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Hi sneaky zee why don't you try to find a local beekeeping association, they often help with mentors and you could get hands on experience either at the BKA apiary or perhaps a local beek (next year )

looks like fun .I would quite fancy having a go one day.......maybe

Netlon

Hi Simon and welcome, the best thing is to try and find your own apiary site, just ask around it shouldn,t be to hard to find someone .

:nono: B4100 :thanks:

well you are gonna ave e ball ere, congrats on ure new full time job :judge::icon_204-2::icon_204-2::icon_204-2:

:welcome::welcome::welcome: Hi Arwenevenstar, welcome to the forum. there is a couple of members of the stratford on avon BKA in and around banbury and even some as far as brackley!!!! also the shipston beeks may not be too far from you, check out there web sites.

:iagree: exactly.

Stratford on avon and district beekeepers association intoduction to beekeeping course starting 14th feb, it consists of 5 evenings and 2 afternoons . £45

with a few 100 acres of that i would give up the bee's and concentrate on the birds !!!!

:iagree: that would be my first choice. not worthy not worthy

Hi Denise

Tilia platyphyllos' " europaea, " maximowicziana, " euchlora, " tomentosa, " orbicularis, " petiolaris. a couple have a stupefying effect on bee's but are still supposed to be worthwhile. for the critics i have no experience of how good they are.

yes but none of those are the scenario that i am describing.

i dont know thats why i am asking, as it seems to me that if the bee's move up like others suggest then they will die.

surely if there is a block of fondant on QE or direct on brood frames, and the bee's move up into the super beeing used as an eke then they would be isolated from there food and starve. so the queen being left behind woudn't make any difference ??

origanally it was a mickey take of a beekeeping article on countryfile with skep hives protected by a mix incorporating cow muck......... although i do actually have a few tonnes of muck available...

ARNIA they may not have minituarised it but its totally handsfree.

I sell the straw as well so i don't use products with known problems.

quick wash in the dishwasher works great. :icon_204-2: