Recent content by trapperman

Oops didn't read page 2 😂 sorry glad to hear he's back👍🏻

Really hope it's just tucked up somewhere mate, my old mum always says to me when I get something new for my smallholding "oh you shouldn't have got that it'll be pinched" but I say you can't live like that you have to do what you want to and just hope the "scum" stay away unfortunately there is...

every year i treat a few nests close to these fake nests so i dont think they work, i had one last year within 6" got to laugh. but i would think things like this will always sell well on hope value alone just like magic diet pills.

I have got a BB1 under the chrimbo tree for me, i tryed it on to make sure i got the right size and it fits great, £98 with free gloves i hope a good investment.

When i`m baiting i quite often use a paste bait that is pasta based and stops any taking away of the bait, in my experience they seem to prefer it to grain based baits also.

I did a wasp nest a few weeks ago above a bathroom window, they were going to leave it but the daughter left the bathroom light on with the window open, later that evening the guy went for a pee to find he was sharing the bathroom with a couple of thousand wasps. apparently that was the last straw.

God so true that pyracantha is a nightmare, i`ve had so many thorns go in and snap off when cutting hedges and then go infected, the stuffs a bloody menace:willy_nilly:.

Me two, i`m in my second season and yet to get nailed, i was starting to think i`m doing something wrong.

Hey JK my records 5 nests on one house so i have a way to go before i get near yours. hows your season going.

If i had the choice between a 18 year old kid straight from agricultural collage with all his bits of paper, or a 70 year old farmer with no certificates whos been farming for years, to plough my land i know who i would pick. What i`m trying to say is a certificate/qualification means nothing...

This is what i did, albeit by accident, and has worked fine, just enough to hold the original colony back a bit and increase numbers two.

I`ve just hatched off 12 from 16 eggs, they are so tiny. I`ve never kept them before myself, the kids want to keep these in the back garden, looks like i need to get the hammer and nails out.

o.k my bad, but in my defence i only tryed this way because i saw a guy on utube using it, i think it was georgia bees john pluta, to make candles, and i just thought thats nice and simple. Anyway lesson learned and at least fairly cheaply

I visited the thornes shop at windsor yesterday, had a good look around and brought a few bits and bobs. I got 3 different small wax moulds including 1 of the beeswax 1oz blocks, i came home and gave them a try with my son, i melted some wax in a glass jug in the microwave it wasnt boiling just...

What newspaper do you use to combine? Do your bees prefer the times or perhaps the guardian? Or are they smutty little girls that get the daily sport? Would you use page 3 of the sun and risk upsetting them? I think i need to get out more:biggrinjester:.