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I'v found 'The Biology of the Honey Bee' Mark L. Winston pretty useful. From this book you can deduce a lot of other stuff and get a hint as to what other info sources are maybe not quite right.

Sorry I meant Aldi ,I don't think we even have a Lidl(Penrith)

Penrith Lidl also 39p per Kilo

So can I conclude that if I remove the draft excluder from under the varroa mesh Bernoulli's principle will not apply?

Very thought provoking paper. If this is normal queen rearing procedure I don't see how the 'non royal' lineages would exist, since they would rarely get the chance to breed. However I can see evolutionary logic for it as an emergency response. If the queen is lost then the colony is judged to...

Meadow-sweet bee on meadowsweet today(3.7.14) here in Cumbria

meadow-sweet bee on meadowsweet today(3.7.14) here in Cumbria

Hi Winston in 'The Biology of the Honey bee' states that 'worker age is the major factor determining which workers will remain in the nest and which will issue with both prime and ..casts ..' he gives references of (butler,1940; meyer,1956 and winston & otis, 1978) Thomas Seeley might have...

Hi Taylan, Yes I think its probably unlikely to to be the same person. Your mention of Kirkby in Cleveland is also a bit of nostalgia trip for me. I liked the look of the 'log hives' and was interested in the landing boards stretching to the ground, I was wondering if anyone observing real...

Could it be Jack Taylor of Jack Taylor Cycles? Thought it looks a bit like him. I dont know if he lived at Guisborough but his business was at Stockton, not far away. Here is a video of him ".youtube.com/watch?v=ALNsQpCL8LY"The Bike Brothers - Jack, Ken and Norman Taylor. - YouTube. You'll need...

Hi Everybody, I'm nuub here I'v had some bees for a month now so i don't have any sensible answers to beekeeping questions, but on this occasion something springs to mind! Is your house less than 100 yards from your bees? Have the bees found a food source within 100 yards of their hive...