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Once you have exhausted all other avenues within the university - and made sure there is a record of your call/complaint at each step - then the only thing left is to involve the police. At that point the university may also start taking the matter more seriously. Foreign students are worth more...

"only work for about 8-10 hours a day" - That all?

Thanks very much. Yes, much of what is in the upper BB remains from the winter. It was the heaviest hive to heft last Autumn and didn't lose much weight - they are efficient consumers. There are now two supers and I suspect I will be taking frames from the one almost full and replacing them...

Advice please. Inspected my #2 hive this afternoon, which consists of two National BBs plus one shallow box. This was my biggest colony last year and it has been active throughout the winter. The volume of traffic going in and out indicated that this was going to be a big colony again, but the...

Surely this isn't meant for bees; apart from being the wrong size no self-respecting bee would be seen dead wearing a fancy dress outfit like that.

Sold . ....

You've probably already got all the answers you want. This looks like a standard rapid feeder and shouldn't give any bother at all - no need for the cork. I use this pattern on all my hives. If they want the syrup they'll take it, but if they're not interested or unimpressed then they won't ...

Unused Eat Natural hive available for anyone who wants it [must be collected]. Brood box, 2 supers, floor unit, crown board, Queen excluder, correx observation board, steel roof and stand. Walls are insulated and there is additional loft insulation for winter. Treated externally with teak...

Located in Yorkshire on the edge of the Pennines. There were 6 frames of capped brood left behind and bees busy on 10 of the brood frames; it was a reasonably strong colony for numbers before she swarmed.

A queen absconded [with half the bees] v. late in August. There are now 2 Q-cells in the hive, but at this time of the year what chance does a new queen have of mating and establishing herself? Would it be better to unite with another colony?

Thanks very much. I know queens stop laying during bad periods, such as winter, and had heard of them reducing their laying when supplies were poor, but stopping in the summer .... I'm hoping your right as it would be a blow to lose two at once like this. The positive signs are that there were...

Inspected two hives this weekend and found similar conditions in each. Bees were calm, capped brood present, but did not identify any young larvae or eggs, no queen sighted but no queen cells present.Maybe I need to visit Specsavers - I know I'm not so hot at spotting eggs but larvae are not...

I'm into into my third season with my own bees and have had mixed results - some spectacular successes but quite a few disappoints/cock-ups/failures too. I've joined 3 BKAs but I seem to be too far away from anyone for mentoring so I have to go it alone. I'm hoping this forum will make up for a...