ericbeaumont's latest activity

Would love to see more info on your setup with not much kit ideas?

That's a good start because in design terms most have been treading water since 1956. How many do you need? Unless you choose...

It's just a Mourne thing, it's always been done like this, a lot of it is just to keep face, if the hedges got long the neighbouring...

I now people who have simple coloring explained so they can differentiate wasps from bees - wasps have yellow tails - and still fail to...

The Yellow legged Hornet idea is spot on.It is all about publicity and marketing in a consumer friendly way, good post and very informative

Arrived early July. Even if she started laying on day one it would be end of July before you had new worker bees. Why would you expect...

21 days so from day 1 to emerging bees would already be July 30th. Next cycle would be end of August. All is fine and normal IMO, they...

Did you ask him why he cuts so severely?

May have had a slow start if it superseded an old swarm queen; may have been retarded by a lack of income in August which would...

As @jenkinsbrynmair says….. if only we had a national body who could do so on our behalf…..

My honey is bee free too. Just contains dehydrated nectar!

Regrettably, the majority of humans seek the cheapest food with the least inconvenience that requires the least thought. If that were...

I wonder if the constant cry about large scale honey adulteration will aid the artificial honey market?

Looks like it's been in development for at least 3 years: https://beekeepingforum.co.uk/threads/melibio-honey.51925/ Discovered by...

In fact, the EU regulations explicitly define honey as the product of Apis mellifera (excluding cerana, although that's for another...