Recent content by JohnofBlagdon

I attended a lecture a couple of years ago, where a lady from the company developing this bee-powered tester told us about how they train the bees (it takes just a few minutes, as opposed to three or four months for a dog). When the bee senses the smell it's been trained to detect, it sticks...

The positive spin-off from this process is that you're also prettywell sterilising the frames ready for re-use. If you can store them in something airtight over the winter, they should be ready for foundation in the Spring, without worrying about them being contaminated with wax moth or virus.

Do you have to go on a course, or be trained by the local authority, to be authorised to deal with wasp nests? I presume there must be some control over the stuff used to despatch them.

Yup, second that. Or stuff some grass into the entrance, to slow them down a bit.

I'm blowed if I can work out how to edit my profile, as it's confession time - I'm gradually replacing my Nationals with Rose OSB's. I've been looking at Tim Rowe's website for several years, bought the book, and it seems to make sense. I realised that although my back is OK at the moment...

Been reading here for several years, the advice given seems pretty sound. Yeo Valley? Their main yoghurt plant is about 300 yards away, just over the hill, so we don't hear much. Can't say I'm turned on by tractors, especially when I'm stuck behind one in a narrow lane doing 20mph, and there...

I've been a reader of this forum for some while, but this is my first post. I hope I don't sound patronising if I say what a pleasure it is to be on here. There's almost no sniping, and more experienced beeks, in the main, answer questions without looking down on less experienced people. This...

Are the drill-powered extractors noisy? And do you have to stay there with your finger on the trigger? Thanks in anticipation.