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  1. Ed Woods

    Advice - want to start wasp exterminator business

    Wasps would be a sideline as I plan still to keep my curent job but then work my way onto mice, fleas etc.
  2. Ed Woods

    Advice - want to start wasp exterminator business

    Cheers for this - I have emailed some of the pest control associations so I have the full details of what training etc I need. I get so many call outs to wasps that I am missing out on treating them myself. I had some training on pesticides and chemicals some 20 or so years ago when I used to...
  3. Ed Woods

    Advice - want to start wasp exterminator business

    Already made some enquiries re PA1 courses in Norfolk so waiting for response after the holidays. Have some contacts who are pest controllers so will speak to them when I am back at work.
  4. Ed Woods

    Advice - want to start wasp exterminator business

    Thanks for this. I wil probably start with normal household chemicals. Already looking around for courses to go on as I would eventually like to move onto this professionaly. I already have enough buildings to create an outdoor chemichal store (one of my first jobs was seling...
  5. Ed Woods

    Nuc of bees for sale Norfolk - caught swarm

    Having caught a swarm in Lakenheath on Sunday the colony that lives above my front door decided to swarm today and move into my bait hive. I have added a frame of stores and 5 frames of new brood foundation on National frames. I now have more bees than I can handle so would like to sell this...
  6. Ed Woods

    Advice - want to start wasp exterminator business

    Where do I start? I am having 3 or 4 calls a day from people with 'bees'. Some of these turn out to be wasps. I don't have any equipment to wipe out wasp nests. Can anyone give me any pointers at what sort of equipment, training etc I would need to start initially a wasp eradication business -...
  7. Ed Woods

    Swarm needed collecting Lakenheath, Suffolk.

    Swarm collected by a lady beekeeper from Weeting
  8. Ed Woods

    Swarm needed collecting Lakenheath, Suffolk.

    I wonder if any forum members in near Lakenheath, Suffolk can help this guy? Had call from a Mr Tomlin 01842 861953 His neighbour is in his 90s and has been stung several times by a swarm about 10 foot off his footpath and would like someone to come and remove it. I was going to go and remove...
  9. Ed Woods

    Thought on swarms

    four calls on Sunday - 2 for honeybees, 1 for wasps and another for a nice clump of bees on an apple tree - a quick shake and caught most of them in my bait box :) Ended up with a caught swarm and my daughter ended up with £30 as people kept giving her £10 as I refused to take anything for...
  10. Ed Woods

    Collapsed colony - what should I do

    I now believe is was Nosema that killed most of them off. Im going to rescue the Queen, the frame of brood and as many bees as possible. Will place in a Nuc witha frame of brood and some nurse bees from another of my hives - will add a feeder with some syrup and a frame or two of sealed stores...
  11. Ed Woods

    Collapsed colony - what should I do

    No signs of AFB or EFB - no signs of Nosemia or any other disease - when I treated for Varroa there was a large initial drop but this reduced to 1 or 2 per day when I treated 2 weeks later. Entered Winter the strongest colony - only differance was this hive the frames were facing back to front...
  12. Ed Woods

    Collapsed colony - what should I do

    My strongest colony entered Winter with a brood box and two supers full of bees - both supers were full of stores. They were fed - treated for Varroa - I thought it would survive the Winter - my weaker colonies made it OK. When I examined it two weeks ago there was just a frame of bees and...
  13. Ed Woods

    Chickens

    Have 20 chickens - they scratch under the hives when they are free roaming - only problem is on of my Marans who insists on standing in front of one of the entrances attracting a swarm of aggitated bees - she soon runs away. The bees visit the chickens as well - to suck moisture out of fresh...
  14. Ed Woods

    Honeybee behaviour - collective 'drinking'?

    Mine suck the moisture from fresh chicken poo - we could market a range of genuine farmyard honey :) My chickens ignore bees although if they stand in front of a beehive they attract a crowd of frustrated bees.
  15. Ed Woods

    The law of unintended consequences

    Many years ago, before bees and chickens, I had a great veg patch - it was my pride and joy. However I had a mouse infestation and the buggers dug up and ate all my pea plants so I deployed a mouse trap. Imagine my horror when I discovered a dead robin in the trap - it was the Robin that was at...
  16. Ed Woods

    The law of unintended consequences

    Use instead of a mouseguard?
  17. Ed Woods

    What did you do in the Apiary today?

    All four hives very active with dozens of bees coming and going. Won't inspect until the end of the month when the Queen excluders will go back on. Pleased that they appear to have survived the winter - inspection will show if the Queen is up and laying and plenty of brood. Found dozens of...
  18. Ed Woods

    Swindon Honeybee Conservation Group

    There was an interesting article in the latest Smallholder magazine about the Swindon Honeybee Conservation Group and their hygenic bees - able to groom off the Varroa mite and remove larvae with Varroa mites on them. http://www.swindonhoneybeeconservation.org.uk/ Looks like the future in...
  19. Ed Woods

    Swindon Honeybee Conservation Group

  20. Ed Woods

    How many hives per area

    Drove past a commercial apiary in Lincolnshire that was stuck in the middle of an empty field - thought I counted 60 or 70 hives. Used to spotting 20 or so together but had never seen so many in such a small area. Assume they were being over wintered together.
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