Recent content by David P

Made same mistake last year, never again i know it was my bees moved it though, came back next day to see a big cluster of bees over the so called cone escape (wasp entrance) took em less than 18 hours to move the lot . Decided they could keep the stores since they worked so hard.

Yup and i bet his bees are totally free from varroa as well

id say those were cells of sealed stores , so more vital than suspicous

B&Q will cut for free

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If you are going to use ply then take the cutting plan to B&Q. they are currently doing free cutting on sheet materials. If the member of staff tries to tell you its limited to 15 cuts tell them to check with management as they are advertising free. I have had 5 sheets cut on separate occaisons...

and as a by the by the MB polys have a lovely deep handle on all sides so much easier than thos nasty wooden nats with you have to pick up from the same two sides. :D

No other beekeepers for miles around sounds ideal, get yourself on top of swarm control and get slecting your best queens for breeding make sure you got plenty of drones and away you go. There will be plenty on here wish they were able to have as much potential control over the drone pool. David

and thats my problem with it all, dont get me wrong I would love this to work, but something that finds whatever it is youre looking for is a little bit fairytale for me. Go out into a field with your coathangers intent on finding beehive sites all the time having to hope your not thirsty or...

Which kinda brings me to my question on it all really. How do you dowse for lay lines as opposed to water or do we just have to hope that Severn Trent water have put all their pipes on lay lines. How do you know that your hives are situated on a mystical crossing of lay lines as opposed to the...

Knows its not recommended but if they are leather pop them in the washing machine using washing soda rather than washing powder. allow to dry naturally and leather should be softish after a few finger wiggles. If using normal Marigold kitchen gloves soak in hot water with washing soda. David

that will be the one then , whoops. As for location Gloucester. David

should have included a ruler next to images but overall it well over an inch long , didnt realise hoverflys got that big David

Caught this fellow this morning snooping round one of my hives. I'm assuming its am European Hornet,but it looks stockier than most of the pics. PS Nothing brave about these pics it had an hour in the freezer first.

Heard this before but i n the context of a balloon covered in papier mache and painted gray ( a tad cheaper than £12.99) As to whether it would work im guessing over to Karol.