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Looks interesting. I guess you spoon the powder into a canister and press an "on" button? The small pipe is presumably for poking into a hole somewhere in the hive body?

What's that called please and what is it for?

I'm sorry to hear about the trouble cnb. Can you please say what the beekeeper has said to you in reply? You've done the right thing approaching them first.

Steamed the wax from some queen excluders.

Fantastic Bee Key. I'll just make up a mental picture of it. "Eggs begin to be forcefully reclined". Appreciated. I can sleep better now :hurray:

These may help.... https://www.researchgate.net/publication/232679366_Variation_in_Time_of_Egg_Hatch_by_the_Honey_Bee_Apis_mellifera_Hymenoptera_Apidae https://www.researchgate.net/figure/First-three-stages-of-honey-bee-egg-hatching-A-An-egg-as-it-appears-from-oviposition_fig1_232679366 And...

Yes, but of course, as we know, the 501st could have killed.

Teddy Wakefield used to just run each hand down his forearms a few times after working the hives to brush the stings off. I've been told they don't notice them really. Murray Arkadieff told a story once when they were moving a load of bees at night and the truck went over in a wet ditch...

They are commercial though, not back-yarders. We ran into a bloke here recently from NSW. He drove the semi-trailers for a beekeeping operation there with 14000 hives. They are often working them all day, taking them to different places and pollination contracts etc. You couldn't wear...

I do that with all of mine (multiple times), except if the lugs are broken. Sometimes I'll re-tension the wires with the crimper. Takes a second or two. Popping in new foundation is a cinch.

They are starting to look a lot more like what we use down here. Wire running across.

Fabulous. I've got nothing else but flat sided bars. :)

I heard a (gloveless) commercial beekeeper recently saying he gets about 200 stings a day on occasions.

The forecast later in the week looks good over there. London in particular. 23 degrees for four days in a row is good.

I'm not sure, but keep a keen eye on them. It's a great photo of the two queens and the cell in any case :)