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    I need to do some hammering

    Even cheaper!?
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    I need to do some hammering

    Trouble is that with a TBH, try as I might, I never quite get one just like another - so the combs don’t easily transfer from one hive to another.
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    I need to do some hammering

    I will but I didn’t want to title the thread “I need to do some screwing”
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    Overwintering question

    Most seem to be saying trying ditch the super. But if you can’t, I’m pretty sure you should ditch the queen excluder.
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    I need to do some hammering

    …and drilling on a couple of occupied top bar hives at some point this winter. Just general maintenance on a couple of hives made from off cuts of soft pine wood. I’d assumed I’d be best doing it in the depth of winter when they are tightly clustered but wondering now if it’ll disturb them...
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    Careless stupidity! I introduced a virgin queen into a hive with a mated queen....what now?

    I think perfect implies you’ll end up with both queens coexisting for a while. I’ve heard it happens, not sure what in this description hints to it. Isn’t it more likely the virgin is now an ex bee?
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    At the end of a theatre performance is it antisocial to stand and applaud?

    Yes. It’s a bit odd thinking about it - why can’t clapping be BSL for clapping?
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    At the end of a theatre performance is it antisocial to stand and applaud?

    Applause can sometimes trigger people. For this reason, at my daughters primary school, one class (not hers) was told to do jazz hands rather than clap to show appreciation. 🤗 All in all I’m note sure banning standing ovations is for the better.
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    Fake news

    I heard the 'organic' bee keeper. It really was an odd peice with no news in it beyond 'the bees have been busy zooming' - literally!
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    Vegan honey (honea)!!!!!!!!

    not really; using 'vegan' as an adjective implies its a vegan version of something else. The implied comparison is obvious, dishonest and misleading. Just 'Honea' would be 'honester'.
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    Space and Aggressive Bees

    But then how do you decide which coloney it is?
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    Sentient bees?

    Ordered.
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    Sentient bees?

    I've always thought this is more likely at the hive level than the individual bee. In fact an old psychiatry prof I had once talked us through a seminar which really opened my mind. We naïvely hyper-rational medical students were keen to dismiss any 'hocus pocus' suggesting the mind came from...
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    Is there anything a hobbyist beekeeper can do about swarms?

    Here: https://www.theapiarist.org/the-nucleus-method/#:~:text=This%20method%20is%20simplicity%20itself,cell%20in%20the%20original%20colony.
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    How not to miss the swarm!

    It's odly desturbing how 'the queen' translates to uterus. 'I will now mark all my uterus'. It's rather Pappa Lazarou. But thankyou Aleksander. ;)
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    Is there anything a hobbyist beekeeper can do about swarms?

    I dont think he has started yet JBM.
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    Is there anything a hobbyist beekeeper can do about swarms?

    Though nuc boxes will do as your extras
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    This was not supposed to happen!

    Ah enrico. Crossed post. 👍
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    This was not supposed to happen!

    Though thinking again if you hived them on 17th only just enough time for a queen to develop. What did your hive them onto, was it drawn comb? Could there still be a couple of sealed QCs about?
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