Recent content by Dookie

The world of bees seems small so who is stealing them and who is buying them? It's all odd.

I love this idea. Can you imagine how much you would soil your suit if you was trying to steal bees at night and when you opened them there was a flashbang.

Finding another place is not going to be an option. Its taken nearly a year to find this place

Well there is a ww2 museum near the site, I will ask if they have any left overs. I do think they have a tank, I will ask if they can point it directly at the hives

I might put one of those ipod tracker things in the roof. At least if they go

Morning I've found a place to keep my 3 beehive, it on an allotment near me. Last year the person who used to keep bees in thr same place had all their hives stolen in the night. So before I set my girls up is there anything/anyway to stop it happening again? I was thinking of padlocked...

PIR insulation? The stuff to insulate walls?

That makes sense. The metal is hard wearing, the felt would rip. I will put metal on the roof then

afternoon I'm building some national beehives and I was wondering why they have metal roofs. I was going to put shed felt on mine unless I'm missing something. cheers

Hi My friend says he has a bee/wasp nest in his garage that he wants me to get rid off. He is about an hours drive so i asked him to send me a picture however i cant tell if its a bee or a wasp, Im leaning to wasp but happy to be wrong.

My bees are running low and i want to give them some fondant but all the delivery dates are for late next week and I'm nervous that it might be to late then. Is there something i can use in the mean time? Thanks

Went down to check on my hives yesterday and one of them has been completely destroyed by wasps. It was a weak hive anyway but still would of made it through the winter. So my question is do i take out all the frames and burn them?

Afternoon all I am doing a favour of a friends mum. she has a wasp nest underground in her garden. I said i will get rid of it for her. So i was just wondering if my full suit is wasp proof? My bees have never stung me through it but i dont know much about wasps. Any ideas? Cheers

I don't think they need vorroa but i worry and they do need feeding as I'm about to take the honey (yes i know its late)

Morning all I have been away from my hives for the last 2 months and I'm playing catch up with my hives. Im going to start to feeding them in the next couple of day and was wondering if i can kill two birds with one stone an treat them for varroa as well? Or have i missed the boat for both...