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    Confession Time

    Sorry to hear of your woes Erica. Time for me to 'their fess up too. I had a disastrous winter and thought I'd lost everything. I bought a nuc from M-------- Apiaries to replace and start from scratch. In despair I brought the hive down closer to home, set up again in a much warmer spot and...
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    'Wannabee' from Pembrokeshire

    Hi again, I'm way out in bandit country on the eastern edge, North of Narberth where sheep start to look attractive and the hills resound to the sound of banjos and shotguns! As to mistakes I can pretty much guarantee you'll make some but that's how we learn. I agree that the 'what I did in the...
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    'Wannabee' from Pembrokeshire

    Welcome from my quiet corner of our beautiful county.
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    Pembrokeshire BKA auction today

    I saw the signs on my way to work at 6 am and again on the way home at 5 pm. I also missed the Whitland machinery sale last weekend another great place for buying other people's junk. Felt for the deceased beek's family though, wasn't he the one who closed the A40 a good while back?
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    Woodland smallholding

    I've grown a wood around us over the last 26 years.
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    Compost

    I've noticed a deterioration in the quality of peat based compost too in recent years. I always mix in a good handful of builders sand with mine.
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    I saw something nasty in the woodshed

    Not that my opinion holds much weight but I'm for the wasps - at least at this time of the year. I have squished in the past, a determined queen building in my greenhouse. I removed her nest hoping it would deter her but she kept coming back. I've kept the thing in a jar in homage to her...
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    Got stung!

    Thank you all for your kind words and whilst it's great to get sympathy what I wanted to do, in my muddle headed way, was to emphasise that although it might look seriously horrible, it is part and parcel of beekeeping. It was my own silly fault, she was in my line of vision and I thought I...
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    Got stung!

    I definitely still qualify as a beginner. Yesterday I got stung on the end of my nose through my veil. I was going to mention it on the anaphylactic thread to give it a bump but that's closed. I'm sitting here at 6:35 having just reassured myself that I'm not about to go into anaphylactic shock...
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    What did you do in the Apiary today?

    Finally took the mouse guards off and got stung on the end of my nose for my trouble. I was suited up too!
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    Deaf beekeeping ......

    I have very limited hearing. To date I can't think of an instance where it's been a hindrance to beekeeping. Being deaf tends to be more of a problem for the hearing community, they do so want to be heard... As to the improvements in other senses, I wondered where mine was until I realised not...
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    Practice swarm?

    I'm still very new and green but last summer I watched as the whole lot came pouring out, literally thousands, like a river of bees. Convinced it was a swarm I gave them a few minutes to settle, came back and they were all going back in again. Scary for a newbee but I remembered you guys saying...
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    What did you do in the Apiary today?

    Meandered up to the hives to marvel quietly when it occurred to me that one hive seemed to have bees taking off from behind the hive. I then spent the next 10 minutes on the floor behind the hive watching in disbelief as they squeezed through the varroa mesh floor!
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    Wasps already

    I've seen one or two scavenging around under the hives (all on stands) from the early spring. I haven't set too much store by it though. I'd have thought they'd still be in carnivorous mode for a while yet.
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    first real sting behind ear. ear swollen

    I got stung on the forehead, swelled up and slowly travelled down over the course of the next couple of days. Went from looking decidedly Klingon to a vampire from Buffy. Great fun! Wouldn't have missed it for worlds...
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    Which way up - rhombus clearer board?

    Excellent food for thought and design, thanks. From the novice perspective, all the pictures of a rhombus escape fitted are upside down. Which makes sense because it would just be a board with a hole in it the right way up! I received my crown board which, in my naivety I thought would work as...
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    Which way up - rhombus clearer board?

    Ahh, the wonders of the search function! I needed an answer and there it is. Thanks everyone, I need to increase the depth on my crown board or make a little eke....
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    AS question

    Stoney, please keep us informed. I'm a complete beginner and as green as grass but I think the bees will tell you soon if you were right.
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    What have you learned in your first year?

    I've started to keep a journal of what I find and see and when. Maybe next year I'll keep ahead of the little sods...
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    New Apiary, hive location - comments and opinions

    Although I have very limited experience, if there is a preferential direction then surely in a U shape some will be facing in precisely the wrong direction. Purely from a personal perspective I love just standing a few feet from the front watching them come and go which could be tricky in a U.
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