2016.... What will it bring?

[enrico]

One bee is six feet

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Therefore a bee yard equals two bees. There is your answer!
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[For want of a better word]

Therefore a bee yard equals two bees. There is your answer!
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The question is two bee or not two bee... what is the answer?

Yeghes da

 

[Erichalfbee]

what is the answer?

Yeghes da

42

 

[Finman]

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In Lapland there is a measure "reindeer's piss". IT is a distance which a reindeer runs without pissing.

 

[pargyle]

Quite right too.

Pargyle, I'm still trying to convince SWMBO that I need a planer thicknesser.
I keep meaning to make a push stick, this has made me decide.

Mine is a BEAST - it's a Startrite Inca made in the 1980's .. in Switzerland .. built like a brick khazi with the precision of a fine watch. Best £60 I've spent on ebay - it was in a bit of a state when I got it but once the grunge and layer of paint had been removed and the mechanism rebuilt and adjusted - works perfectly. You need nerves of steel to use it though ...

It's virtually identical to this one .. the SD310 design hardly changed in about 25 years ...

 

[Swarm]

Therefore a bee yard equals two bees. There is your answer!
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Surely it's half a bee?

 

[enrico]

Surely it's half a bee?

I have just spent half an hour trying to work it out.......of course you are right...well spotted....10 out of 5!!! Durr
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[jenkinsbrynmair]

Surely it's half a bee?

or maybe half a not bee?

 

[Erichalfbee]

Surely it's half a bee?

No. That's me

 

[For want of a better word]

or maybe half a not bee?

That would be dependant upon the wind and current directions, shirley?

Nos da

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

That would be dependant upon the wind and current directions, shirley?

Nos da

depends on whether you're working DR or EP's

 

[For want of a better word]

depends on whether you're working DR or EP's

DR a compass and a star to steer by.... then a bee line direct through the Western Entrance!



Nos da

 

[Tremyfro]

How many bees in the average hive? 4 average hives plus 1 double brood box hive plus 1 nuc on3 frames......hmmm...I wonder how many bees?

 

[Hivemaker.]

How many bees in the average hive? 4 average hives plus 1 double brood box hive plus 1 nuc on3 frames......hmmm...I wonder how many bees?

http://www.beekeepingforum.co.uk/showpost.php?p=504845&postcount=1

http://www.dave-cushman.net/bee/beesest.html

 

[Tremyfro]

Thank you HM
.....so approximately 20,000 bees in my hives....plus about 10,000 in the Pond Apiary......
By my calculation I have about 30,000 winter bees...minimum numbers.
So that is how many bees make a Bee Yard! Quite a responsibility to get them all through the winter!

 

[B+.]

By my calculation I have about 30,000 winter bees...minimum numbers.

If you perform the estimate for each colony in autumn (early-mid Oct) and again in spring (mid Feb - Early Mar), the percentage of bees that survive can be used as a gauge of over-wintering ability (https://youtu.be/ZCcbj1Gv9UM?t=18m20s). The vitality tests that I do use this method but they aren't allowed any medication that might influence the results.