Recent content by clv101

Over the next six weeks I need to move six hives to a new apiary around 100m away. They are currently on stands in pairs. I'd really like to avoid taking them off site if possible so I'm planning to wait for a period of forecast bad weather (to minimise flying?), then move one hive from each...

I thought his trial data was pretty clear, the evidence is far beyond 'wishful thinking'? Why do you say it's mythical? I thought his freeze kill experiments, repeated there times per colony showed 'hygienic behaviour' is clearly a thing and one that varies naturally. His subsequent breading...

It's not so much the genes being diluted. Remember the queen mates with a lot of drones, if only 1 of them was hygienic, that alone with this virgin being hygienic will mean that some of the workers are hygienic. You only need a fraction of the individual workers to have the right genes for the...

I've wondered this over the years but never looked into it. Why doesn't every small time amateur beek register for VAT, make a saving on beekeeping equipment but not have to charge any extra on honey sales?

Another vote for the circular saw over the jigsaw. Also try and get a guide rail.

Absolutely. The Met Office publish 1 month and 3 months outlooks every month at the bottom of this page: http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/publicsector/contingency-planners They say the greatest risk of cold weather impacts is March and the February-April period is biased towards slightly colder than...

I moved to Mac at home in 2008 and never looked back, so much better than Windows, and use Linux at work. Whenever I come across a Windows machine it feels very oldskool. Having said that, I did upgrade an old Windows 7 box to Windows 10 a while ago and despite having to hack around the video...

Are you able to find and add links to the events on local BKA websites as they appear? As you must be getting pretty well polished now, have you thought about recording one for YouTube?

Surely that's not true? Aren't some subsidies based on how much land you have and various land management schemes you partake in - that could be a dairy farm. Here's a list of UK payment recipients with 'dairy' in their name: http://farmsubsidy.openspending.org/search/?q=dairy&country=GB

Going back a bit but this got me thinking. How does bee farming compare to arable farming, dairy farming, sheep farming etc? My understanding is that bee farmers aren't receiving any subsidies and yet without them many conventional farming enterprises are loss making? Once you strip away the...

It's also worth pointing out that that 40Ah rating on the side only applies at a specific rate of discharge, probably C20. A 12A load is much higher, around C3 so you won't get the full 40Ah out of it. In fact you might only get ~60% of the C20 capacity when discharged at C3. It's worth taking...

You may not agree with all they do, and even strongly disagree with some activities. But they probably do a lot of good too. Seems a bit harsh to tar the whole organisation with the same brush. The vast majority of their work is urban/city based anyway.

There isn't a section 3.4.2?

Yeah, I bought 5 boxes from Cake Stuff last month. Good stuff.

Remarkable books, read them 20 years ago. Great to see them freely available around the world now.