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I did the second suit back in the early 80s with the nastiest colony I ever had to deal with, I still ended up in hospital with over 400 stings. I like the idea at the time but fell you need to 'deal' with nasty bees by working out why. It wasn't fun...

I use Langstroth Mediums like this which works vey well and kit wise is far simpler than any of the other systems I have tried. Just stick to wooden frames!

I have a load of MBS Langstoth nucleus hives (medium, standard deep and jumbo) and have wooden inserts to convert the satndard deep into BS deep and a jumbo into 14 x 12s. It gives me that flexibility to supply bees on the format people want and to not run out of kit. I can also run the nucs a...

Solway were decent sorting out issues after I posted a thread here, the problem was the quaity of their kit not communication.

I had some very iffy frames and brood boxes from these people. See an earlier thread.

I lost seveal Paynespoly nucs to mice last winter. They did not naw the poly, just came through the front door! The nucs (mk2) with the dial entrance were fine so I am in the process of closing the original entrance on the Mk1s and fitting the entrance wheels over a new entrance.

four in bait hives so far this year. Not always as good!

Don't forget many of the major suit suppliers do so in different materials. I have used light weight suits for years as I find the thicker cotton ones too warm for beekeeping. My Sherrif is on the way out after 15+ years, I bought BB Wear as a back up last year. I suspect I will buy a new...

The mini plus hives are great, I have one on four brood boxes I over wintered! It is my favoutite mating hive. Re Keilers, there are two sizes of second brood box available, one takes the feeder.....one does not. One box Apidea / Keilers are fine in the summer but 2 or more boxes do make a...

As a hive, they were nothing special and not very compatible with stuff. I ditched mine over 30 years ago.

Found four nests on 1st doing oxalic, one nuc dead, the rest was in roofs, or spare kit. Will need to be a bit more careful next year wrt mouse guards on spare kit.

Oxalic acid demo at the teaching apiary today. Some bees flying.

cold snap here atm, +5oC atm (10.30 pm) :( role on summer

luckily many here are not too concerned about yield, for me it well down the list of things I worry about, if fact it is pretty close to the bottom. When I kept bees in africa, yields were huge, but beekeeping was poor. Hives were taller than men and the yields would make yours look tiny. Each...

never come across a pollen shortage over here, you may want to boost it but there always seems to be plenty.

The motivation was there from the kids, it was other beekeepers that were 'luke warm' luckily now fixed. I started when I was 12 and was encouraged / mentored, moving onto my own hives when appropriate and almost 40 years later I still keep hives as does my father who started with me way back...

I have less issues with the younger beekeepers than the older ones (on probably all counts). In fact their enthusiasm should be encouraged. I went to a meeting at a school this year where older beekeepers were trying to stop a young beekeepers club, ther reasons were complete rubbish and based...

I thought ITLD did do something with dual Queens, or at least small colonies ontop of larger ones. ITLD?

been through this recently myself on both 7 and 10 inchers. If Android I liked the Nexus 7 and the Transformer Prime infinity, on Apple you have the mini and the new 4th generation. The clincher for me was looking at the same page on the Ipad mini and the Nexus 7. No contest (and I like the...

can it be run on a mac?