I tend to decide whether they need feeding or not by observation and hefting rather than waiting for permission from the NBU
And odds on the feed your little girlies too with nasty sugar!
Certainly not - only the best for mine - organic non GM oat milk or, as a treat almond milk
I once knew a stilt walking fire juggling clown called " Milking de Public "Certainly not - only the best for mine - organic non GM oat milk or, as a treat almond milk
I wonder why they call it almond milk rather than Nut Juice?
Why would they starve? I leave them 20kg of their own honey in autumn and monitor the stores remaining throughout the winter by accurate weighing. NBU warnings are irrelevant.
Point, presumably missed, was that many of the colonies had very little in the way of stores going into Autumn... so little it was not worth extracting!
..and if you had read the whole thread you would see that I was oringinally replying to #10, who had excess sugar stores in spring.
Another case of 'it's the XX th January - time to send the usual out'. Mindless beekeeping ... gulped up by unthinking beekeepers ...
And often way behind what the rest of us have discovered and acted upon.
no you weren't - you quoted post #19 then put your reply
I keep getting mental images of almonds with milking machines attached chewing contentedly on sweet haylage as they are undergoing milking on a carousel.Certainly not - only the best for mine - organic non GM oat milk or, as a treat almond milk
I wonder why they call it almond milk rather than Nut Juice?
Thanks - edited now
I was 'stolen' out of Wales at age 5 (for stolen read 'Dad had to move to England looking for work in 1959' and I couldn't get back to my own land until I was in my own long trousers (and married ). Nothing to do with Nationalism but Hiraeth and the 22 years I lived in the Cotswolds (okay, so it wasn't that bad) I pricked up my ears at every Welsh accent and song - Bread of Heaven brought tears to my eyes then and - to be honest - still does! As always I was here trawling for the great info and wisdom that lays scattered like coins in the green grass (and for the many smile-making comments) but this forum gives soooo much more besides. Thanks everyone. PS - my visit today was regarding when to super two single BB colonies and when to move two strong nucs into their own BBs - my visits here - - in the words of Dylan Thomas 'Under Milk Wood' - - Very enjoyable 
Doesn't everybody?I keep getting mental images of almonds with milking machines attached chewing contentedly on sweet haylage as they are undergoing milking on a carousel.
Tune composed by John Hughes but the words were by the great William Williams Pantycelyn, who farmed Pantycelyn Farm, not that far away from me, near Llanymddyfri, in fact his descendants still have the farm and I'm familiar with some of them (one buys honey from me)Mine too
I have seen some flowering now
