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I have an odd query here. I bought a poly Langstroth in kit form. When assembling the frames. The side rails are handed with chamfer. Depending on how these are fitted makes the frames handed. To a point as long as they all are the same it dosent matter how I hand them. But I were to buy...

on the hedge cutting frount a lot of hedges are now cut on 3 yrs you just need a hell of a hedge trimmer to stick it, diffrent people do it diffrent ways tho some do the road sides annually and the rest 3 yeary. for wildlife the big issue here is they get cut flat topped so all the nesting...

Wouldn’t suprise me at all if it’s got a lot to do with various salts. In nature some animals will undertake incredible journeys on mass for salts. If there normal territory is devoid of them

I chucked a load of old dead rotting tree and braches that was no good for fire wood through the wood chipper just to get it out the way and use for weed suppression. Have noticed quite a few of the bees on it. there is a lot of fungi growing in and on it for the original idea is not really...

we've had a continuous colony in the garage roof for a known 10 yrs, they seem to be a very strong and healthy but there again the guy who's collected afew swarms from that colony says they dont handel varroa anydiffrent to any of the other swarms he's collected..... find out in he next year...

:) just worked for me, bought some clutter a national and one of those poly hives i hear so much about

theres plenty of ivy about they are on that and a lot of other things, ive no idea where they are going but theyve been incredibly busy

I was thinking an off it of AstroTurf There’s loads of that stuff kicking aboutn

very intresting and intrested. looks well desinged and made tho i dont know much about extractors. id be keen to take it on as a project, not needed an extractor yet but hopefully will next year.

they are great for pub crawl/wobbel tho

sounds to me its a mofifyed fly trap or working on the same princaple, two mesh grids with gaps between the wires big enough for bees to fly through and far enough apart so a bee cant touch or nearly touch both at the same time, but a larger insect like a hornet ends up touching both...

motors getting that hot is usally a tell tale of an issue , on singel phase induction motors it's normally jammed starter ( if present usally just big motors ) or tired run capacitor. normally if motors have got hot enough to smell hot on machenery i just swap them, as its a recent...

well people keep telling me I should plan things ect ect. So I do try. Tho I know full well no plan I have ever made has ever worked as it should... or worked out anything like expected

I’ve not read anything anywhere about lay lines tbh there the kind of thing I find hard to put any meaning to but I’ll point The gf at it tho as she get quite into that sort of thing at times. we are still trying to decide on numbers 4 seems to be a good Number to aim at with ideal to have a...

Few pictures of where we’ve got them at the moment

i'm going to sound cocky here but i recon the garage swarms will be easy to catch they allways seem to land in one of 3 places, a bush on garden wall, opposite the backdoor in a small tree or rose bush right by the back door and about 5 times a year my plan so far for catching them is to...

we are currently in out first season of bee keeping we have currenly 1 managed colony in a hive and some wild ones 1 in garage roof been there aproxamatly 10 yrs and seems very strong swarms several times a year and is very busy, and i think another 2 as i was getting headbumped by some...

this as caught me out 2:1 is metioned everywhere but rarely anything else really the ratio is is the 1:0.63 by weigth tho thats no so easy to rember but the ratio we should be useing then is really more like 2:1 1/4 ?

our bees and the wild ones here love the unmaintaned pond, on a hot day there will be lots of bees comeing and going landing on the pond weed to drink from the pond they seem to ignore all of the other water sources

brambels will burn quite easy but not as just a pile of brambels, stack a few old pallets or some wood that;ll burn well to make a good fire base then stack the brambels up ontop of it, bit of diesel and it'll burn well