Recent content by Jim Lavie

To reply to part of the initial question, I found some information that may or may not help but here we go anyway, http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/product-reviews/research-institute/glove-cleaning-tips http://www.howtocleanstuff.net/how-to-clean-leather/ I tried handcream when I had leather...

Hi I have found a pdf for judging honey at the national honey show it may provide some information for you. http://www.honeyshow.co.uk/files/nhspub7.pdf regards Jim

I am not making a recommendation but i saw this and mabe its the sort of thing you might like? http://goo.gl/WTbw7i Regards Jim

Flights, accommodation and food yes I would be for it if this was funded

Hi your diagram seems to explain the dimensions fine, the "hight" from the bottom to the top is 12 in as you have shown, perhaps I don't understand the question. :-) If you enter top bar hives into google you will find plenty of plans especially if you try google images. I hope that helps...

Hmm, press articles in my humble opinion rarely provide a complete and accurate review. If an article sparks your interest, then explore the points with further reading and formulate your opinion using a variety of sources. You could of course treat articles in the Daily Mail as the whole truith...

You state "If it's supercedure, I'll obviously just leave them to it. However, if they really do want to swarm, I reckon doing an artificial swarm isn't appropriate, as it would make 2 weak colonies and they have no chance to build up for the Winter. In that case, maybe the best I can do is...

If you have eggs then they can make more queen cells if needed, I would be tempted to leave them be but I am not an expert, I'm sure othwers will reply soon. regards Jim

One of my crownboards was advertised as a coverboard and came with holes in for feeding and two porter bee escapes available for clearing supers. It spends most of its time covered with another piece of wood so it acts as, well I call it a lid! regards Jim

One of my hives last week,I couldnt find the queen after a brief look, weather was closing in. There was a lot of empty cells and little open brood, I thought queenless as they were also agressive but this week all is well brood, eggs and I found the queen!

My first hive had a gabled roof, two house bricks on the floor kept it stable and I was able to put supers in it during inspections later in the year. The bricks kept the roof on in the wind too!

I am just glad the question was asked, I had this a couple of days ago and thought about it most of the night, yet again this forum helps clarify things. Thanks

I had what I thought were play cups on Friday, but on looking closer there were eggs in the bottom of some. As the weather is forecasted to get colder and it was warm and sunny today I thought I would check again to see if I now had larvae in royal jelly and queen cells. Most cups remain but...

Bee inspector came to me last week part of the reason he said was that I had bought a nuc last year from a company that had foul brood in their area. (FP) He didn't say they actually had foul brood, didn't go into any more details. Got the impression he was just wanting a quick inspection for...

New myself (1yr) i I had this problem and put a few more holes in the paper with my hive tool after 24 hrs and it worked for me! Though what do I know! regards jim