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About getting stung - if you think you may be allergic, do it sooner rather than later to check! Always wear a double thickness under your suit -jacket, such as a shirt and light trousers, tuck trousers in soxs, wear wellies, put a baseball cap under the head gear to keep the net away from your...

They are certainly not vanishing in my garden which has been completely pesitcide/poison free for the last twenty years, I have counted four different species (don't quote me on that, would have to look it all up!) I love watching some of them disappear into holes in the lawn/wildlife area! Louise

I have been studying bees (bumble and honey) on forage since starting beekeeping nearly three years ago and my extensive reading (some scientific papers) and personal observations suggest that bumbles forage on different plants from honeybees which suggests that there is no competition. Of...

I have my own personal slave - but he isn't wearing a loin clothe in case I get too excited :drool5:

I have been on a lowering cholesterol diet for two years and it hasn't worked because I couldn't take statins. So not very impressed with any dietary things that say it does the job - but still drink soya and have the sterol marg etc. I am now on statins again - different ones, there are a few...

Thanks for the messages everyone! It's all a bit of a shock as I don't smoke, don't drink, keep fit in the gym, swim and do yoga, so what did I do wrong? Actually its the high cholesterol in the genes and definitely not too much S,D R&R (if only!) L

Thanks - translation for last please ! ha!

I had a heart attack Last Friday night - have just come out of the cardiac care unit -good job I didn't go to the conference but hope those who did had a good time. Jonathan the chair of our association came over to inspect my hives this morning and is coming again nexxt week as I cannot do...

I have always been lead to believe that in the wild bees built from the top down and I have done the same on my double brood. Louise

Now I don't mean to bragg (even though you live in a beautiful part of the north of this wonderful island) but it has been in the low 20s C for a couple of days here. The bees have been busy from early morn til the sun has gone done. Checked both hives today because I have heard of swarms...

Perhaps Admin could start one using everything on this site and more from us! I started taking Beekeeping Quarterly recently, it seems much more scientific but is very international, so I am still searching for one that suits me - I like to read about the scientific research on bees which is...

if you did it next weekend the new queen mates around the 29th April, you could then call your queen Kate but normally i prefer to let the bees decide themselves Nice one! ha!:patriot: sorry wrong flag!

Sorry have now seen the costings. The one aspect of this hive that has concerned me is the fact that the debris will collect in the bottom - even if you have a mesh floor, there will still be dead bees etc collecting on the top of this - so what do you do to clear it and prevent infection...

I am incredibly impressed.............................. with the dog!!!! Only joshing ya! No it all looks really, really good - have you costed it all up and compared with buying one? Louise

For those of you who get both of these I presume you noticed that there was a lot of information/articles the same in both which seems somewhat daft. :confused: Louise

## The answer to that Erica is that we really don't know like so many things about the bees! Louise

Good point Ben thanks - I am not lacking in intelligence or the ability to think independently as my doctorate shows but I worry, worry, worry! Am I doing something that will hurt the bees or not. I often tell people that the honey is a bonus for me because the taking care of them and...

Yes he told me to find the queen and mark asap! But I am now thinking otherwise. Apart from anything else I only have a blue marker which is last years - I have also been thinking that blue isn't a good colour to mark queens because it is the only colour that bees truly see (according to Tautz...

Harsh words, yes I am aware that I know little and only in my third year of beekeeping! The chairman of the group with 25 years of experience told me to do this because we are going to split my two colonies which are going strong and make a third. I presume that we need to know where the queen...

I am probably going to split off some of the two colonies I have to make a third when the time is right (with the help of the chairman of the group). He told me to try and mark my queen so we know if she stays or goes! I really hate all these snide comments it is totally unnecessary...