang them on the ground (15 seconds). Water in the tank (30 seconds). 10 boxes of frames, 10 minutes "work" and a great lot of wax. :)

The wire on my frames stays in place and I just run a cloth over them. Takes about three seconds per frame. I then embed the fresh foundation into the wires. No need to play about setting fire to anything.

I only bought the steamer and built and bought nothing else at all. I use a standard bee box (I have hundreds) that fits the frames (of course) and a standard solid floor (which I also have lots of). The lid is a plywood feeder board (which I have plenty of) with the usual feeder hole in it...

I'm sorry to hear that it's not worker for you :(. Another reason I like to use one size (smaller) boxes for everything as the Wagner 2000W steamer has no problem whatsoever melting out the wax from the eight frames in such a box. I had it running the other night for four hours (hydro...

I got 9kg of wax out of combs the other day after a session with the inexpensive wallpaper steamer. Not much left in the old comb. Worth it for me. The wax comes out nicely and is joined to itself as it weeps out and the old cells get promptly wrapped in newspaper.

I did about 80 the other night with the wallpaper steamer. It's one of the best things I've discovered. Lovely pools of wax run out the front. Having said that, all my frames are only 136mm, including brood frames (which are the same as my honey frames) , and I only do eight at a time in an...

I was reminded of the excellent things associated with beekeeping as we were out at first light with them. The golden sunlight first catching the tops of the trees and the early morning light through as the forest.

Perhaps something like one of these? https://petehillmansnaturephotography.wordpress.com/common-green-lacewing-chrysoperla-carnea/