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Madness! 😱🙄

One of my retailers had some honey (not mine) that had some frosting, they were concerned it was going mouldy! So yes, frosting can decrease saleability.

You're aiming for a treatment when they are broodless so that the mites can't hide in sealed cells. So a treatment whenever you think that will be is what you want, though multiple at likely points over winter won't do any harm. Personally I find it hard to judge when they are broodless.

It can't be........ because mine is! 😁

Looking at what they are made of they don't sound like much insulation.

Yes, I've seen a couple of paraquat poisoning deaths, a horrible way to go, giving oxygen just makes it worse.

And that's as someone who could possibly still get involved!

I wish you and your country all the best against the Russian aggressors. The more support we can persuade our politicians to give the better. I'm starting to feel NATO should put boots on the ground.

One insulation material i have used recently (for insulating around and above a rapid feeder in a spare super) is loft insulation - but  not the glassfibre/rockwool stuff, but the stuff made from recycled plastic bottles. I'm not sure I'd use it much in a loft as I suspect it's flammable.

Are the darker bees now flying just robbing out the weak colony?

The forum is often like that, straying far from the original topic. It's both a frustration and a fascination.

If you have a  very strong colony you could take bees from you could spray with air freshener and shake some in, but not a great idea in the cold (and shaking the Q in would be a disaster). I doubt it's worth trying.

Just musing for next year. Has anyone used these 3 frame nucs on top of another colony (for warmth) either as standard nucs, or as mating nucs? https://cornishhoney.co.uk/product_info.php?cPath=89&sort=1a&products_id=379&ceid=mu3p52m3b3ugqkdek5pe4o1o1m

Whereabouts are you? I may well have a spare nuc in the spring.

We're they able to supply one? I remember as an early teenager on holiday in France with my parents my father trying to ask for washing up liquid in the local shop. They looked puzzled and then rooted under the counter until I corrected his French when they laughed at gave us some. It turned...

Not a bad idea if a tunnel takes the bees to the outside, and the lifts are then lined with eg 10cm of kingspan.

It sounds like they are just decorative "lifts" like a WBC, probably over a standard hive eg national.

Are you tempted to try what someone on here reported and pull pollen pellets out of the comb and eat one each day for a few weeks?

Not actually beeswax so I'd avoid it like the plague & I guess wax exchange companies would be v unhappy! https://www.betterbee.com/foundation/bcombd10-bettercomb-drawn-comb.asp#:~:text=BetterComb%20is%20a%20completely%20drawn,drawn%20out%20by%20the%20bees.