The medlars and the cooking apple next door always do well and the crows leave them alone. All the pears have been stolen. The apples are netted and safe for now.
What or who would want to eat a medlar ...just the look of them would put anyone off ! No wonder the French name for them is Cul de Chien. It makes you wonder how nature managed to evolve such a fruit and what mechanism the tree has for spreading it's population far and wide. Or perhaps .. in the past ...there were medlar eating creatures that were obviously blind ...
Parrots and fruit bats, seemingly.
Parrots will eat anything and fruit bats are nearly blind so that's probably the medlars target spreader .... not that many free living parrots in the northern hemisphere though !!
Just started vape no. 1 on 54 colonies in 9 apiaries, just had enough battery power to finish mainly because I managed to maintain the InstantVap temperature between apiaries.
Rather you than me. I’d had enough after only five colonies! The Varrox works well but is a little laborious….
The InstantVap is so much easier than the Varrox. I did 22 colonies in my main apiary in under 40 minutes.
I’ve been turning mine off between hives & find that the battery loses power pretty fast.
Isn’t it a bit early for vaping? I thought the broodless period is in December. What’s leading you to all do it at the moment?
I used about 14ah to do the 54 colonies but put the InstantVap in my insulated case between apiaries. This kept the temperature at about 150deg which meant I used less power to get back to the 230deg.
Rough price is £16-18 but delivery for such a heavy item makes it a poor deal at £27-30. I managed to get it down to £16.40 at a 40-box rate. Company is a national bakers' supplier with a min. charge of £250. Twenty minutes drive from an apiary, so I can collect.
