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if you leave the keys in a new VW has similar tech if you stop turn off the engine and leave the keys in the lock then open the boot for more than 5 mins, it immobalises the engine. . i turned off the engine one day and the wife got out opened the boot to take something to a friend, yakyakyak...

do a bailey comb change and just stick a brood box of frames on the top and wait for the queen to go up, then put a Queen excluder under the new box for 21days. Then remove the old bottom box

With swarms on fronts of hives. I use a frame of comb to lift them off the front of the hive from underneath, the bees cling to the wax comb, then place that in a nuc box and and foundation frames just done one like that this week, a search today found a scrub emergency queen in the swarm, i...

we had a beekeeper who bees collected flora honey.....jobs worth trading standards found pollen from plants not grown in UK..so he now has a little label on his honey, may contain pollen form exotic plans used for display.

same here, i have been part of the hertfordshire trial area, local farmer spraying for pollen beetle...within 500yds of my hive....not a single email

thats BBKA insurance Not BDI, BDI is Disease insurance and some assocates opt out of BDI as not worth it, they still get BBKA £10,000,000 through the BBKA membership what insurance does the original OP mean BDI or BBKA product and public liabilty insurance

want a bet? i have seen 5 DN2+2 DN1 frame all without spacers in an untrained beginners five frame nuc box

The fields that surround our training apairy are under threat of being built on with high density housing....A wildlife trust did a full plant survey of the two large field in the hope of finding a plant habitat they could use against the development What did the survey show Perenial ryegrass a...

yes see link to abstract http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.3896/IBRA.1.48.1.14 it also clogs the open brood and a % of the brood dies

Bees will sting through most single layers of clothing so a beesuit over long trousers works but beesuit over shorts does not, they seem to be able to sting through jeans with ease BUT a sustained attack can still get through

i overheard an official saying the attendance was a record by 1;00pm, to me it seemed longer queues for everything than last year

how about london then 544 apiaies with 10km and i still get 80-10lb per hive

A Master Beekeeper who is taking the NDB exam this month told me that because i insulate my roofs winter and summer, that my crown boards would warp due to humidity and the bees would not be able to dry the nectar....he came back in july to see my hives with 6 or 7 supers on but still wasnt...

i remember a BBC reporter standing knee deep in water during flooding at tewkesbury, ,saying this road has been impassable to vehicles for days, Only to see a Landrover defender 110 appear behind him from the flood water with water draining out of the bottom of the defenders doors and the...

i bet there isnt one beekeeper on this forum that in his time has not fallen foulof one or more of the VMD or other APHA/DERFRA regualtions

Derek, i totally agree, if you remeber you have been to Barnet and the training hives are behind the stable club house that you gave your talk to us in the 8 training hive are NE facing ,shaded by the building and the trees suffered chalk brood every year without fail. the apiary manager re...

See attached, the pdf states that the statement they use that bees naturally used 4.9mm in the past is a load of popy cock and is based on a mathematical error

is it the same mechansim as sub sister worker policing of non sub sister laying worker eggs, or has that recently been disproved?

Bedfordshire folklaw i saw acted out on the death of a beekeeper when i was a child in the 1950's was similar to Buckinghamshire knock three times on each of the hives with the beekeepers hive tool and saying " your old master is dead, kiock three times again i am your new master now my little...

The donation is in the past was supposed to be show on the donator's tax return,and the donator's taxable income was reduced by the donation and therefore the donator's liable to pay was reduced by the 20% The HMRC then gave the 20% tax overpaid to the charity, so if the donator paid no UK...