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From The EKE January 2012

Many thanks for that, very sensible. Just wanted to make sure that it would keep OK. Andy

End of the season update To square the circle. This particulrar hive has come throught the season really well pruducing five supers of honey, one nucleus and no swarms. However, to go back to the first photograph. After extraction I place the supers back on the hive. They refilled them with...

The Beeman by Laurie Krebs and Valeri Cis Published by barefoot books Starting with grandpas special beeman outfit, this lifts the lid on the hive and makes his grandson realise why bees are so important - a book to make childrens minds and mouths water. Excellent book thoroughly enjoyed by...

Just shows how things have changed. Good point about the cacti but . . . . The bees were sited at the back of the greenhouse for the seventeen years that I was at the school (1973 - 1990). The cacti helped to stop them getting too near the glass. No one injured in any way by either bees...

I kept bees in a secondary school (5/6 hives) for seventeen years without any problems in the 70' & 80's. However, these days there is so much more to worry about outside the apiary. I kept the bees at the back of the school greenhouse so that the students could observe without having to put...

The Rural Studies Advisor for Devon produced a educational Safety code for bees around 1976. Also "Apiculture for Schools" by Ken Stevens published in 1977 may be useful. I also wrote and Article for the Derbyshire Rural Studies jouranal in 1977 on Bees in School. All probably rather out of...

Thank you for your understanding Swarm. In the past I did not worry as much about the bees in school as I do now about the bees in my garden. Even though they are sited well away form neighbours and have miles of countryside forward of them. If handled correctly bees are just so interesting...

:iagree::iagree::iagree: At last some reasoned and sensible points of view. With regard to keeping bees in your garden this forum has really scared me to death at times, in amongst all the excellent advice given on all other aspects of beekeeping. I kept bees in a secondary school safely for...

Many thanks - Very useful link. The problem is the hive in question is near to a railway track were, I am uable to venture in pursuit of nests!

Had a bit of a problem with wasps in the single hive that is starting up my out Apiary - just 300 yards away from my house. The four hives in my garden do not seem to have a serious wasp problem. The hive in the out apiary was relentlessly being attacked by wasps, with the odd one or two...

If the queen does not lay in the super (take it off at right time she won't) then it is OK to use it again.[I][/I] If treating for Varroa surely it would not be wise to re-use for producing honey for human consumption? (Unless put on after treatment).

It most certainly has been a strange year! Just asking for a little bit of advice please. All is very well with my all my colonies but I have one worry: Is it possible to overwinter a prolific second year Buckfast colony on a single National Brood box only? All my hives have now been treated...

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Many thanks for the responses, bin liners seem to be OK then. Just wanted to use them in the short term while I'm short of crown boards and queen excluders. That should change soon! You have to be careful about the bags ripping, however. Will probably return to the stacking method for the winter.

In the past I have stored my supers in my shed with newspaper/crownboards/Queen Excluders between. I am interested in the technique of using bin liners instead as discussed in other threads. However, my concern is that if you do this it cuts down on the circulation of air. This may lead to the...

:iagree: I have Buckfasts and some Buckfast F1's all very gentle so far over two years. We will have to wait and see what the F2's are like. I've heard very varying reports on these pages!

Usually a couple or so days as long as the bees have not propalised them up. I normally clear no more thet two supers at a time - depends how many bees are there. Make sure that they have plenty of space below to collapse into - you made need to put a super below the clearer board.

Place the super back on the hive that they came from if possible to avoid the risk of spreading disease. Place above the crown board, then the bees will dry them off and store the remaining honey for winter below. Make sure that the supers are bee tight to prevent robbing.

Probably a Wood Wasp Greater Hornail Sirex gigas Ovipositor that you can see is used as an auger to bore holes in tree to lay eggs. Originally imported in foreign timber.