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[Hivemaker.]

(well commercial beekeepers as they get better yields).
RAB

Certainly not convinced about that after poly hives comment that in a good year 50/60 hives would collect a ton of honey on the rape,i can get that quantity with a little over half that number of wooden hives,and moving the bees away a week early, in a bad year like last one. Do you think the quality of the bees could make a difference,Buckfasts.

 

[oliver90owner]

2 supers per hive on a good OSR flow should not be too difficult. Maybe location and beekeeper are factors as well as strain of bee. I can easily miss the OSR by allowing the bees to expand as they might prefer in spring - the OSR might be gone before the hives are up to adequate forager strength to collect a decent surplus.

RAB

 

[Dusty Rhodes]

Thank you, but I am a naturalist beekeeper..........

The ways of our colonial cousins are indeed strange.

But tell me, where do you put your hive tool when examining hives?

Dusty.

 

[AmericasBeekeeper]

Same place I hang my bee brush and smoker! You guys are too funny!

 

[Dusty Rhodes]

We're funny???


You're the one proposing to wander the lanes of East Anglia, with your smoker, your bee brush and your hive tool, dangling.............


Ah. I see.


On further reflection, welcome to the UK.

You'll fit in there just fine.



Dusty.