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I am intrigued about the 'costume'...? What 'should' we have worn?

Pargyle - it's great to have a critical audience! All cm,ents much appreciated. i absolutely hate how manuka honey is marketed and people talk about eating a spoonful a day etc. I'm talking to a few people about getting this story on a wider platform...watch this space

Rose Cooper and others have tested many honeys from around the world including non-Apis species. Manuka is the king of anti-bac and other action. The data are out there and hard to dispute. By the way, many don't realise but increasingly many science journals are available via www.scholar.google.com

At the risk of opening a can of worms...what's the problem with manuka honey? The latest clinical research continues to show its effectiveness. It's used in wound care clinics. Just don't eat it for health - you'll rot your teeth, get fat and be eating a not-very-nice honey - but the wound care...

I have a great photo of a Mexican beekeeper working with africanised bees wearing shorts and a t shirt and nothing else. He may have sandals I can't remember...if you've seen my stingless bee talk then you'll have seen it. His attitude was that if you're careful they are fine, and if he's...

Itma - couldn't agree more on all points...sadly I didn't get to dictate content to that extent. Otherwise I can assure you that there would have been a whole lot more science in there! As for the obs hive - very simple. We arsed about with them after a very cold weekend back at the end of...

May have double posted..apologies if so Anyway, Chris took one on the nose but apparently I can't post a link because I've not posted enough... So google 'Packham stung on nose' By the way he took it in a much more stoic fashion than most, Annoyed about the N rather than sun on graphic...

You may be underestimating the problems associated with filming...

The programmes were filmed in mid and late June...they are still being edited in fact

I can tell you that the Hive Alive series has literally just finished filming - and I say that as one of the presenters... It should go out across two weeks on BBC2 in mid July but transmission dates are only ever decided 2 weeks in advance. And in response to the beekeeper-centric comments on...

Hi All. Following on from BBC Radio 4 doc On the Trail of the American Honeybee (aired in March, see earlier threads), BBC World Service is airing two more docs with the same name over the next two week that I present as part of their Discovery strand. These are made from the interviews I got in...

Agreed (with Itma) but in the USA making up a nuc is referred to as nuking...hence using the term in the programme. Also, whilst making up a nuc is standard enough, doing so with 3 or 4 hives is a very different prospect to dealing with tens of thousands, and the techniques and scale of these...

...also, nucing would be pronounced 'nusing' by most non beekeepers!

Glad you enjoyed the programme. By the way, nuking is not a misspelling and 'the nuking machine' is not journalistic excess. Nuking, not nucing, is the spelling most commonly used in the USA. 'Nuking machine' is a direct quotation from John Miller himself in the the book The Beekeeper's Lament...