Preparing for bonfire night

[BCBEE]

I know its a few weeks away yet but it occured to me yesterday that on the days around bonfire night (and other religious celebrations) there will be a lot of smoke about.
Are there any special considerations to be made during this time i.e. Blocking hive entrance overnight etc. or do I just leave them to it.

Living in a major city theres perhaps a lot more in the way of private bonfires than rural areas and it does get quite smoggy for 2-3 days around the 5th

Cheers
Phill

 

[Poly Hive]

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Relax. They will be absolutely fine.

PH

 

[For want of a better word]

I lost three hive last year............. ***** builder burned a load of scaffold board and used tyres within a few yards of my out apiary hives, and blackened the side of my motorhome.
I think the smoke eventually got to them.

Who do you think should be the prime guy for this years bonfire night?

I got into terrible trouble for making a FATCHER masked ( Luck& Flaw) guy....... back in one of the last centuries winters of discontent.................................... .....................................!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

 

[Poggle]

Now then. I have been getting horror stories about people lighting fires in allotments and killing/smoking out bees. Any words of wisdom about this guys n gals? Like, how close and big would a fire need to be to get the bees upset and move them out? Most of the people who light fires over the winter down our allotments tend to have small ones that burn slow over night or, have one large but very hot fire to get rid of the rubbish quickly.

 

[djg]

I think a lot depends on the level of activity of the bees. In the deep winter months, two of my hives on OMF live either side of a chimney (5 feet away and four feet above hive entrances), which is active on cold nights only. It's quite windy on a 4-storey roof.

There is no discernable effect on the bees' welfare - I assume that they (a) are inactive and clustered (b) do not actually get a lot of smoke or combustion gases and (c) have no-where else to go.

So I would not be worried about bonfire night in general, unless there is a large pyre and /or toxic materials being burnt in close proximity. Enjoy the smell of cordite and the blue haze the morning after !

 

[tonybloke]

I lost three hive last year............. ***** builder burned a load of scaffold board and used tyres within a few yards of my out apiary hives, and blackened the side of my motorhome.

was he prosecuted? I hope so, as the burning of tyres carries a £10.000 fine.
if not, why didn't your local environmental health dept charge him?

 

[For want of a better word]

Tonybloke.... oh yes I did inform them ( Tory South Hams District Council) but was told over the phone that it was too late once "the act of burning had been commissioned"
I think they just did not want to know as with most things... probably would have got a different response if I was Sir something or other!!!!

 

[mexbigshow]

Tonybloke.... oh yes I did inform them ( Tory South Hams District Council) but was told over the phone that it was too late once "the act of burning had been commissioned"
I think they just did not want to know as with most things... probably would have got a different response if I was Sir something or other!!!!

sounds like the council are filling you with crap there, when can you report it before they even start the fire? sounds a bit backwards to me

 

[BCBEE]

sounds like the council are filling you with crap there, when can you report it before they even start the fire? sounds a bit backwards to me

Typical response from a council who either didnt know the law or was too busy to take it seriously.
If someone starts a tyre fire they commit an offence and they can be prosecuted. Simple. Tat council are probally a bit like the police - so understaffed they cant take incidents deemed to be non urgent seriously.

 

[For want of a better word]

I even phoned the Environment Agency.... told me to contact local council!!!!!

If this had been an inner city situation the plod would have been all over him like a rash.....
in the countryside.... Deepest Darkest Devon..... nowhere to be seen
No wonder ConDems are now in an egg flip over the Olympics... they have sacked all the plod they needed to call on to "police" it.
Perhaps the Hells Angels could do it for them after all they are another well organised group of thugminded individuals... said in the nicest possible way of course.....

 

[BBG]

I even phoned the Environment Agency.... told me to contact local council!!!!!

If this had been an inner city situation the plod would have been all over him like a rash.....
in the countryside.... Deepest Darkest Devon..... nowhere to be seen
No wonder ConDems are now in an egg flip over the Olympics... they have sacked all the plod they needed to call on to "police" it.
Perhaps the Hells Angels could do it for them after all they are another well organised group of thugminded individuals... said in the nicest possible way of course.....

I have read somewhere on the net in a "Wainwrights" type observation that the wheel was later arriving in Devon than everywhere else.

 

[For want of a better word]

I have read somewhere on the net in a "Wainwrights" type observation that the wheel was later arriving in Devon than everywhere else.

no that was the WHEAL....... or was that Cornwall.... |Wheal Jane etc...