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I hope i am correct but we are planting the following this year on a couple of scrap acres we have Sweet Clover blue lupins phacelia crimson clover red clover yellow trefoil borage vipers bugloss Which i am lead to believe are great for bees and are good at self seeding, hopefully loads of honey...

MA you shoot me down so easily but you are one whoms proves Darwin is not always correct as you are still here. Why should people get stung regularly? You ask if people will get electric shocks from the netting regularly well yes if they hold it constantly and it will do them damage but if they...

I agree with Moggs. Controlled enviroment? How strange is that? I sell electric netting for poultry - should people test wether it is on with their hands of course not I should tell them how to test it and use it safely - or should i shock them in a safe enviroment? I dont eat off of a knife...

Ok I am still a new beekeeper but is getting stung madness?? Should we not be telling them how to protect themselves better. Why do you have to get stung, if well protected you should be fine. My advice is to enjoy bees dont find if you are allergic just dress well and PROTECT yourself. I...

Hi I actually fenced of my bees from the chickens and animals to ensure there were no issues and i also would not recommend putting them with no escape for the chooks. Overall they do get on but if bees do get grumpy chickens not going to come out on top.

I was away for 3 weeks and yes I agree swarming was my main issue :) but heho learnt my lesson and am more confident for next year. Listened to his comments of course but an hour and a half snapshot is not really enough. Had a long chat with a forum member on the phone last night whom really...

I think it is important to get the labelling correct but lets give a little grace here I live in a world where laws are too confusing for all. Sometimes judgements here are harsh, lets just chill a little explain their error and give them time to correct it - aids us all in the long run :)

Confused - some people are complaining that someone sells honey at £16 a lb so jump on labelling etc but overall it seems most people lose money hand over fist in this hobby? On this basis should not the price be reviewed? Come on people if you have a quality product why under price it? Wether...

Hi, sorry no gardens or parks within a couple of miles looked on google earth and was shocked, but i personally have maybe 2km of hedgerow and there is plenty of that. I am sure the girls will be fine just will insulate them in the winter and give them an inflatable life raft for our summers but...

Heavy rainfall followed by heavy rainfall here, have to pop over to England to keep my tan topped up lol mind you we never have to supply drinking water for our bees here, one less job :)......

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Hi yes, i am sure i will be ok, i think whilst i was away i missed some swarms and casts plus i got 2 supers of honey as i said :) I am moving to nationals 14x12 brood boxes to replace the beehaus's. Looking at information i found I am planting many different flowers including Sweet, red, white...

oopppss sorry, i have 2 of my swarms caught with queens which i am uniting with 2 queenless hives then i have one still queenless and 1 with a possibly dodgy laying queen but she has not been laying long so i will give her 2 weeks. Ideally i only want 3 colonies until i have much more experience...

Hi we are near llandrindod wells. We are uniting to strengthen but I hope to keep 3 hives I understand now that our 2 beehaus just are not viable for this area but we have replacements arriving this week. I also understand about swarming but I had to go away for July and with 7 weeks of rain...

Hi all, had the bee inspector round today and overall the bees are healthy but colonies are weaker than would like and as all swarmed when I was away they are queenless apart from one that lays mixed drone and workers in worker cells? (she is newly mated though) I did requeen a hive but queen...

I use liquid smoke and works well.

Sorry copy and past did not work,so makes no sence - "law of Beekeeping No1 = you keep bees, you will get stung!" Dont like that law, lets go to next one.

Can I please go straight to law 2 :)

Gave my wife our first ever own honey - seems that i will be on for a nice steak now. thanks bees :)

From reading about this yesterday, should you spray the frames with a bit of syrup to get the bees to come up?