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Just seen an interesting clip purporting 95% reduction in varroa using oregano oil vaporised slowly within the hive. Any thoughts?

So what do we think about BT scrapping analogue lines? Personally I think it's a disaster waiting to happen. Any loss of power with digital and there's no means of calling an ambulance! Talk about setting up the UK for a fall at a time of energy insecurity!

Delivered with such aplomb!

https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DFLHN2m5hBxQ&ved=2ahUKEwi4nuHEq5iAAxW6gv0HHVe_AZIQtwJ6BAgREAI&usg=AOvVaw32IoddWtENA8l_Z3pr5HR9

I'm all for recycling but when I went to buy a bottle of water the other day at a service station the bottle was dirty grey. I was under the impression that food contact materials had to be virgin. Not any more apparently. Very scary...

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2142884-bees-are-first-insects-shown-to-understand-the-concept-of-zero/ Not just pretty little faces!

Talking of beeswax got me thinking. Does anyone have experience of adding thymol to melted beeswax when making foundation? Is this something that has already been tried? Thymol is soluble in melted beeswax so it got me thinking it might treat/inhibit/deter varroa in the nymph stage especially...

Fascinating: https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5295738/&ved=2ahUKEwiX7JWcoNf9AhWIUsAKHaR2ALI4ChAWegQIExAB&usg=AOvVaw351nCmGEFnLWFvBIoqIOR9 The link is to an article titled: Novel Insights into the Health Importance of Natural...

250ml honey 250ml of tepid water 1/2 nutmeg 1 cinnamon stick 2 allspice berries 1/2 tsp ground ginger 1 vanilla pod orange peel, of half an orange, dried out 70ml of vodka circa 40% unsalted butter, (optional) Mix the honey and tepid water in a good quality steel saucepan, and add the spices...

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Ants have swarmed our way which is usually a heads up that wasps will enter the sweet feeding phase of their lifecycle if they haven't done so already. Good time to check on anti-wasp measures in particular the state and type of entrances to the hive.

https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/ If you haven't already come across this, this is a bit of fun.

I don't know if this has already been posted on the forum but the video clips (scroll to the bottom) into the hidden world of the hive are fascinating: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0247323

Just a heads up that it may be prudent to buy in supplies of sugar early so as to avoid disappointment come winter. Solar activity is still depressed and all the signs are that we will have a colder longer winter.

For those of you who dabble in hive diy, it might be an idea to stock up on timber. Considerable shortages expected as construction industry ramps up post lockdowns at the same time that supplies from Europe hampered and demand as a construction material increased due to green carbon capture...

Looking for a little advice. A dear friend passed away and his widow would like a commemorative rose to remember him by. Her preference is for a thornless rose with a good scent and any colour but white. Not being a gardener I would really appreciate any suggestions for a variety of rose that...

One has to feel sorry for the bees and beeks on St Vincent and Barbados.

Does anyone have any experience of sterilizing honey?

I thought this was an interesting read: https://tinyurl.com/y5feoua2 Open paper from Bristol on bee foraging egress rates. Sorry can't get the link to work other than by tinyurl

As an antidote to cabin fever I hope you forgive my indulgence in sharing this: Many years ago as a pre-registration pharmacist in Liverpool together with 20 or so of my graduate colleagues I attended a series of seminars at Fazakerley Hospital. The last seminar before lunch was to be on spinal...