Recent content by alan42

i have 5 fp hives had them for 3 years now i got delivery in 3 days had no problem making them and they are as good today as the day i made them i personaly would recomend them i swaped nails for screws and used waterproof glue and treated with cupernol had no problem with delaminating or with...

not worried about honey this year more concerned with expanding my hives from one to three if possible, thinking of cutting a qu cell out and taking a couple of frames from strong hive and creating a nuke but am i to late to get strong hives for the winter ? this is what i posted and stop me if...

poly hive please read my posts again you still have got it wrong i have NOT said i will take from the weak hive i stated i will take from the strong hive read all my posts not just the last one, before you start calling me names. bound to be a blind school near you, get somebody to direct you...

please read my reply properly i stated from a strong hive, only thing with these forums people dont read things properly and then jump on people or start calling them greedy and such when the fault lies in not reading things properly. and we wounder why people dont post things. thanks for your...

not worried about honey this year more concerned with expanding my hives from one to three if possible, thinking of cutting a qu cell out and taking a couple of frames from strong hive and creating a nuke but am i to late to get strong hives for the winter ?

To cut a long story short i ended up with a queenless hive so put a test frame in. Today i see there are 7 lovely queen cells all sealed up my question is should i leave alone ? should i cut out the 6 cells and leave only one ? will they swarm with the other queens ? ( not a strong hive so dont...

I dont think for one second that the farmers i spoke to even had one of them reasons in mind. i think it was a case of its my land keep off.

I am in a village near middlesbrough I have found a perfect spot for them 7 ponds wild medows a willow plantation shelter and permision to put as many as i want in difrent parts of the land but like I said no thanks to the local farmers.

Having to move my 5 hives from there location to pastures new I went round all the local farms in our area approx 10 farms, wow what a reception I got from not a chance mate I hate those things ( that was from 3 of them ) to I have nothing but trouble from bees ? wouldent elaborate, I asked if I...

Please dont let dogs lick your wounds there body fluid is in no way an antisptic to the human take it from me (paramedic) you are just asking for infection to set in we use and swear by the after bite pen sticks you can get from boots e-bay ect much much more effective and cleaner than letting...