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    Equipment For Sale Clear Polycarbonate Crownboards

    Langstroth poly size? If so 14 with rim please.
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    Missing/wanted functionalities in a beekeeping app

    I feel like a total hypocrite and gone back to pen and paper. Never any problems with signal, no rummaging about trying to find previous records…
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    Missing/wanted functionalities in a beekeeping app

    Definitely offline access. Ability to enter fractions of frames rather than whole integers for brood and food. Ability to trace queen lineage so see which colony she descended from. Prediction on current state of queen hatching - so if you know when a larvae or capped queen cell was left, you...
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    Missing/wanted functionalities in a beekeeping app

    Ah... the copper-roofed WBC brigade? :)
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    Missing/wanted functionalities in a beekeeping app

    Hundreds? Wow, you’re being robbed. I bought a brand new tablet for £40 from Currys especially for my beekeeping records - you can’t even get half a pack of fifty frames for that. Besides, this is the beekeeping software forum not beekeeping pen and paper.
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    BeeBook app

    I bought an Android tablet to try your software and so far I like it!
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    Apiary density with 10km

    When you mark an apiary as inactive it’s removed from the count on beebase. At least the number at my nearby out apiaries went down by one when I marked home as inactive.
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    Beekeeping Law

    My neighbours were great but it was too stressful worrying that the screams from their kid were from a bee sting. As much as I miss watching the workers coming and going, the "out apiary" has been a winner for my stress levels - wonderfully peaceful hive checks where I can just relax and enjoy....
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    BeeBook app

    Looks great! Is there an iPhone version please?
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    Neighbours bonfire

    Any photos of the frames?
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    i noticed someone doing their first inspection today

    If it's *consistently* t-shirt weather, surely? And with freezing temperatures forecast towards the end of the week I won't be wearing one any time soon.
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    Help needed with hives after illness.

    I live on the West / East Sussex border so may not be far!
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    Hive Density - When are there too many?

    Isn't Arnot Forest in the US? Where honeybees are not indigenous and were introduced by European travellers in the 17th century? I'd take it with a pinch of salt before applying to UK/Europe.
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    Help needed with hives after illness.

    My folks are near Canterbury so if you’re that way I could kill two birds!
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    Importation of bees

    Apparently honey isn’t vegan at all never mind donkey bone in the sugar. The honey industry The PETA website describes artificial insemination as queens being strapped to “rape racks” -What’s wrong with eating honey? | PETA
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    Planning splits?

    I also recommend Wally Shaw’s Simple Methods of Making an Increase: https://www.wbka.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/web-Simple-Methods-of-Making-Increase-2nd-edition.pdf Last year, in a bit of a mix of the two methods, I created splits with one/two frames of brood, frame of food, shake some...
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    Importation of bees

    Naturally the local bee can cope with all this but spends half its time in the hive complaining it’s too cold / wet / dry / hot before finally getting on with some foraging after the tenth cuppa.
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    Talk to me about tunnel entrances

    I made a robbing screen out of some leftover pieces of wood and spare varroa floor. Held over the entrance with a bungee cord and saved the nuc from being invaded by wasps.
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    Bee Equipment quality?

    I’ve never had a problem with the quality of kit from bee-equipment. I did have a long wait while they were unhappy with the quality of wood they had and sourced alternatives.
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