Recent content by nikca

How can you have “your own approach” when you know nothing about beekeeping? tell you what, read loads of books,get some Microsoft flight sim time in, and now go fly a plane. Get an instructor, but don’t listen, as you’ve now “got your own approach” Does that sound sensible?

This has to be a Troll Thread doesn’t it? ive done some reading... so know better than thousands of years of combined knowledge on this forum. ive got my plan and I’m sticking to it no matter what who is going to want to be a Mentor to this attitud? I’m local, and “not I” the most pertinent...

Useful thread... and another proof of the maxim 2 beeks/3 opinions 😏 Drastic moves like uniting can wait Id day... and as you knew yourself (drones around)

Removed a few when I was living in France - one on my land 50m from my hives. Nests always way up in tall trees - which is not even an option on this quiz 🤷🏻

St Patrick? :icon_204-2: They are indeed little buggers, but not the end of the beekeeping world. When the leaves dropped this year I found I had an Vespa Velutina nest 50m from my hives, next to my own middle lake. Neither I not the visiting fishermen had noticed it all year. It does explain...

BBC Future Maddie Moate "What would happen if bees went extinct?" Ok, I know I set myself up for this by watching it. The awful grammar in the title should have warned me, but I thought "what the hey, it's just how young people speak now, innit?". I cringed a few times but 4:45 and...

This happened to me last year... could NOT find HM in a STUFFED 14x12 with 2 supers. Bees were 2 deep on the frames and not as friendly as usual. Put a frame with 1 sealed/1 uncapped on old site in new box with a few of what I hoped were young bees, HM somewhere on new site with old frames. She...

And the massive swarm made me 20+kg of honey even though it was July IIRC. Thanks Mike! They are doing well in their national - but they are sods!

First Inspections After a month of on-and-off sunshine and flowers, and about 10 days of June weather I thought maybe an inspection was in order... not quite by the :rules: book maybe. First National full stores/9 brood little space/full stores. Few empty play cups. 2 Frames 50% drone. Middle...

Me too - I'm in between Busserolles and Piegut... PM me when you get here :-)

I gave the answer in post 2!

Oriental Hornet, Vespa Orientalis. NOT currently packing it's bags and heading for the UK, and within it's range where you saw it - though about as close to NW Europe as it gets.

Or burn the house down and then save the bother of the porch... You do know this is a forum for bee-keepers, right?

Not really aggressive to me - mostly they meet my badminton racquet, but on the odd occasion my backhand is lacking they seem to get the message and bugger off away from the hives. (typically they hover around the hives and wait for a straggler) Sting is similar to European hornets, and wasps.

Just what I said: you have to be careful with the written word - far easier to misinterpret than when face to face. Not a worry: just go to Mx5Nutz instead! It's where the nicer Mazda Modder hangs out ;)