Recent content by Pete D

It will be interesting to see how many of these survivor bees actually survive this winter with limited stores and no varroa treatment. Judging by the amount of deadouts due to either of the above that I am getting calls / e mails about in 'managed' colonies. The un-seasonally warm weather has...

Also worth a read is Avril's article in Beecraft earlier this year giving her account of becoming an inspector. She will openly tell you its her dream job both before she got it and now 3 years in.

Quite a lot of mixed views and misconceptions about the bee inspector role on here. I started as an SBI 6 years ago, I am now an RBI. I don't have any qualifications except the BBKA basic and the NBU in house City & Guilds. You do need to be able to demonstrate a good background in apiculture...

Hi, I / we are not aware that Varroa affect AH, I doubt it as Varroa need a continuous lifecycle of their host to live. As for other parasites I guess they would have had to come over with the original incursion of a single Queen into France years ago. Do wasps have parasites, Karol will know.

I can 100% confirm it was an Asian Hornet nest. The 2nd one I have dealt with this year. The team responded, tracked and traced it, had it killed and removed. We are good at telling the difference between the Hornets. We had over 10,000 reports last year with 1 confirmed nest, most of the...

Really, why on earth would you say that ?

Peugeot partner van, 1.6 diesel. I have had 2, 50+ to the gallon and never misses a beat. No good on a wet grassy slope. Carry 6 decent hives or double stack 12 single brood hives and a few pallets.

4 x Seasonal Bee Inspectors jobs on the civil service job website, search animal and plant health agency. South East, Southern, North East and Eastern form an orderly queue

How do you guys who keep and promote the use of Warre hives carry out effective checks for brood diseases such as efb.

Each year is different in terms of when and if there is a broodless period. As an example I had reason to pull a brood box apart on the 8th December 2018 in Yorkshire, there were 3 frames with brood on in all stages, therefore the Queen was laying in late November and brood would of still been...

Good that DEFRA can keep supplying a constant stream of inspectors to inspect goods for other peoples financial gain. The more and more of this they do will just take them away from their day job of keeping EFB and AFB at manageable levels. They also have a job on their hands keeping Asian...

you can buy std national nucs and add them to a 14x12 brood box with new frames, it wouldn't take long to work them out as the draw and lay up the new frames. I have a beekeeping friend who is now of an age where he wants to reduce from 30-10 colonies. Std nationals. He will sell these in spring...

For me they look better and about the same size as a lb round but with only 12oz of honey. Its just personal taste.

Yep. its a pallet full, no charge for pallet and no charge for delivery. Well done, it lost its layout once I copied and paste it

my last invoice from Compak, jars - 29.2p each inc caps and vat Item Code Description Quantity Unit VAT Code Net 12HEX 12OZ ( 280ml ) HEX JAR 63T/O x 84 ,30 BX 84 1 £615.00 (+£123.00 vat) 63TOG 63MM GOLD TWIST OFF CAP X 100. 25.2 BX 100 1 £0.00 10PAILT/E 10LT EURO PAIL C/W T/E LID & PLASTIC...