Bees Boxes & Heat

[Finman]

Don't despair bob, wood hives have seen me through 30 years. Ok, so my bees could produce more honey,
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I made 20 beehives from wood 1966. And all frames by my self. I bought swarms and filled my hives with bees. So, 50 years have gone and use still my pine boxes.

Most of wooden boxes are still in use. I use them as supers. Polyhives I started to use 1987. About 30 years ago.

What is difference? Wooden hive uses 50% more winter food. It means that food in polyhive lasts 9 months for bees, but in wooden boxes 6 months up to Marsh. NO starving deaths any more with poly, and no emergengy feeding needed. I even winter stores between hives in Spring.

I use polyhives and wooden hives mixed.

Water locked wooden box's weight is 9 kg ( 3 cm wall). Poly box 1.0 kg.
Two wooden boxes 18 kg in spring when I move hives to outer pastures. Not good to back.

 

[wessexmario]

it would certainly help BKA commitees trying to find/sample speakers and help them boost numbers of attendees from nearby BKAs
also another way of finding out about talks going on in your area

+1
and after the event it would also be useful for reviewing speakers that BKAs have heard, speakers getting feedback on their presentations, and promoting discussion on the subjects discussed.

 

[clv101]

2016...

Are you able to find and add links to the events on local BKA websites as they appear?
As you must be getting pretty well polished now, have you thought about recording one for YouTube?

 

[user 6228]

Are you able to find and add links to the events on local BKA websites as they appear?
As you must be getting pretty well polished now, have you thought about recording one for YouTube?

I could put up links but I'm not too sure how the forum would look on that.
Somehow having it up on youtube makes me shudder (dont know why)

add Ipswich and East Suffolk Beekeepers Association 23rd March
[URL="http://www.suffolkbeekeepers.co.uk/Events.html"]http://www.suffolkbeekeepers.co.uk/Events.html
[/URL] I'm the short notice replacement for Hasan Mohammad Al Toufailia: Dealing with Varroa.

 

[Pete D]

Derek will be appearing here in Norfolk at our AGM on the 20th Feb.
All welcome.
http://www.wnklba.co.uk/events/

 

[user 6228]

Many thanks for the warm welcome in Norfolk, next a bit further south.

23rd March Ipswich
12th April Swansea
13th September Lancaster
11th October Chichester
25th October Chalfont
14th November Bridgend
15th November Yeovil

possibly 2 more in Hampshire

 

[user 6228]

Current schedule is

13th September Lancaster
11th October Chichester
25th October Chalfont
5th November Sparsholt Hampshire
14th November Bridgend
15th November Yeovil
11th January York
one more possible in February

 

[user 6228]

The lancaster talk is at
St Paul's Hala Worship & Community Centre, Hala Square, Lancaster, LA1 4RW
on the 13th at 7.30pm

 

[user 6228]

Current schedule is

13th September Lancaster
11th October Chichester
25th October Chalfont
5th November Sparsholt Hampshire
14th November Bridgend
15th November Yeovil
2017:
11th January York
February East Devon & West Dorset - awaiting confirmation
25th March Dover - awaiting confirmation
18th April South Gloucestershire Beekeepers -awaiting confirmation
16th September 2017 ,Taunton Beekeepers

 

[user 6228]

Current schedule is

11th October Chichester
25th October Chalfont
5th November Sparsholt Hampshire
14th November Bridgend
15th November Yeovil
2017:
11th January York
9th February East Devon & West Dorset (Bridport)
25th March Dover
18th April South Gloucestershire Beekeepers
6th September N. Staffs and South Cheshire (Newcastle under lyme)
16th September 2017 ,Taunton Beekeepers

 

[madasafish]

Current schedule is

11th October Chichester
25th October Chalfont
5th November Sparsholt Hampshire
14th November Bridgend
15th November Yeovil
2017:
11th January York
9th February East Devon & West Dorset (Bridport)
25th March Dover
18th April South Gloucestershire Beekeepers
6th September N. Staffs and South Cheshire (Newcastle under lyme)
16th September 2017 ,Taunton Beekeepers

See you September 2017 Derek

You should write an article for BBKA News...

 

[pargyle]

See you September 2017 Derek

You should write an article for BBKA News...

Hmmmm ...and then get burnt at the stake for heresy !! Matchsticks Rule - OK ?

 

[madasafish]

Hmmmm ...and then get burnt at the stake for heresy !! Matchsticks Rule - OK ?

Burning is too good for heretics.

Embalmed alive with propolis then covered with honey and staked on top of an ants nest.. Takes far longer.. you can come back for days to see the victim perish..

(So I am informed never having tried it),,,

 

[user 6228]

write a reposte... I'm not sure its worth it. The teachings of Brother Adam are articles of faith for his disciples. Telling them the writings in his book do not constitute valid scientific documentation as they do not allow repetition for verification will not convince them. Nether will saying that the failure to measure the conductance and permiablilty of the hive with cover and without makes the results meaningless

 

[JWF]

Hi Derek,

Are you still going to to be visiting Dover in March?

Many thanks

 

[user 6228]

Hi Derek,

Are you still going to to be visiting Dover in March?

Many thanks

yes..
in addition
North Herts is provisonally oct 17th
Bridgend Nov 13th is "The Honeybee and the mosquito - over 100 years of the insulation ventilation debate"
Lyndhurst Nov 16th "The Honeybee and the mosquito - over 100 years of the insulation ventilation debate"

 

[user 6228]

Lovely reception in Alkham nr Dover from the DDBKA. Many thanks
Btw it was food to meet up Itma and put a face to a name

 

[pargyle]

Lovely reception in Alkham nr Dover from the DDBKA. Many thanks
Btw it was food to meet up Itma and put a face to a name

Welll ...There's a name we haven't seen for a couple of years ... stopped posting in 2015 and no activity for over a year ... all is well I hope ? A sad loss to the forum ...