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:winner1st: Beagle, the vast majority of beekeepers have been there and done just that! I keep a hat with a veil in the glovebox of the Rover for just that kind of event. Your bees are probably not particularly vicious or defensive, neither are mine. Now wasps and those tree bumbles are always...

I do not think he even wore a cycle helmet! I am of the opinion that angree bees are as much to do with the bees keeper than as much of anything else. Saying that did meet some very angry wasps in the local cemetery last year, the vicar said he thought they were about to swarm in dead earnest!

Becoming a vegetarian and practicing Zen may be the way to go? He was wearing cycle clips... and did however arrive on his push bike, the rest of us were fully kitted out with full beesuits over long wooly undersuits and big thick beekeeping gloves and best wellies. Why keep aggressive bees...

Experience of watching a beekeeper wearing but a hat and veil and with shirt sleeves rolled up, bare armed and ungloved hands, confidently handling a so called agressive colony of bees on a warm summers day, with hardly any smoke in the local training apiary... made me realise that the fully...

Been converting mine to underfloor entrances in readiness for the Asian Hornet's invasion! Wish there was something we could manufacture to deal with this small hives beetle. I can only foresee APHA bringing in similar find and destroy protocols for beekeepers similar used to control of AFB and...

Thankxxs Looked at the Cuprinol shades as the boxes would look pretty if painted and noticed that a lot of English beekeepers paint their boxes. Where can I buy a branding iron to mark my boxes and other equipment as I believe theft is a problem here?

Should Western Red Cedar Brood Boxes for National Hives need to be be painted? If so what with?

Should Western Red Cedar Brood Boxes for National Hives need to be be painted? If so what with?