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Exactly. Farmers round here have all sorts of breeds, but they are separated by hedges and barbed wire. When a bull escapes bad things can happen, a small Dexter cow cannot give birth to calf fathered by a large breed bull (I'll spare the forum the gory details). I live in a part of the...

Thanks that's helpful to know. I saw they were looking for an admin a few months ago. I'm not sure why there are people on here that take every opportunity to have a pop at the bbka. Pretty sad if you ask me. The new magazine looks great.

Returning to bbka matters. Has anybody tried registering on the bbkaforum recently? It's been a few days and I still haven't received my activation email. Is this normal or has somebody decided I'm a spam bot?

Presumably the main pieces were cut in the far east or wherever and then it was stapled together and the handles screwed on in the UK.

The brood frame is langstroth brood (deep) depth, the super is 2/3 (medium) langstroth depth. So just buy langstroth frames and shorten them. Smith frame top bars are too long. I'm not against using non standard kit (and I think more people should), but those dimensions don't make a lot of...

I presumed these sort of bots were used to generate traffic to the forum? It is quite obvious a bot revived the "Swarm catching devices and extendable poles" thread generating two pages of content and associated ad revenue. I see no other point to it. I am 75% sure MeAndMyBees is a BIBBA...

This forum is full of robots posting gibberish at the moment.

My foot has been hurting today although I hadn't made the connection. I'm grateful to hear that I'm not the only one to do the upside down thing!

Yesterday morning I rescued an apidea from the brink of starvation. Yesterday afternoon I had a dead queen outside a 5 over 5 nuc/hive. Today I combined the two. The nuc had loads of stores and no brood, presumably been like that for a while. This has been a really busy hive, so quite a...

I have done to the one beekeeper I know quite well. The offer was declined. The other beekeepers I don't know. It seems a bit of an awkward opening conversation "hello, you know those bees that you've probably spent hundreds of pounds on, would you mind killing the queen for me and replacing...

I want them to stop keeping non AMM, so yes. It might not be them, it could be one of the two other beekeepers in the village. The bees around my bait box were huge yellow things, more like a wasp. Returning to the title of this thread, the two other beekeepers have this year complained about...

I've only seen the trailer. The Guardian review - "There’s a grubby, late-night appeal to his dialled-up trash aesthetic and The Beekeeper mostly works because of it". Sounds about right. If it was on the tele I'd probably stay up to watch it.

Not really. Even if AMM queens ignoring non-AMM drones was true (which I don't think it reliably is), the problem is orange queens are less picky with who they mate with. So they will mate with the local AMM drones and after a few generations the orange queen resembles something that is more...

I can now add a bit more info. One of my winter projects is to set up a simple static (old school like dave-cushman.net) website. Because it is static there are quite a few cheap if not free options. If anybody wants to do similar, the following will give you a secure https address: If you...

@oxnatbees Have you seen this?

Thanks for an interesting post, the morality of beekeeping is something I struggle with at times, so I'll be mulling over your quote for a bit.

I get a warning: "The connection to www.dave-cushman.net is not secure You are seeing this warning because this site does not support HTTPS." But then I have an option to continue to the site anyway. It maybe you have a chrome setting enabled that blocks non HTTPS sites entirely. If Roger is...

I'm not sure how literally we can take those diagrams, the scale of the hive stand seems way off, but going by them the super and roof design of the Young hive is different to the typical Warsaw hive. In the Warsaw the cavity for the super box only comes about half way up the box. This cavity...

Everything you ever wanted to know about Eastern European beehives Kategoria:Konstrukcje uli – ApisWiki.PL Google translate does a pretty good job if you use Chrome.

Thanks for posting about this. Love the photos! According to a polish beekeeping wiki that I use a lot the Young hive was "a demountable frame hive introduced in 1890 by I. Young, replacing the Dzierżon slab hives previously popular in Norway . Frame based on German solutions, standing...