Recent content by Jowlpost

These were not invented by Filipe Salbany which I assume is the reason the web site is no longer working . Currently available from National Bee Supplies, Thornes and Bee.Watch. Apparently 1200 just ordered by the Kenyan Beekeeping Association. I have them on all my hives and gone are the days...

Yes because we are the only ones to have tested for glyphosate. Think about it 560 x the legal limit .. not quite enough to use honey as a week killer.

Hi Donad . thanks for that insight into your wealth of knowledge.

PS there are 4 of us in the street here. 1 lost all 6, the next 3 out of 4 and the other all 3. Add that to ours as we didn't find this out until we started asking. In remote placs like West Virginia you have to be registered (like most other countries in the world) to keep bees, and by law...

1) You are 5 years out of date ... Fera Science Limited (Fera), formerly the Food and Environment Research Agency, is a joint venture based in the United Kingdom owned by Capita (75%) and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) (25%). as you may understand from this the...

Hi Thanks for the suggestion ..

Correct .. We had 49 colonies in September, 44 were on their own stores and we set up 5 control nucs. We lost 31 of the 44 but all 5 of the nucs were fed sugar, and all survived.

Hi This has been going on for years but getting worse every year, we have had 1 swarm in our village in 3 years. The recent saga .. we informed the NBU and we collected samples of the few dead bees remaining in hives in December 2019. 3 months later 2 bee inspectors then came out and went...

Hi This has been going on for years but getting worse every year, we have had 1 swarm in our village in 3 years. The recent saga .. we informed the NBU and collected saples of dead bees in December 2019. 2 bee inspectors came out and went through all our hives and reposted back that thery...

Hi .. do you have your honey tested for pestcides? .. we were supicious as to why every year WIIS tests on reported bee losses never found the single most common pestcide in the whole world. The pesticide Bayer just paid out over £8 billion in the USA over, regarding cancer cases. Last winter...

So yours stay out all the time .. so all the wax and other detritus drops out onto the ground, attracting wax moth, attracting small hive beetle, attracting mice, attracting wasps, attracting pigmy shrews , attacting hornets and all the other things most bee keepers are trying to avoid. Plus...

Hi .. thanks for that .. I’m not arguing with anyone. Having read Langstroth’s book to find out the thinking behind his patent and I can see very little to show he spent much time researching or justifying the “bottom entrance”. Seems to me he should have limited his patent to the removeable...

Will do .... this season and last .. no wasps and no robbing in the apiary as once they learn they cant get in they go elsewhere. It must be fun to change the size of your entrance when they have propolised it up, knelt down with your hive tool with a face full of guard bees, that why lots of...

Hi This is the basic hive configuration. The basement box ( has part waxed frames) and solid floors eliminate draughts so the queen will lay down if she wants, the workers can build whatever comb is needed (stores/drones) and the workers will filll the supers above so she cant lay up there...

familiarisation flights?