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So I am the sort of person who "commissions" things like 12-frame Konigin extractors. I was VERY amused that the "white controller" is a box containing.... well you get ONE guess. (Hint: the white box is bigger than the black controller). I haven't looked at what they've done simplifying the...

I have always taken your word on this and boy I hope you're right in my current case as my best colony popped up with sealed QCs in the top box. I don't think they've swarmed but I didn't see her (did see eggs) and they had a very early open QC downstairs. Just one. Will keep a close, close eye...

Half a strip on nucs.

Were you treating at all? I had some odd behaviour today and lost a small swarm: for the life of me can't work out where and the best idea I can come up with is that it was a partial abscondment from one of the (small) colonies I was treating with MAQS. Annoying.

I have used only deep Nationals from day one. I think it was reading on here before I got bees that sent me that way. Michael Palmer, I think it was. One of the thoughtful US beeks, anyway. The flexibility is amazing. In good years, getting a super or Demaree box off the top can be an...

This is brilliant. I am replacing a Thornes failed motor and the challenge I am running into is the 90-deg turn (achieved in your situation with the bevel gears). I have a vertically-mounted variable-speed 12V brushed motor off a running treadmill vertically mounted but this is all highly...

In a forum black hole. Sorry.

Absolutely fair. I have a Kilner of 2kg sugar and 1.25l water in my 19C kitchen and I am giving up shaking/inverting it and will feed the liquid. NB: this is not an experiment: I am a stingy feeder.

Yes: any browning (2:1 starts greenish) is HMF which is toxic. TBH, I think the dangers are over-rated but that is just my view and that there is an issue, there is no doubt.

1:1, I agree. Try that with 2:1 and you will stir till the end of time.

Thymolated syrup? But I take your point... BTW: anyone unfamiliar with syrup who ends up here, look up thymol mixes as well. eg Hivemaker's (RIP) recipe which is stickied somewhere. You lucky, lucky lot: I have run out as it happens What to do about Nosema?

NEVER too early. I could be accused of (badoom) "stirring it" but the 1.25l point is so easy and everyone seems to struggle with it so I will repeat ad nauseam...

Consider yourself lambasted! 1:1 is a pound in a pint. 2:1 is two pounds in a pint. Those are not the same as a kilo in a litre or two kilos in a litre. They are close enough not to matter with 1:1 (+/- 10pct or so: who cares: the bees don't). But at 2:1 you are straddling the limit of...

@greandog this is reported across most of the nation. Certainly it has been my experience. Some in Wales are irritatingly talking of running out of supers but you will have HUGE variations across the UK and even across quite short distances because of the nature of the variations in the weather...

Enthusiastic agremeent with @jenkinsbrynmair : I was reading the thread to the end with a view to posting similar - maybe a bit differently worded :biggrinjester: . I just can't imagine sticking in a highly-derived toxin, which if it doesn't have resistance issues, will soon have, when there is...

Gaaah. I was hoping that somehow Mike was talking of someone else. His Bucky Q that the family nearly drowned while I was in hospital is my common ancestor and will be forever short of som - nah, forever. She was #3 and best Q right now is 3.5.1.1.1. I think there might be one swarm cell in that...

I think I've seen AB but I'm not sure. Films show them moving fast, but they are high up so are those films speeded up or do the things flicker fast?

Noisy?

I have noticed that my sort-of-Buckfasty bees have cranky offspring if mated very late. I put that down to "hardier" native drones being on the wing then: a notoriously cranky hybrid. That aside, I would say you are fine at LEAST until ivy is flowering, personally.

Stress TRY. I took a run at selecting for DWV-B when this research came out. Documented to some extent here. I'm breeding mites (well, DWV really) .But for reasons clearly illustrated in this thread it is hard unless you make it the centre of your breeding program, which I did not. My bees'...