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My wife had a full head of steam,and she put fingers to keyboard and we had a letter in the local paper pointing out the stupidity of the risk and also reminding about an incident that happened locally but with wasps where a lady was killed owing to some fool prodding a wasps nest with his...

If you can show me a badger that can throw the heavy roofs of Nationals thirty yards in all directions,then also remove the foundation and throw that(with out eating anything) then chuck the Brood Boxes across the field and also the frames as well,I would like to see it,the farm is arable no...

Half Term finished yesterday round here.very very hard frost night before so bee's probably very dozy,I was not suggesting young kids,more like those smoking non smoking materials who look for deserted places where the smell does not attract attention.

He said that at 16-00 on Sunday they were Ok,at 08-00 this morning his son found my hives just scattered as though they were a Frisbie,He is as upset as I,this farm is out in the sticks gates locked and Bee's hidden behind an old wall of a Barn,I have Never seen any one on this out farm,no one...

Got a call from a farmer where I keep six Hives,to say I had a problem,called round to find that all six hives and frames have basically been used as frisbies,thrown all over the field in all directions,needless to say all bees are dead.Nothing Stolen,what do they get out of doing...

Mine are flying in Essex too.:)

Yes, I read it and thought that it was/is very good,I thought that is would be a very good reference book both for beginners and mature beekeepers.:iagree:

Yep next year the four will become eight,and that is without Swarms. Believe me I started this year with seven that I safely brought through the winter,did some artificial swarms,collected Swarms had calls sometimes six in one day to collect swarms am now up at nineteen,would have been twenty...

Don't tell me ,let me guess, gone BUST????:toetap05:

Thirty pounds is what the association charges ,but I did have some one last year tell me that he knew the saying about what bees were worth silver spoons and the rest,he was insisting I paid him. I told him well then have the B***ers back and shook them all out of the swarm box,they were not...

Glad that I am not the only onebee-smillie

I started with several plywood hives I painted them all with Ducksback fence paint and put four coats on them,in the second year the roof started to delaminate,I also did my back in trying to lift the things.I have now gone over to Red Cedar I have also painted these with Linseed oil,mainly to...

Well I certainly know where that fence post is,and I suspect that some one else on here does as well:smilielol5: But I hardly think that this is anywhere near those stolen Hives or the M25 come to that.

Mine were flying as well,at least the hive in the garden wasbee-smillie

might I suggest you have a word with Mike Lane who is in Faversham(I think) I know that he had/has over 400 hives and he is getting out of the business, he also had/has several polination contracts,he may well be able to stop you loosing a lot of cash.Information from him could well be worth a...

Having seen the forecast yesterday ,I went round all my Hives and put ratchet straps on holding the hives down onto the pallets that I use as hives stands. The other hives that I have on hive stands were also strapped down, for the sake of four pounds for a ratchet strap(fleabay) I think that is...

Well I am in SouthWoodham Ferrers,which is around 12 miles from Chelmsford, nine miles from Maldon ,I have made up welded galvanised wire Cages,as a friend of mine from near chelmsford who has quite a few (more than 30) colonies had last year several of his colonies attacked,the woodpeckers seem...

I have mine blocked off with metal gauze,held down with drawing pins, when feeding I just swing the middle piece to one side .:D

Has the sting count gone up again I wonder.well done Rick nice photo, Regards, Steve.

I think that I would be inclined to use the petrol if they are that bad.no point in just dumping the queen over a hedge,I would be worried what may happen if she /they end up in a garden or near children.