Beginners course worth the money?

[victor meldrew]

To be honest I haven't been on any courses ,they weren't as popular has they've become of late!
I still believe that a course isn't absolutely necessary!
The wise thing to do is join a society ( one where subscribing to a beginners course isn't mandatory )
Handle bees to ascertain mutual compatibility .
Find a mentor , volunteer to assist (there is always a ageing guy who could do with your muscle ) who knows, he maybe grateful enough to present you with a nuc or two? Nucs which you will have had a hand in creating ?
Beekeeping is expensive at the onset but it is possible to ameliorate .
You must realise that there is a price to pay but the wise man needn't break the bank!
VM



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[itma]

... I have read that if bees are kept in conditions they are happy in they do not sting. Is that so?

Would that mean that Julia Bradbury would say that Heidi's bees are unhappy?

 

[REDWOOD]

[/B]

The two in bold are debatable.

+1

 

[REDWOOD]

As All above, Attend courses, lectures, conventions, shows, association meetings and register with Beebase
Good luck

 

[Chris B]

I will have to look into this as I believe that there is a lot of leg pulling going on at the moment and do not know what to believe!

We've missed you. Welcome back.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

A revelation to me was that there are some bee keepers who actually want to keep bees in a more natural

Once you put bees in a box, regardless of it's shape that's not natural about time these sanctimonious id!ots got out of their little worlds and grew up.

and not force the poor things into boxes so that you can steal all their honey.

Hmmm don't remember the three swarms thatmoved into my bait hives last year being forced to do so at gunpoint

I have read that if bees are kept in conditions they are happy in they do not sting. Is that so?

we don't lock the bees in the hives at night if they weren't happy with our hives they'd just fly away.
I can hear mine chuckling away when they sting me!

let's stop this silly anthromopomorphism that the tree hugging types are so fond of shall we?

 

[Apple]

Silly anthropomorphism ?... but you worship your bees, just as much as Doris does her Landrover!

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

 

[Hivemaker.]

 

[VEG]

Yep

 

[charlievictorbravo]

SO funny !

I googled bee sting therapy to be given this warning!

"Bee sting venom can cause anaphylactic shock which can cause sudden death. The risk of shock is unacceptably high to try bee sting therapy without the supervision of an allergist"

But my digger driver's brother says that you can get an injection against bee stings and he has a special "apiary pen" Doris says she thinks they are pulling my leg and is Cornish humor reserved for us hemmets!

I will have to look into this as I believe that there is a lot of leg pulling going on at the moment and do not know what to believe!

A bee sting can cause anaphylactic shock and if beekeepers are susceptible to this they can, after consulting a physician, be prescribed an epipen from which they self-inject adrenaline in the event of being stung. Us emmets have got to stick together. Mind you, some of those grockles are really weird.

It's a good idea to find out if you're allergic to bee stings at a very early point of your beekeeping career. How you accomplish this is up to you.

CVB

 

[drstitson]

"Would that mean that Julia Bradbury would say that Heidi's bees are unhappy?"

You can't blame Heidi's bees - Julia was clearly NOT wearing the usual PPE that NBT bees have come to expect (i.e. floaty white dress).

 

[GrumpyBunny]

Still do not know what I will do if a bee stings me ...

Swear maybe?

 

[Roola]

Get real you WILL get stung just get used to it

I quite like getting stung... I can't stand the itching and swelling the net day!!!!!

 

[Apple]

Swear maybe?

Oh bother!

now I will be late!

 

[Hawklord]

I did a course through my local Association, that cost £25, and got my first nuc of bees free.

 

[Moggett]

Me too for some time now

 

[psafloyd]

I'm sure its been done on a book thread so lets not hijack this one.

I quite agree.

But you're showing yourself up by rating that cramp drivel IMHO [/QUOTE]

Really. Nothing wrong with Cramp. I found it very useful at first, especially as a comparison to some of the canon and others.

Plenty of others out there for newbies to be careful of which are:

a) poorly written
b) poorly edited
c) poorly published
d) merely copy others' words, contribute nothing new and are therefore of no value

It's also a paperback and so preferable as far as I am concerned.

 

[user 6228]

haha yes, i remember in June last year poor Steve was on here every other day telling us his bees had swarmed again... he ran out of equipment to put them in! Was always a fun read.

he wasnt alone

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

But that's part of the rich tapestry of beekeeping and we have to learn to cope.