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New Zealand has a particular set of conditions that require very radical solutions. Tinkering with wasp hive bettles and hoverflies is...

Disrupting surface tension works for a while but wasps float when then drown creating a raft which will prevent other wasps from...

The danger of using low efficiency traps. They only recruit more wasps to the vicinity. If you look very carefully you will notice wasps...

It's highly unlikely that low density trapping of queens will provide relief in the autumn unless the apiary a couple of miles away from...

Remote monitoring might be very useful for gauging flow viz need to feed vs monitoring health of hives perhaps when visits aren't...

I thought this was an interesting read: https://tinyurl.com/y5feoua2 Open paper from Bristol on bee foraging egress rates. Sorry can't...

Thank you I think this thread has its day now.

It seems I went a little too far with what at the time I thought was a little tongue in cheek reference to historic German activity. It...

History does have a tendency to get warped. My grandfather and his compatriots accepted the fact that the West was spent and that...

Oh I really do hope that it doesn't happen ... I've spent a lot of time in Europe over the years and have always found the people in all...

The German regulators have authorised the Pfizer Biontec vaccine for patients over the age of 65. Quite rightly the German regulator...

My Dad's picture is in the same book! My Dad almost died from malaria in Iran. He was unconscious for months. He has never stopped...

Two wrongs don't make a right. This is a better piece on the subject...

Every time the UK tabloid press bash the EU with ridiculous stories such as the EU wanting to steal UK vaccines drives it gives oxygen...

Likewise that's my experience of Europeans too. My comments were very much aimed at the UK populace and the populism that has pervaded...