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Hi Pete When I was a lad we played down Sandwell valley, the mine was still active and we would ride down the slag heap on our bikes, there was a big fishing pond there we called it wasan pool (swan pool) it was feed by one or two small streams these used to be full of crayfish, don’t know if...

Is the description (Please note the majestic clean lines and microscopic attention to detail.) for the woodwork or the plastic bee escape? I must be missing something here because on the David A. Cushman website there are loads of bee escapes of different designs, it also as the one used by...

this might help? http://www.*****************/bee/lozengeescapebd.html here is the missing bit: dave - cushman dot net

I was not thinking of this as a total cure for varroa but a tool to help reduce the overall numbers of varroa mites, but the post from Midland Beek: (In any bee colony it is only the older bees that go out foraging; perhaps about 50% of all the bees in a colony. Now if you were a varroa mite...

Please tell me this is NOT a wind-up

If you change 30% of the old black frames as you say where in the hive would the black frames be, in the middle of the hive, or on the outer frames. I only ask as a novice because as I understand it the queen tends to lay mainly on the middle frames and less on the outer frames, If this is the...

I have nothing against new technology but I am a bit of a traditionalist and like the look of wood but I bet your bees a nice and warm in the winter.

Thanks for the reply and link but there was not much in the replies about the quality of their beehives

Hi Thinking of buying my beehives from this company http://www.caddon-hives.co.uk/about.html the price looks ok and the hives look very well made, anyone know of them or purchased a hive from them. Thanks

On the subject of bees and the varroa mite I thought this was quite a good video for beginners http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7304562435786960616#

So it looks like it’s an old idea, they say the best ideas have already been done, Looks like I wont be making my fortune out of the idea then. Although I could come up with a super duper sort of walk through car wash for bees!!

Hi I have a small amount of hands on beekeeping experience helping my uncle with his bees when I was a lad , I have read a couple of books on the subject and was thinking about getting back into beekeeping. Now keep in mind that I am no where near as knowledgeable as some of the people on...

WD40 works for me every time.

Thank you Queens59 and DanBee, might buy this book if its as good as you say, its on Amazon for £13.83 Thanks again

I did say it was an old book 1950 and was not sure if they were used today, I am no expert but the sections in this book are full right to the corners and I can remember the ones I saw at the honey show were also full to the corners, must be that the bees are lazier today than when I was a lad