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In this months edition of BBKA news, page 7 says a colony needs 20kg of stores to see it through the winter. Now I know im a newbee but if its 2.5 kg per brood frame then in a brood box where would the bees go? Surely they mean 20 pounds! But they state 20kg(40lb) :eek:

Thank goodness all the fuss has dies down and this thread is confined to history. No more hocus pocus.;)

We use solar molers, solar powered devices that buzz, dont seem to have had moles for a few years now, they are all in the field next door.

Thanks CB008, I owndered whether the hive is cedar or not? Can anyone tell? Will ask my mentor next time he is here

Hi Chris, I have a brood box with a super(brood and a half),its a national. It has a super on top of that where the honey is. On monday my mentor hlped me locate the queen and move her to the brood box for the winter. The QE is now above the brood box to get all the brood down there for...

Hi Dave. My first year as well, got hold of a colony late July! Bees are doing well, lots of orientaton flights which are amazing(the first one scared me as I thought they were going to swarm- now its a pleasure to see) I am being mentored by a friend at school who has been a beek for 30 years...

Thankyou, Im feeling better already, however id like a second opinion from dr stilton(sorry stitson-whoops, make it dr strangelove) Please tell me dowsing is complete and utter c£?% and then i can begin my rehabilitation

or you dowse

How can i stop reading it? The drivel of hocus pocus and people clutching at things that dont exist! I need therapy now! Help me doc, but help them first!

somebody please end this thread !!! Please !

Please tell us what is hokum and what is real: Tarot cards Crystal healing Ouija board Water witching(dowsing !!) bending spoons spotting UFOs being abducted by aliens seances ghosts etc etc You seem to know PS: Einstein was dyslexic, wondered what would have happened if he had put 3 instead...

Should have been E = mc cubed !

Experiments should be done by impartial people. 1 out of 483 is insiginificant and amounts to noise in the data.

This sounds a little like induced hysteria, the dowsers know where the water is and they are 'expected' to show the sticks bending. What else would you expect to happen? Try the ouija board, that probably works on the same principle.

Beer