Top ventilation was before mesh floor days. Now many have mesh floors there is no need for top ventilation.
Having no hole in the crown board is no real issue unless you use the hole as part of your winter feed method.
This also means the match sticks under the crown board are a little out of...
Years of experience does not always mean good knowledge.
2 hives for 30 years is about 3000 looks at colones.
100 hives for 3 years has same 3000 looks
1000 colonies well you must have 100s of beekeeping years experience.
Experience is about how you have interacted with the bees and the...
Hi Finman.
I mean that we humans work against the bees at times as we want them to do what we want and not what they want. They can't read the human instruction book.
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Morning (Rubbing my eyes)
I need to wake up this morning I posted my reply to this in another thread and wrote about 2 treads at once. :-)
I hate extracting comb which has set. My bee friend who has OSR this year seems to spend hours scraping down solid frames to the mid rib when he has been...
Hi
The cling film surprisingly works really well. A bit sticky and messy but great.
I tried sucking it up with a syringe but it was too slow but this seems OK for jars only. I watched this go all over the floor as the cling film was lifted off the bucket.
Martin does similar but seems to...
Hi JCBRUM
Contact the suppler and give them chance to sort it out. Also tell them what you expect or want to happen. They may be great and deal with it in a professional manner. If they don't post the name of them here so we can all stop clear and not give them any new business.
This forum...
Morning
I have met Dave and he is very knowledgeable.
He does refuse to join these forums and will only communicate on the email forums. Which is a knowledgeable loss to all of us on here.
He has that certain persona that these interlingual types have. It can be annoying to some people...