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I am thinking of purchasing a remote hive monitoring system for a hive in our branch association apiary. The idea being that members can see the consumption of stores, and conversely when we have a big flow coming in. Also the timing and impact of the June gap, which was quite bad in our area...

I just saw the latest Merc electric Gwagon starts at £180K. The Mercedes G-Class Electric is spacious, great to drive around town and fantastic off road – but it is very expensive and can’t tow Seriously?

To be honest “Joe Public” have done a great job of alerting the NBU, I get the impression that most of the initial reports in Jersey and a lot of the ones in isolated outbreaks in the uk are JP, so clearly the message is getting out there. A lot of JP are clearly a lot better than you might think

If your association AH lead isn’t being proactive then perhaps you should step up. A few took the role on, not expecting to actually have to do anything…..

Well I thought they had printed up 2,000 AH posters for each association and were handing them out at the Spring Convention to the coordinators, so perhaps your coordinator has distributed them

There will be some crossover as a lot of printed material is AH, it might be a while till all this gets replaced. I’m not ensure that YLHAT rolls off the younger as well as AHAT, lol

Indeed. This is why we need to work with and support the BBKAs efforts in this area. They ran an Asian Hornet week, a couple of weeks ago which encouraged everyone to increase awareness and put out monitoring stations. The BBKA website has some great resources available to all. Letter templates...

Yes, we had a few made to encourage new members to enter the frame class in our branch association. Quite easy and cheap to make tbh

I have just been to one of my Abelo poly hives that I was asked to put in a garden in the middle of “nowhere”. It has a large meadow of around 1-2 acres that the owners are rewilding, but apart from that it is surrounded by large fields used for cattle grazing. A month or so ago it had 1 capped...

The queens are my own, I graft around 10 queens a year and replace as and when they need them, I have a mix of cedar nationals and poly 14x12’s. The trick is to have the bees in prime condition for when the forage is at its height, the problem is knowing when that will be next year!

Yes. We have been using a variety of methods to monitor numbers, sugar roll, CO2 and IPA with the varroa check pots. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/164862145592?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=LzGm_WwRQc6&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=OIp8ofjfSwO&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY All have...

It has been a bumper year this year, so much so that I haven’t finished extracting yet, I still have around 10-15 full supers still on the hives, to take off, and we haven’t even got to the ivy yet. I’ve not been able to get thymol into any hives, and probably won’t both this year, leaving them...

Small batch extraction is the way to go, producing “artisan” honey that changes with batches, rather than producing an homogenised honey. You can really taste the difference between the honeys. I would guess the darker one is from earlier, up here it was sycamore, and the paler one lime or...

I have recently bought one of these manual ones from a beekeeping supplier, but wish I had checked out eBay/amazon first as the same machine is - £100 cheaper. It isn’t honey specific and quite generic. I don’t think they are great for honey as supplied tbh, the exit pipe is far too narrow, I am...

Because it is unsolicited. This is the whole point of General Data Protection Regulations, it is to ensure that companies safeguard personal details, such as email addresses. In order for a “new” company to use my email address, or other personal data without my consent there would have to be a...

I got the email too, feels like a GDPR breach to me

We have a protocol. What’s the best way to share it with you?

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In response to the “what should I tell my 15 members to be doing at the next meeting” and what should hobby BK’s be doing in areas where there are no AH teams on the ground already - organise your members to establish a network of monitoring stations to do a brief time limited coordinated...

Why will your hives die? It’s unlikely at this stage that the numbers of AH nests in the UK will kill off the hives like they “might” be doing in France. Lots and lots of talk of mussles and electronic harps etc but surely the cheapest and best defence against AH at this stage is to have...