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hey has anyone bought one of these, thinking of buying one. http://www.mannlake.co.uk/beekeeping-supplies/product/HH-231.html Darren

Ice always works for me when i get stung on the face, if that fails a small spoonful of cement to harden up!! ;o)

If it was me i would squash the current queen, pick what you think is the best looking queen cell(mark the frame), knock the rest out and go back in 4/5 days and knock any others they have built out and then leave alone till after your holidays. Darren

About a month ago now my friend had a hive on double brood that hadn't been checked for a good 2/3 weeks due to the weather, he had a swarm come out of it on a friday which he caught, the very next day he was there when a virgin queen came back to the same hive from her mating flight. Darren

yea we have a dozen of the little blighters now, if you are ever up this way call up, we are on the rostrevor side of kilkeel along the mountains.

they look too long for blood worms and don't look like the orange ribbon either but on looking up these i have came across the sludge worm which i think they are, thanks Darren

About six weeks ago i filled a bucket with seaweed nettles and some water with the idea of using the end result on my flowers and garden, in the past few weeks i have noticed these worms in it, they seem to only come to the surface at night. Have anybody any idea what they are??

the diameter is 600 and its 610 deep.

I recently bought a lyson 20 frame radial extractor from abelo and only got round to given it a wash out today, when the bottom of the extractor fills above a certain level of around 2/3 inches the water runs out the bottom of it around the center and down onto the belt that turns from the...

A sore backs a sore thing but a sore thing isn't always a sore back!

i got this made up for myself and it works a treat. Darren

I had rats in the ditch under my bird feeders and two weeks ago i started putting the tomcat blocks down the holes, i was stuffing 3-4 blocks down every hole and used a half a bucket of the stuff, they were cleaning it all every night till the six night when they stopped eating it and started...

I have shot many many foxes with my .17hmr and lots were around the 150yards mark, at that distance a head or chest shot has the same result with them all dropping on the spot. With the fields that small around here and the ditches and hedges high its often hard to get a safe shot any further...

We got four call ducks last autumn and lost the first one to a fox three weeks ago at the edge of dark. I hammered a post into the field 80 yards behind my house and tied a rabbit to it, from the rabbit i have fishing braid running into the house tied to a battery in a clock, when the fox comes...

thank you very much, Darren

it is still bubbling but at a slow rate and yes i used a full orange and quartered it.here is a photo, i will rack it during tomorrow and check its Specific gravity to see how it is going. Darren

hey all i made mead with heather honey and some orange in it in oct, it is now getting very clear but the bottom third the demijohn is pure sludge, do i rack into a new demijohn and leave a third of the jar out, can it be topped up or whats the deal here, do i just loss some in the racking...

If some are complete beginners what about even showing them how to make up frames, inserting wax etc and how to build a flat pack hive? also how to light and keep a smoker alight,best smoker fuel and how to remove a sting and so on. Darren.

i wonder was this the same women?? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newsvideo/viral-video/11319365/Watch-Woman-drives-round-in-circles-in-petrol-pump-fail.html

I have been asked now by a lot of people about selling them pollen, is there many on here that do this, i might buy a dryer for the job next year, once dried does it keep for long? Thanks Darren