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Fascinating tinker, may look at this one day, currently my little bosch drill has done 4 years extracting without complaint ( £30 in Trago Mills, the one they sent with it lasted about a season.....) .

Thanks for the tech and the link. Should do the job . Bob

Two questions really I have a Giordan 8 frame drill operated extractor in good working order but want a spare drive belt in case it wears out mid season. has anybody been able to buy one. I bought it from AGRINOVA about 4 years ago and this year they dont seem to answer the phone, reply to...

Farming today http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08rp301#play Link to Farming today on the Mt Edgecombe opening.

For those with an interest in Native Bees (AMM), I Will be attending the launch ceremony of the first UK black bee sanctuary at Mt Edgecombe later in the month. Everybody is welcome to join us for the official opening at 2pm. Public invitation for the opening ceremony 2pm Thursday 25th May...

Improving Bees by Raising Your Own Queens-Two Day Course in Cornwall Tutors: Roger Patterson, Jo Widdicombe, Nick Bentham-Green, Dave Ledger Saturday, 14 May & Sunday 15th at Harrowbarrow. Monday 16th and Tuesday 17th at Mt Edgcumbe start time 09:30 (BST) on all days. Event Details 2 Two...

Improving Bees by Raising Your Own Queens-Two Day Course in Cornwall Tutors: Roger Patterson, Jo Widdicombe, Nick Bentham-Green, Dave Ledger Saturday, 14 May & Sunday 15th at Harrowbarrow. Monday 16th and Tuesday 17th at Mt Edgcumbe start time 09:30 (BST) on all days. Event Details 2 Two...

The Bipco Bee improvement day will be held at Dobwalls on Saturday 6th February. Full Details on the Bipco Website. http://bipco.co.uk/events.html Bob Black

The 5th Bipco Bee Improvement day will be held in Dobwalls on Saturday 6th February. see the Bipco website for full details. http://bipco.co.uk/events.html

Pete,mostly the twaddle I refer to is the presumed wisdom that I took for gospel when I kept bees 40 years ago, I've spent much of my last 4 years discovering that much beekeeping then was little more than old wives tales and much of it persists today. Jo widdecombe quoted the papers and I...

Another fascinating Bibba day, with some useful morphometry comparisons across the Country and beyond, pity the DNA sampling for the same samples wasn't yet available. Also some interesting research findings on the quality and viability of Queens raised from emergency cells ( when deliberately...

Another fascinating Bibba day, with some useful morphometry comparisons across the Country and beyond, pity the DNA sampling for the same samples wasn't yet available. Also some interesting research findings on the quality and viability of Queens raised from emergency cells ( when deliberately...

http://bipco.co.uk/events.html 4th Annual Bee Improvement Day To be held at Dobwalls Memorial Hall, Higher Meadow, Dobwalls, near Liskeard, Cornwall PL14 6LS on Saturday 7th February 2015 at 9.00am for 9.30 start until 4.00pm Guest Speaker: Harry Owens from The Isle of Man plus local...

4th Annual Bee Improvement Day To be held at Dobwalls Memorial Hall, Higher Meadow, Dobwalls, near Liskeard, Cornwall PL14 6LS on Saturday 7th February 2015 at 9.00am for 9.30 start until 4.00pm Guest Speaker: Harry Owens from The Isle of Man plus local speakers A BIBBA Southwest Event...

go to the search box and enter: Bee Friendly exhibit and saving native black honey bees

See: http://www.edenproject.com/visit-us/whats-here/core/bee-friendly-exhibit

From your post it appears you 'hived' them on the original site and then moved them to an out apiary. Unless you waited unttill nightfall and closed them in before moving, the chances are these bees are the many that were left behind, or have I got the wrong end of the stick. Its not at all...

I monitored the spring drops on 6 colonies, low counts on all. Last week I let a university researcher capture some live mites from two of these 6. He did it by rolling in Icing sugar in a jar. he picked up 200 live mites. 3 of the six , all having shown low drop are, in reality, heavily...