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Hi Irish guy. You live in a rural, windswept part of Ireland, (MAYO)where your spring is late and you don’t have too many days without rain of what we would call summer, before the season is all over. If you are lucky then your yield will be about 30lb per hive. Now if you were living down in...

In your first post you said you wanted start off with Irish bees. I am afraid that if you want package bees then it is going to be imports, and that is going to be double trouble when then mate with the local Irish. Your bees will become so Aggressive they will just about becapable of bursting...

Dublin,just outside the phoenix park. Are you a member of the westport beekeepers. http://www.wbkc.info/ I am going down to them on the 2nd of. april

Please don't, stick with the national hive that you have chosen. It is probably the best suited for the native bees that you are going to put in them. In a few years, after you have learned your craft, you can build yourself a top bar hive out of curiosity. You will get little honey out of them...

There are a bit on the dear side, but My wife and kids all chipped in and bought them for me. Nice santa.bee-smillie

New beekeeping boots. I got a pair of leather wellies made by hunter. Hopefully my feet wont sweat in them, like the ordinary wellies. My old pair of boots are now up for sale, or i could do part exchange on some quality beekeeping equiptment.

Hap Bee Christmas fellow beekeepers and to all those buzzing in your life. I hope you are all clustered up tight with your brood this Christmas, you are consuming lots of stores, and the nectar is flowing freely. Here’s to a Un-bee-liveable bumper new year and may all you supers be full ones...

Any deer on it. I also believe that you now have wild boar in your county as well.

Sounds like we are going to have some fun weekends ahead. I catch im, and you can cook im.

i use an electric nailer and put about 4 to 5 hundred frames together each year. I nice and neat and you dont have the bulky compresser to store. i got about 3 years out of it before i had to replace it.

Thanks. Not a chance of me been let store oxalic acid, beside the turkey in the fridge.

I finished treating all my hives today, and i have some left that i am giving to other beekeepers to use. How long is the shelf life for oxalic acid after it is made up.

Is it just the 'O' ring on the plunger, or is there another one that needs replacing. Thanks

You are going to need a veterinary certificate for each colony of bees. Best advice is to leave them there and let him sell them locally.

I am going to do my treatment over the next few day and am just checking my equipment. I use an animal dozer with a back pack that automatically refills to the pre-set amount. I can't get it to refill unless I put my finger over the end of the outlet after I had pressed the trigger. This is...

This a poly hive sitting on the roof of my shed in a my suburban back garden. Bees were actively flying and bringing in pollen since about 10 am. Temp was 9 degrees Celsius but rising and according to temperatures on the internet, my bees should be in deep winter cluster.

thats just mine to do.I also do another 3 beekeepers apairys as well. I will then seal it up in a airtight container and it will last for years.

I bought 5 kg and it should keep me going for a couple of years. 85 stocks to treat next week when it arrives.

good prices here for oxalic acid dihydrate http://mistralni.co.uk/products/oxalic-acid-dihydrate