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Oops! I'll chalk that one up to experience. :D Move along, nothing to see here... move along.

The local tube station has a plastic owl at the end of the platform. I've not seen a single pigeon there in the entire time I've lived here! You need to report Asian Hornet sightings to the Non Native Species Secretariat (NNSS) [email protected]

"Make it someone else's problem as soon as possible" was pretty much the cornerstone of the training! If I had reason to suspect either heart attack or systemic anaphylactic reaction then I would be straight onto an ambulance!

Thanks, your knowledge definitely trumps mine!

Thanks. I'd read similar things about the larger frames having warping issues that the medium frames didn't. Good to hear of your experiences. Hmm, maybe a bad quality control issue there. Certainly worth being vigilant about if I try plastic. Were they the medium (3/4) Langstroth? What brand...

For what it's worth, I've just got my first aid at work certificate (the 3-dayer) and the tutors made it clear that if someone has been prescribed an epi-pen then injecting them with it won't do them any harm. However... this wasn't in the context of a heart attack and I'm not claiming any sort...

Thanks. That's really helpful. I'm thinking about the all medium lang poly hive from MB and am weighing up all plastic frames. It's good to hear some of the cited advantages being confirmed by a user. Any issue with weird brace comb? Have you had to clean the wax off any of the frames yet or...

Ahh, ok, perhaps they've had more than one brand in then. This might confuse the issue. I'd be intereted to hear of any other brands people have got on well with (especially in 3/4 Langstroth)

Sounds fairly promising. The general trend seems to be that the pre-coated ones (duragilt?) had very poor success rates. I've not seen enough info on user-coated ones to make a judgement.

Thanks. I've seen the video instructions for coating the frames. I just wanted to be sure that anyone replying had done that, or if not then what they had done differently. It looks very straightforward and MB advised me that about 10 sheets of foundation would coat 40 medium plastic frames.

Apologies if this has been covered in depth already. The search function is broken (is it just me?) and I manually searched the first 10 pages of this area of the forum with no joy. I'm very new to the hobby and don't have my own bees yet. In the mean time I'm researching what gear I would like...

Hmm, I work in Yalding occasionally. Must check this out in future. Thanks for the info.

Incidentally. There's a reasonable bat identification app for Android on Google Play called "BatLib" (can't link, not enough posts to my name yet). Probably more useful if you have access to a bat detector but still of passing interest if bats float your boat.

Top tip about hydrocortizone cream, thanks.

Fair point! The link I wanted to post (which alldigging kindly posted) seems to be the most complete I can find.

Can't even post links in quotations so this reply makes marginally less sense than it should! Exactly. Thanks for that. That link seems to be a summary of the same research but significantly reduced and without the supporting data and diagrams. I guess you're right about taking time to...

Received wisdom vs. research? Fuller version of this research now available to view online. I can't post links yet as I don't have enough posts under my belt so to find the article I'm referring to you can google "ucriverside bee sting removal" and it comes up as the first link for me. Having...

I see what you did there. ;) If I did eventually have a hive(s) in the garden a Beehaus wouldn't be much use anyway as I'd need to point them away from the house and that two sided design is not so good for that once you expand to that second colony. I'm a way off buying anything just yet but...

Thanks all. ^This deserves some appreciation!^

Hi all. I'm a resident of the delightful Canning Town in East London and am finally pursuing a latent curiosity for beekeeping by helping out with a Beehaus at the Greenwich Peninsula Ecology Park. In time I'd like to start keeping my own hive(s) in the garden but for now I'm getting some...