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everyone needd to stop blaming just farmers .. golf courses, grounds maintenance companies, domestic users, alotments, country house hotels , pest control companies, garden centres, ebay and amazon, homebase .. are all selling and/or using pesticides, some of which farmers are banned from using...

... we also send a date and time stamped pictue of the swarm with the notification ... and, when a swarm colloector nominates to collect it, on the app .. no one else can .. and the local swarm organiser has access to a map showing who is collecting what swarms .. and what was the outcome .. any...

Mass colony wipe out in New Zealand https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/100789676/thousands-of-bees-dying-in-murchison-from-suspected-poisoning

This article may be of interest to some: http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/15894489.Thousands_of_bees_worth___600_stolen_from___39_gutted__39__Bradford_beekeeper/

Hi .. Yes I am in Sales and marketing as well .. Hi .. You can see on the web site how simple the spray alert is, the swarm notification is the same, Swarm co-coordinators get a real time status on the progress of any notified swarm straight to their computer or tablet … and no we don’t...

Hi .. virtuall all the features are available on your computer or tablet, using the same log in details, andyou can add more information about your hives .. i will get Louis to put an example up on the web site.

You have hit the nail right on the head. As beekeepers we need to be better organised, demonstrate that we are operating in the 21st century, promote the fact that 85% of all pollinating services we provide are free .. and we need the pesticide users to help us maintain that service. If we...

Hi .. we have been members since it started, and the answer is no ... I think we have had 4 at the beginning of the year but it dried up, however we do have pictures of two separate farmers spraying 48 hours before within 2k. Hey it may all be a coincidence but we need to know before it starts...

hi .. thanks for your observations and taking the time to comment. The medium-term goals are listed on the site. For those people who don't use a smart phone the same functions are available on a computer or tablet. The USP of what we are providing is "real time information" If I get an...

Hi I wasn't expecting such a reaction .. i am sure all coments are very relevant to eveyone's local area .. in 2016 we are aware of 46 hive losses in our area, two very experienced bee keepers did a report on it. 80% of the land round us is sprayed .. and when you see a pile of dead bees...

Hi thanks 2016 we managed 140 lb honey, 2017 we eliminated wax moth and dramaticslly reduced varroa and produced 850lb but lost 7 big colonies overnight. The CEH in Wallingford lost all 10 of their hives in 2016/17 so it looks like we are in a hot spot for problems. We just need to find out...

Hi Exactly right. the way the system works is this. 1) Anyone with the app can create a swarm notification. This could be a farmer, pest control company, allotment holder, grounds maintenance company .. anyone who comes across a swarm. 2) Anyone local registered on the system as a swarm...

I don't post often but i do frequently look through the posts .. my conclusion is this site has a few of self styled experts who use it to "slag off" or be "abusive about" things they know little about .. maybe its an ego thing. Thanks to Eric for at least researching what we are trying to...

Perhaps it is but how do i get facts and not just opinions? it seems to me we need to find out exactly what is going on.

After 3 1/2 months waiting on the bee units they could not tell us.

Hi, i wish .. two were bought in queens just found another hive wiped out today. Virtuall no foragers There are tractors spraying everywhere round here this week. 1st time we sent in Samples 3rd week in April to the Bee unit, got a reply mid August .. could not find a reason. Not suprising...

Here are some facts about Bee Connected researched from the internet, FERA, academic researchers and news articles. it is funded by Bayer, run by the crop association .. it only notifies farming insecticide use which is 7% of everything they are spraying. It is voluntary and free. It does not...

Yes The bellows fabric will give up after two or three years but i just replaced mine with a bit of 1.5mm leather i got off ebay for £4 . The stainless will l:iagree:ast OK.

Where is all this junk, called bee keeping equipment, we are being supplied coming from? Just took delivery of some castellated spacers from Wynn Jones and they were not much thicker than bacofoil. I put my calipers on some in a box i repared last year and those were .86mm thick. These just...

Hi I am clearly late on this one but I have had a bad year. I lost one hive over winter with frames of honey still in it but it was got at by wasps late last year and the other refused to be fed and i ended up pouring syrup on the frames last week as they were going to starve. I seem to have...