What did you do in the Apiary today?

[Finman]

[FONT=&quot]“Bees in wood does not do any good”[/FONT]

That is true. A swarm in pine top ..

My friend use to shoot down those swarms with rifle. A branch cut and swarm drops.

 

[For want of a better word]

Helped farmer friend to replace padlock and chain and gates to field ..... pikeys had let horses go in for a bit of free grazing!
Fortunately the bit of stock fencing we had put around the hives kept the horses off!

Yeghes da

 

[Finman]

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Once I has hives under trees, where sun did not shine much. The yield was half of normal. That was first and last time when I put hives into shadow.
As bad are field edges.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Helped farmer friend to replace padlock and chain and gates to field ..... pikeys had let horses go in for a bit of free grazing!
Fortunately the bit of stock fencing we had put around the hives kept the horses off!

Yeghes da

Fly grazing is a big problem over the mountain in Swansea, mostly the non travelling 'traveller type' living in the sink estates and high rises. Remember the old man telling me when he was working a door renewal contract in one of the less salubrious high rises there in the early eighties - one lot had a horse stabled on the twelfth floor! I suppose it made a change from the usual suspects using the lifts as a toilet!!

 

[Monsieur Abeille]

Unpacked the new varrox and had a trial run. Was persuaded it is too cold to do the real thing.

Made up some takeaways of fondant.

 

[Robbo8916]

We finished fencing off the new apiary site on the orchard project. 7ft wooden fences all round.

Had a long discussion and decided we're not going to put the hives there after all. So will soon be time to remove said fence and move it to the other end of the site on the balsam patch.

Awaiting the imminent planning decision on the solar farm! Everything crossed for that one!!!

 

[BrianO]

Vaped 7 colonies yesterday, couple of hives going Gangbusters coming and going in 5 degrees.

Our Natives are Hardy Divel's ! Little bit of cold does not stop these guys !

 

[Gilberdyke John]

We finished fencing off the new apiary site on the orchard project. 7ft wooden fences all round.

Had a long discussion and decided we're not going to put the hives there after all. So will soon be time to remove said fence and move it to the other end of the site on the balsam patch.

Awaiting the imminent planning decision on the solar farm! Everything crossed for that one!!!

Solar farms produce 3/4 of sweet fa in winter when the power is most needed and mean proper power stations run below optimum efficiency in summer.

 

[Robbo8916]

Solar farms produce 3/4 of sweet fa in winter when the power is most needed and mean proper power stations run below optimum efficiency in summer.

I'm not excited BECAUSE its a solar farm, I'm excited because I will have sole access to a securely fenced site in which to put hives. It will be 25 acres of wildflower meadow and is also right alongside the railway line which has an abundance of HB.

With forests, HB a stream and over 200 allotments surrounding it I think its a pretty perfect spot ��

 

[oliver90owner]

What is Your back ground with bee's, I'm clueless personally and in my first season but some of what you type is dribble to me and goes against what i have read in book's and been advised by 100% knowledgeable members.

Two things.

First look back at his previous posting history. It should not take you too long to come to a conclusion. It is mostly dribble to most, not just to yourself.

Secondly, there is yet to be a 100% knowlegeable beekeeper, let alone a member.

We can all learn something; many could learn a lot, if only they could sort the wheat from the chaff - and then there are those that will never be able to think for themselves.

 

[madasafish]

Solar farms produce 3/4 of sweet fa in winter when the power is most needed and mean proper power stations run below optimum efficiency in summer.

The Thought Police will take you away for writing that - if you wrote it for the Guardian you would have hundreds of complaints.

 

[Finman]

We can all learn something.

How?

What we need most is " away learning"

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[Tremyfro]

Released the bees in the double nuc that I moved from Pond Apiary to Bee Yard....well I say released....but none came out...they are still clustering here.

 

[For want of a better word]

I'm not excited BECAUSE its a solar farm, I'm excited because I will have sole access to a securely fenced site in which to put hives. It will be 25 acres of wildflower meadow and is also right alongside the railway line which has an abundance of HB.

With forests, HB a stream and over 200 allotments surrounding it I think its a pretty perfect spot ��

I looked at a solar "farm" site... but it seems it was going to be regularly sprayed with paraquat ... so invested my efforts on a golf course... supposedly a green desert of mono culture grass... but the greenkeepers went wild with borage and green manure....... 120kg colonies... and the bees had plenty to drink in the ponds what were filled with mains water.. even in the drought!

What some farmers will do for a subsidy!

Yeghes da

 

[Gilberdyke John]

The Thought Police will take you away for writing that - if you wrote it for the Guardian you would have hundreds of complaints.

Future generations will wonder in bemused amazement that the early
twenty-first century’s developed world went into hysterical panic over a
globally average temperature increase of a few tenths of a degree, and,
on the basis of gross exaggerations of highly uncertain computer
projections combined into implausible chains of inference, proceeded to
contemplate a rollback of the industrial age.

Richard Lindzen

Just about sums it up

 

[oliver90owner]

Your children's children may not be quite so bemused, only indignant that their grandparents were availed with the alarming data on CO2 levels etc and failed to take any action to save them from the reality of their ruined environment. Remember we do not own this planet but should be looking after it for future generations

 

[For want of a better word]

Your children's children may not be quite so bemused, only indignant that their grandparents were availed with the alarming data on CO2 levels etc and failed to take any action to save them from the reality of their ruined environment. Remember we do not own this planet but should be looking after it for future generations

Well said that man!

Yeghes da

 

[Robbo8916]

I looked at a solar "farm" site... but it seems it was going to be regularly sprayed with paraquat ... so invested my efforts on a golf course... supposedly a green desert of mono culture grass... but the greenkeepers went wild with borage and green manure....... 120kg colonies... and the bees had plenty to drink in the ponds what were filled with mains water.. even in the drought!

What some farmers will do for a subsidy!

Yeghes da

I've checked all that. It is to be kept as a natural wildflower meadow. There will be a few sheep to keep grass in check but other than that it will be left alone.

Nothing will be sprayed on the land, especially as the farm is a livery yard and stud so horses roam everywhere (except my bit lol)

 

[For want of a better word]

I've checked all that. It is to be kept as a natural wildflower meadow. There will be a few sheep to keep grass in check but other than that it will be left alone.

Nothing will be sprayed on the land, especially as the farm is a livery yard and stud so horses roam everywhere (except my bit lol)

Until they start spraying ragwort.. and broadleaf weeds... plantain and dock.. that will eventually take over!
Sad to say I have seen this.. and heard this "wildflower" spiel before!

A few decent sized nuclear power plants could be built that actually produce constant carbon free energy for all the money wasted on high maintenance solar farms and unsightly wind turbines.
No more concrete would be used than providing all the infrastructure for the solar and windy miller con!

Nos da

 

[Fatbee]

Well said that man!

Yeghes da

Indeed. The planet will not die, just change to be more uncomfortable for us as it's main parasite. What I struggle with is that the things I admire such as mans desire to develop and grow will be our ultimate downfall unless we change our ways. The human race is never happy with its lot - should take a look at those other long lived species - the crocs - happy with their lot and the environment they live in. Been around longer than us and will probably outlive us all. They keep things simple