- Joined
- Mar 27, 2012
- Messages
- 2,929
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- 1,383
- Location
- Suffolk
- Hive Type
- National
- Number of Hives
- 8
My main apiary of eight hives is 800m from home. I have two cabinets there for spare CBs, QXs, clearer boards etc but have to store my BBs and supers in the open a few yards from the hives. Most times I can keep the stacks robber-proof by careful positioning.
This has been a shocking year for wasps, and being smaller than bees, they will find the smallest crack between the worn surfaces of elderly boxes. Driven to desperation two days ago I deployed some mattress covers that I'd purchased for a bad wasp year some time back. Each cover extends to ground level.
Today this is what I found. I could not see where they were entering. I couldn't help feeling an ungodly schadenfreude.
View attachment 665A15AA-8D1A-42AA-85B5-263A02D2B1C5.mov
This has been a shocking year for wasps, and being smaller than bees, they will find the smallest crack between the worn surfaces of elderly boxes. Driven to desperation two days ago I deployed some mattress covers that I'd purchased for a bad wasp year some time back. Each cover extends to ground level.
Today this is what I found. I could not see where they were entering. I couldn't help feeling an ungodly schadenfreude.
View attachment 665A15AA-8D1A-42AA-85B5-263A02D2B1C5.mov