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  1. Skinfaxi

    Queen cage - varroa management

    I have started useing the cages last year as my integrated pest management. Bought more for this season. Seemed to work well. Just need to work out when exactly is the best time to start. Put them in end july last year. I quess like with anything you have to look at your situation in regard to...
  2. Skinfaxi

    Mulching the garden

    I got a stihl viking gb460. It works well up to 7cm hardwood branches. It is good for rose clippings and soft perenniels
  3. Skinfaxi

    BeeTradex

    Just look at all the chilli events going on. I am a chilli head and the chilli events are really fun and well attended. Why not honey. Dont wait for the in groups to move as the status quo suits them. Paradigm shift it. . Must say uk agriculture is boring and sad. Just the bigs milking land...
  4. Skinfaxi

    Cleaning frames

    Brilliant.
  5. Skinfaxi

    "Survivor bees" found in Blenheim Forest

    So just say they found the native black bee some place, then what? Will the forces shake all our non black bees out. I am not against black bees. I have never farmed with any, so have no experience with them. Will peaple start to breed with them? Is that then going away from natural selection...
  6. Skinfaxi

    "Survivor bees" found in Blenheim Forest

    Once lived a small special blessed by Jupiter from ancient times, colonies of bees. They lived in there own special woodland. They made the wasps and hornats attack the common bees, outside the special blessed by the jupiter woods. They made the wasps raid the honey, jelly, wax and young nurse...
  7. Skinfaxi

    "Survivor bees" found in Blenheim Forest

    No they are posh bees and they dont hang out with those bees over the wall
  8. Skinfaxi

    "Survivor bees" found in Blenheim Forest

    Funny how peaple try to nationalise wildlife.. nature does not care about stupid humans and the corporate government
  9. Skinfaxi

    Honey price

    As with other produce the bigs outprice the smalls. They sit next to the printing press and can outprice anyone in the real economy.But selling counterfit goods legally on such a massive scale just makes you question all the other fraud going on.
  10. Skinfaxi

    Honey price

    Some value only the price and not its value
  11. Skinfaxi

    Honey price

    Also remember production prices are going up, high inflation and more unknown challenges ahead.
  12. Skinfaxi

    Honey price

    The problem you have is amatures and farmers selling the same product. One needs to pay the bills the amature most likely well off anyway. Price discovery is found in supply and demand Like the bank of england printing pounds backed by nothing becoming worth less.
  13. Skinfaxi

    Moron of the day ....

    I used to spray highly toxic products in massive glasshouses and outdoors with a powered knapsack 2000 to 3000l everyday PA9. Peaple dont realise that if something kills insects etc, then it will surely harm a human. Does not matter how super you are. The problem is that pesticides are...
  14. Skinfaxi

    Moron of the day ....

    Wonder how much he got over himself and his family in the process.
  15. Skinfaxi

    Is it time to put the brakes on the boom in beekeeping?

    Bayer started with crop spraying in the late 1800. The grape farmers wanted to keep peaple from eating the grapes. The farmers started to spray chalk to keep the peaple away. They then noticed reduced certain pests. Since then it has expended. In the uk we spray nerve agents to kill resistant...
  16. Skinfaxi

    Failed virgin,when to add laying queen

    I had a swarm on the hive about three weeks ago. They are in a nuc but the virgin is really small almost the size of a worker. The full hive colony had one small QC in it. So not sure if thats the swarm from the hive. I saw them and nuced them as its been really raining a lot at the time. The...
  17. Skinfaxi

    Failed virgin,when to add laying queen

    Hello I have colony that has been queenless about 6 weeks. It had a small hatched QC but not sure if the virgin is alive.The colony has the queenless humm. Can i unite this colony with a queen right nuc. Or could the virgin kill the laying queen from the nuc, if shes alive?
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