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Sounds like a very interesting study - do you have a link to it?

spot on!

I've also had that issue in the past; feed an apiary and a couple of the colonies react as though it's poison, while the rest just guzzle away. I've simply pulled the syrup from those colonies that react and fed fondant instead. Irritating, because who wants to be feeding fondant in September...

How's about using natural sponge? (just thinking outloud - I've not tried any of these hacks yet.)

Now that's a really good idea! Thank you.

councillors... MORE common sense? Not in my experience!

Someone must have complained. What is the wider setting beyond the paddock? As Darryl states, planning enforcement would only take action if it's in the public interest - that is, they'd only go to court to enforce if it were in the public interest. Is there anything in the local plan regarding...

where do you source your queens?

Actually, it's very encouraging to note that this issue has been raised intermittently since 2016. I'll go ahead and print their info. Thanks all, and sorry for resurrecting an old thread.

Ditto - though Peterbees response above has lifted my concerns somewhat.

Now you mention it, I do remember the Blue Peter campaign. I didn't know about the outcome though. How terribly sad.

I also received some blurb asking for publicity and fund raising to be published in our association magazine and have had the same niggling concerns. Thank you for your information. Is there perhaps a little article to be had from your experiences that we could print in the magazine (Devon BKA...)?

Thorne's do a 'beekeeping on a budget' range - very reasonable. Last year I bought an entire hive - national - brood, two supers, floor, queen excluder, crown board and roof, plus all the frames - all flat packed - for around £185. The precision wasn't quite as good as the National Bee Supplies...

...but less useful towards the end of the season. And 'International Bee Supplies' is in Okehampton, 20 minutes down the road - I feel that the build quality of their hives is better; better fits between the parts. But Thornes in South Molton (50 minutes away) seems to be better stocked...

I have a friend just down the road (in Exeter) who keeps two hives successfully in his garden. He has good neighbours, so if/when they swarm he's able to retrieve them easily. I keep mine at a couple of sites out in the countryside and have to say, I would be uncomfortable keeping them in town...

A friend of mine was charging £4/lb wholesale, in buckets, five years ago.

"Inverted Pretension"... :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:

I would suggest that actual scientific research to-date has just explored the tip of the iceburg of all the areas of bee lore we're aware - and unaware - of. And actually, I would venture to suggest that many of us who've spent a lifetime out in the environment have a lot of pretty valid...

Also, many of the pallets I've come across through work (landscape and nursery) previously have been imported and made of 'bog wood' - no idea what that actually is, but a splinter will go septic really fast...

Interesting; I wonder if the variety is different? S. humilis? S. confusa? (the most common ones)