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Hi folks last year my hives were being attacked I tried narrowing the entrance to one bee space with out much success. I hade a length of 25mm x 16mm mini cable trunking. So cut a few lengths to 200mm long. Cut out a slot to the capping of the trunking and drilled a small hole each end of the...

Hi Toby I've been speaking to several beek,s over the last few of weeks. We are seeing the same very busy on clover and Balsam but not much in the way of store's. I don't know if the earlier very dry weather has some affect on the pollen. Or the late start to the growing season due to the long...

Hi HM I was working near one of my hives a little while back. I was being inspected by several bees as it was hot I only had shorts on. I went inside and sprayed AVON skin so soft and had no further inspections so it seam to work. NO I don't sell AVON. got mine from flea bay. Andy

Hi betterbee i to have learned more this last two years with the poor weather we and the bees have endured. I will make sure that i use dummy boards and internal insulation inside the hive at the end of the season to save them having to keep the cavrn warm (Thx Rab)I will also use the thymol...

Looking at Finmans recipes i am thinking that i may use Amb**sia syrup as it has fructose 37-40% glucose27-30%, surcose30-36% as it should cover the liquid and the above ingredents?

Yes i don't give to them anymore. They a have moved from what they were set up to do shame

OR stupidly allow vermin to control what goes on in our lives. Or we can take hold of our own lives and control what happens. Would you not kill a Rats, mice, ants. flies wasps and such like I would.

Hi i have spoken to a mole catcher today, he said which ever trap you use make sure that the trap is level or slightly lower than the run. As moles prefer to go down rather than up if there is something in the way.

You could always look for a vegan (Radged) comes to mind as long as you give him a perch as he has the moral high ground.

Pargyle No tom sauce just mustard. Strange how most of us are meat eaters and we are the the ones he sees as being beneath him. The Fool knows nothing about beekeeping and proceeds to preach to us. I care more for my soda crystals that cleans my Hive tool than i care about him. Thats after i...

Yes just like the the others that don't believe in blood transfusions and such like they try push thier beliefs on us. So to the OP i had a mixed grill, steak, lamb chop, small pork chop, black pudding, fried egg and veg fried onions Mushrooms few chips oh and mustard. Then for afters Egg...

Yes but feeding may keep the hive viable. There is very little pollen here at the moment a little snowdrop which is about done. We have a small weeping willow in the yard which has not shown any pollen as of yet. The hedge rows show no sign of budding and when they do we will probably need 4 to...

Right softend dates into blender mixed with soya and brewers yeast, vitamin tablets, oil. Water used to soften dates into sugar. Mix all the ingredients roll out into patties sorted.

Hi i have just shopped at Tesc0s for the multivitamins £1.43, vitamins B complex £!.69, Magnesium £2.39 2for the price of 3.Greaseproof paper. sunflower oil total £7.67 loads left for more patties.

HI finman i take it that we use boiling water on the dates then discard the Fruit. I was shopping for brewers yeast in the horse feed store. They also sold soya oil i was wondering if the oil would be usable for Patties?. thanks Andy