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Silver, Practical Beekeeping by Clive de Bruyn is a good reference book for your beekeeping library.

Experience is often measured in years, but... The same experience a thousand times or a thousand different experiences?

No more holes today, so hopefully they have moved out.

No, peanut butter is for the bank vole as they are vegetarian or more precisely for the trap for the bank vole. In the meantime a try a bit of Bramley apple nice and fragrant. Bank voles are between 13-19cm and they eat roots, gnaw bushes and your veg and have constructed an underground maze...

Two of my colonies with hive entrances covered in yellow pollen. Must investigate!

The problem is they eventually end up inside!

The colony was already in deep **** when it was treated, so OA trickle was probably the last nail in the coffin.

I can add ageism to that. You should have heard the students' mutterings and seen their faces when they walk in on the beekeepers that had invaded their cafeteria! I thought it quite funny considering it is going to happen to us all.

Not really, but I do acknowledge that some people are on the heather (which included me this year) or Himalayan Balsam.

Be careful with that, you cannot judge the size of a colony by watching at the entrance. I think even Stork acknowledge that.

Hi again, You were absolutely correct it was bank voles! Thought I had seen an immature rat from the distance as it was too large for a mouse. A maze of tunnels, but could not find the nest. Have to change the bait from cheese to apple. Get some peanut butter next weeks delivery. Meant to...

That reminds me of my dear dad and I when I was about 10 at my grandma's cottage. I told my dad that I could see lots of mice darting about on the snow in the light from the window. He did not believe me, but indulged me nevertheless by putting a trap on the doorstep to the boot room. Did...

I am on high alert here and don't want any parties in my loft! I don't mind the odd wood mouse which eats the dead bees. However, certainly don't want the other kinds around my garden. It is a lot of waterlogged areas in the Beeches, so maybe there is relocation going for dry nest sites. I...

Judging by mouse/rat activity around my house a bit premature to remove mouse guards. Hope you put them back! We can still have more "beasts from the east" or north. Found two holes. One in a bank outside my perimeter, first smoked then filled in. No activity noticed. Then one in very...

Luck does not come into it. Read up on winter preparations. September, is a bit late for varroa treatment as they are supposed to be the cohort producing the winter bees. What did you use? Bees that are diseased are kicked out of the hive and you will find them crawling away from the hive to...

If you take someone to court you need to educate the judge about how the business is carried out. The judge knows the law, but not necessarily how the business is run. Pasteurised and overheated honey is not the same neither is raw and pasteurised honey which is usually also fine filtered...

Sadly it my least favourite plant

Not me I certainly don't have the knowledge, the facilities or the amount of bees required, but that would be an interesting research project for someone.

Well, it may be too late then.

I better check the fondant through the crown board tmorrow. Inspect Sat or Sunday if warm enough. They keep saying 17°C - we will see.