What did you do in the Apiary today?

[JamezF]

levelled a hive stand and shored up the legs which had been tilting....bit precarious lifting off a double brood plus super acting as eke for fondant but managed it off and back on without disaster

Near the start of this season I found queen cells in a double brood so having made space a sufficient distance away in the apiary I picked up the entire hive and carried it about fifteen metres, setting it in place in its new home. Oh how I laughed when I realised that I'd picked up the wrong hive and had to move it back, then carry the one I should have moved in the first place

James

 

[Do224]

Near the start of this season I found queen cells in a double brood so having made space a sufficient distance away in the apiary I picked up the entire hive and carried it about fifteen metres, setting it in place in its new home. Oh how I laughed when I realised that I'd picked up the wrong hive and had to move it back, then carry the one I should have moved in the first place

James

Does that work as swarm control? Do you just knock down all the cells and put an empty hive on the original spot?

 

[JamezF]

Does that work as swarm control? Do you just knock down all the cells and put an empty hive on the original spot?

If you can't find the queen and there are eggs and charged queen cells... Knock down all the queen cells. Move the original hive a good few metres from its initial location. Put a new hive in the old location with one frame of BIAS from the original hive. The new hive shouldn't swarm because there will be very few house bees. The old hive shouldn't swarm because most of the flying bees will leave at some point and return to the new one. Go back a week later and check for queen cells again to see which one didn't have the queen (and perhaps have more success at finding her in the other hive now there aren't so many bees).

James

 

[Cuckmere couple]

tidied up small apiary...annoyingly didnt have time to make up some longer supports so will have to consider re-doing those to leave room for inspecting but will manage for now

 

[Penninetrader]

tidied up small apiary...annoyingly didnt have time to make up some longer supports so will have to consider re-doing those to leave room for inspecting but will manage for now

Totally unrelated but, those bales are they now waste ?

 

[Amari]

Sold four jars of honey from my sales box today. Here are the proceeds. The purchaser must have had a laugh as they listened to the coins falling into the chamber pot via the sloping drainpipe through the hedge..........

 

[Erichalfbee]

Sold four jars of honey from my sales box today. Here are the proceeds. The purchaser must have had a laugh as they listened to the coins falling into the chamber pot via the sloping drainpipe through the hedge..........
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You do attract some strange customers.

 

[Antipodes]

Sold four jars of honey from my sales box today. Here are the proceeds. The purchaser must have had a laugh as they listened to the coins falling into the chamber pot via the sloping drainpipe through the hedge..........
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So colourful!
Our coins are comparatively boring

 

[Amari]

You do attract some strange customers.

Yes, the main problem is the shockingly low literacy rate. Despite clear instructions, folk leave the money in the sales box. If they manage to put bank notes down the tube they fail to rubber-band them - so the notes get stuck in the tube which is about 5' long.........

 

[Erichalfbee]

If they manage to put bank notes down the tube they fail to rubber-band them - so the notes get stuck in the tube which is about 5' long...

At least they won’t travel far. Do you have any souvenirs from work? …. Endoscope maybe

 

[enrico]

Sold four jars of honey from my sales box today. Here are the proceeds. The purchaser must have had a laugh as they listened to the coins falling into the chamber pot via the sloping drainpipe through the hedge..........
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I get the same, I think it is because people throw change into their car rather than carry it and then raid the pot for my honey! I get quite a few duff coins. Isle of mann, American,even old french franks

 

[enrico]

ok thanks....my technique was to lean back to take the weight rather than lift...then support on knees hoping theyd done a good job of sealing the two brood boxes...and then pivot

It's when you heels sink in and you keep going backwards that you start to panic, how far can you throw a full hive

 

[Amari]

At least they won’t travel far. Do you have any souvenirs from work? …. Endoscope maybe

......or maybe an implement from A&E - I once read an article about management of foreign bodies discovered on X-rays of the lower abdomen, in particular one case: staff struggling to retrieve a bust of Napoleon from a patient's rear passage.......

 

[drex]

Will always remember a quote from Bailey and Love's surgical textbook, the must read for any medical student in my time. An zx ray revealed a pepper pot stuck in some one's rectum. It read" when removed it was inscribed " a present from Margate". No wonder Amari 's customers are a bit odd - he lives in Suffolk, ( where I was born and raised)

 

[Amari]

But then you moved to the Clacton region of Essex where I suspect much worse depravities occurred. I still have my Bailey & Love

 

[pargyle]

But then you moved to the Clacton region of Essex where I suspect much worse depravities occurred. I still have my Bailey & Love
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What is it that makes us keep these texts - mementos of college life or the scourge of your student years ? I studied Engineering geology and geotechnics ... I still have my Shrock and Twenhofel - the ultimate Invertebrate Paleontology tome available at the time...