I thought a lot about these things, and apparently, a less elegant way to tackle this problem is decoupling power harvesting and propulsion. Like, put your best suitable power plant on a boat, then conduct power to best propulsion (probably submerged turbine or something)

Nah, it’s like salt - vampire would stop to count and read all entries and scroll to the bottom.

As native Russian speaker, this is terribly rarely used in this full format (and it’s one among many), but genuine, I’ve heard it IRL.

“Тебя не ебёт, так не подмахивай”

This is highly and universally derogatory, you could expect to hear it from lowlife/criminal, which, unfortunately, is what most russians are lately, though. For russian nazi population, this implies that you are gay or a slut, depending on biological sex, and that’s close to your life worth nothing. For the rest, this is just something nazies would say to insult you.

The first part alone, though, is quite socially acceptable and overused. I guess, because it’s lost the whole lore behind it, and showing your knowledge of whence it came from kind of reveals that it’s not just an empty word, but you mean it.

I’m a bit hyperfocused on swearing, am I? Was one of my childhood’s special interests.

Honestly, “mind your beeswax” is also a rare gem, but not quite so rare.

Looks like they nest in rotten wood, not soil. They overwinter in soil though, so dump the thing before the fall. Overwintering in freezable bucket would be a questionable idea anyway.

I don’t have any experience with these bees though, just some reading.

Russians be like “they can’t march, maybe they can’t even clean a toilet bowl with their fork or fuck and tortue a child, we totally win”

I just shove wires into wax with some two-pronged hard implement (to push on the sides of cell ridge).

I’ve also tried using woodburning iron to melt a few spots of wax to the frame, it worked amazing (and cutting pretty honeycomb from the frame was never easier), but with one catch: if wether is hot and bees are slacking, it deforms faster then they reinforce it and wax rolls off. These frames survived my centrifuge too, the trick is to make syre bees attach it on all sides by, well, tack-soldering on all sides indeed. Will not work with op’s casts and centrifuge though.

Was thinking for a year that casting flat wax and then rolling it with patterned roll press might be better idea. Anyone tried that?

Winter just came back hard, something about polar vortex. Bees are smart! I remember some years trees like apples were frostbitten in blooming with sudden frosts. Could this happen to alder or birch? What are we going to do then?

I have alder flowers swollen, have to check them daily. It seems they should be emitting, but they do not stain fingers yet. Bees seem to know it regardless of weather, they do not fly out and sensors indicate that they are calm. I’m in central Finland though.