Recent content by Cazza

Hi team. I've run out of mouseguards but don't really want to order any more. Any ideas for guards made out of something I can make or buy locally? Ta.

My guess would be lime if you've recently taken it off and you live down south

I'd taken it out of it's tin.......and lain it down next to the marker pen ready to use it. Best laid plans......

Ouch!

20 futile minutes spent searching for my brand new cot which I knew was there somewhere beside a hive. No wonder I couldn't find it. Next time I'll think to look on my soles.

Cheers Rab. Good to be back. My thinking is, I've just moved house, struggling to build it and start my family and someone sticks chemicals in it that makes the struggle even harder. Might put me off laying and I really need to get on with that.

I use a chopstick to take samples from my cells. After years of playing guess the water content by the way the honey lifts off the refractometer glass with the chopstick, I don't actually need the refractometer any more. Always a fun game to play. In a similar way I learnt from my dad how to...

There's no argument for not treating, it's the timing that I'm not in agreement with. You'll all do whatever you like, whatever I say but I'd let them build up and see how Queenie lays before I blasted them with anything. No problem counting your varroa load and treating in August. Thank you...

Seems to me that you're all a little trigger happy re the need to treat. Been away for a while but nice to see nothing much has changed...hi all.

Flow done and dusted in my part of Suffolk until ivy comes in. Cazza

Isn't white clover a perennial? Cazza

The suit will be one of the best beekeeping investments you'll ever make. Good PPE is vital. Cazza

Clever lad. Photo please. Cazza

Hurrah.:hurray: Go Millet. Cazza