Insulation in hives

[Fusion_power]

 

[Amari]

It is the fault of voters that politicians lie.
Any voter who believes what politicians (of any hue) says without checking is a proven *****.

Our friends across the pond?

 

[Teemore]

Voters don't vote for politicians who tell them bad news. There is ALWAYS a money tree. It is the fault of voters that politicians lie.
Any voter who believes what politicians (of any hue) says without checking is a proven *****.

I watched a recent candidate for high office declare that there was corruption in politics: I am entertained at the way he has been frantically scrabbling to get into politics over the past months and weeks, seemingly dragging the electoral process into the gutter and feeding bigotry.
Given that he hasn't been involved in politics previously, it would appear he was keen to secure the highest office he could to make up for lost time.

 

[madasafish]

I watched a recent candidate for high office declare that there was corruption in politics: I am entertained at the way he has been frantically scrabbling to get into politics over the past months and weeks, seemingly dragging the electoral process into the gutter and feeding bigotry.
Given that he hasn't been involved in politics previously, it would appear he was keen to secure the highest office he could to make up for lost time.

Many of the people who voted for him responded to a message that resonated with those who felt left out or ignored by politicians. He won not because of the number of votes he gained - he in fact polled slightly less votes than Romney in 2012 - but because his opponent lost 6 million votes from Obama in 2012.

If voters feel a party has deserted them, then they will vote for an alternative - even though they may not believe in all its policies. They just want to vote for someone else who offers an alternative.

See Labour In Scotland.## For 40 years, Labour could weigh its votes in Scotland and basically ignored the Scots. Then the SNP came along and wiped out Labour - leaving only 1 Labour MP in the 2015 GE. Despite that, Scots voted against Independence.

See also Greece . And earlier, Hitler's rise in Germany. There are lots of other examples.

## And seem intent on repeating it in England.

 

[Erichalfbee]

To get anywhere in politics doesn't require honesty it requires tenacity and the ability to predate your way up the ladder.

 

[Finman]

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A democracy is a miserable thing.
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[madasafish]

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A democracy is a miserable thing.
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A dictatorship or an authoritarian Government is a lot worse.

(See apartheid South Africa#, North Korea etc.. Also Saudi Arabia etc)

# Lived there in its last year. Fascinating to see it change.

 

[Finman]

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I meant it as dummy joke. Guys say that politics is rubbish. If we take it off, what do we have them.

USA has its new president. People have spoken. UGH.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

# Lived there in its last year. Fascinating to see it change.

Have you been back since? sad what's been happening there the last few years.

 

[For want of a better word]

Had an interesting presentation last week from Derek Mitchell on insulation. The basis was that we should consider bees in there natural home ie a hole in a tree. He then established the coefficient of the heat loss through an average thickness of a tree if there is such a thing exists and calculated that as bees did not cluster until the temperture dipped to 10 degrees C that it was highly likely that they could survive through the winter without clustering. It also seems that the tempertures maintained within such a colony was not conducive to varoa propagation. He introduced tables of heat loss for various types of wood and polystetrene and none were even close to a tree. He suggested and indicated through research that hives insulated or even formed from insulation boards such as Kingspan gave much inprooved performances even during the summer. Highly enlightening

Thanks... now have partway gotten hives insulated... if only the roofs!

Travis Perkins say they have had a run on Celotex 1200mm x 450mm x 50mm sheets... and Celotex are having production problems!

Long way from US Political Mistakes... but hey ho!

Yeghes da

 

[Fusion_power]

and I had mixed feelings about brexit. The U.S. is not technically a democracy though most think it is.

 

[Finman]

Thanks... now have partway gotten hives insulated... if only the roofs!

Travis Perkins say they have had a run on Celotex 1200mm x 450mm x 50mm sheets... and Celotex are having production problems!

Long way from US Political Mistakes... but hey ho!

Yeghes da

Use terrarium heaters. They work very well. I started to install them to nucs.
.we will have tomorrow -10C.
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[For want of a better word]

Use terrarium heaters. They work very well. I started to install them to nucs.
.we will have tomorrow -10C.
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That would be the nuclear winter
Nos da

 

[charlievictorbravo]

Use terrarium heaters. They work very well. I started to install them to nucs.
.we will have tomorrow -10C.
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I've always meant to ask you, Finnie, are these small heaters powered from mains electricity or are they battery-powered and if so how are they recharged - Solar? Do you use them throughout the winter or just in the spring build-up?

CVB

 

[Finman]

I've always meant to ask you, Finnie, are these small heaters powered from mains electricity or are they battery-powered and if so how are they recharged - Solar? Do you use them throughout the winter or just in the spring build-up?

CVB

I have used only in spring, but this winter some of my colonies are so small that they cannot survive over winter. Reason to small clusters is varroa.
Apparatus uses 220 volts.

I keep the hives in cold house. So they does not have wind problem. Some of hives will be outdoors.

My all hives are inside the radius of 25 metres from the house Wall.

In April I put into all hives heating and I start to give pollen patty.

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[jenkinsbrynmair]

this winter some of my colonies are so small that they cannot survive over winter. Reason to small clusters is varroa.
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You really need to get your varroa under control you know - your colonies seem riddled with it.
You should get someone to teach you how it's done.
Obviously you haven't a clue.

 

[Finman]

You really need to get your varroa under control you know - your colonies seem riddled with it.
You should get someone to teach you how it's done.
Obviously you haven't a clue.

If I were you, I would stop the whole beekeeping. I would go then to shopping centre and I would bark people from morning to evening.

 

[Gaz1]

I have used only in spring, but this winter some of my colonies are so small that they cannot survive over winter. Reason to small clusters is varroa.

Do you not combine and treat small colonies? Or do you only Keep ones that do well through the year and make splits from that stock?

 

[Finman]

I have used only in spring, but this winter some of my colonies are so small that they cannot survive over winter. Reason to small clusters is varroa.

Do you not combine and treat small colonies? Or do you only Keep ones that do well through the year and make splits from that stock?

Only what I try to do now is to save the queens. Those small worker amounts have no value.

I feed with pollen patty big hives and then support nucs with emerged bees. I heat too colonies with electrict. Practically this is split making

 

[For want of a better word]

Only what I try to do now is to save the queens. Those small worker amounts have no value.

I feed with pollen patty big hives and then support nucs with emerged bees. I heat too colonies with electrict. Practically this is split making

I can not even contemplate how difficult it must be to keep bees up by the North Pole... difficult enough in our sub tropical microclimate here in the greatgreygreenslimeytamarvalleyallsetaboutwithnownonpurchasiblesecondhomes !!

Nos da