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    Ham Radio and Bee Keepers

    good luck with your net, de G7NCG///M0BRM
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    Cambridgeshire hive called the "Cottages"

    they were used by Chiver's fruit farms all around Cambs and Huntingdonshire, I have one which is used as bait hive, Olly they are still warring in the Fens never ended
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    Winter prep observation

    50 to 300 bees old summer workers and kicked out drones 2000 to 3000 bees not much you can do now till spring, if flying bees look ok should be ok
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    Bait hive

    lasts 3 up 6 weeks never really go's over swarm season have used with good results 8 takes last season 4 so far this season
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    Deformed Wing Virus

    I have a colany that I suspected of robbing out a feral colany nearby early this year my bees had shown no varroa drop this spring but now a brood cycle later have DWV bees dropping out of front enterance, which local Robin clears up very quick, so was a job to pick up still no indication of bad...
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    As welcom as a boil on the bum

    went to Peterbourough & District BKA, auction as a passenger with 55 lots to put in auction, arrived about 10.40hrs, lots taken in between 10.00hrs and 12.00hrs as we drew into site was greeted with the words NO ROOM FOR YOU, YOU WERE TOLD ON PHONE NOT TO COME, myself had never spoken to or made...
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    Ramipril and bee stings

    on 2.5 ramipril no reaction to stings other than first minute, also take a bucketfull of other heart tabs for some time with no probs, or cough
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    mild bees flying

    none of them left! just euro fighters and whatever the Yanks have got airworthy or not.
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    mild bees flying

    all hives with bees flying on cleansing flights today 22/12, 10C in Cambs.:seeya:
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    Jars & Lids

    which do the public like best, 12oz or 1lb jars, also gold metal lids or white plastic lids, any thoughts please, not necessarily your own preference, but Joe Public's
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    Wild life strip

    No problems I have one of my sites in one of these wildlife strips, farmer and all concerned very happy
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    Cq cq cq

    local 2m &70Mhz, 6M, 70cms local Rpt, HF in M/home if I ever need to set up,done lots of Hf DX, but like 23/13cms best, best DX on these 2 bands OK.
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    bees in a chimney in March, Cambridgeshire.

    given the chap my phone No. when he gets scaffold up and no one else wants to help will give a try, can always combine if miss queen:ack2:
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    Cq cq cq

    g7ncg//m0brm. m/wave 23/13cms:hat:
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