Depends where you are ... if you want to take hives the the New Forest heather it's strictly controlled by permits and the sites are designated where you can site your bees and spaces allocated. Been a disaster by all accounts this year .... no rain down here for nearly two months in some areas and what there has been was not enough to dampen the top half inch of soil.
There wasn't a name for it ....
banking is what you do to a coal fire to keep it in all night.
A shovel full of nutty sleck (slack) was what we chucked on our coal fires when we banked them up at night when I was a kid in Yorkshire ...
Doesn't that just look lovely
if it's within three miles, they'll fly to it - got colonies at the home apiary who have filled a super within a week - the nearest heather (scrappy growth well nearer than the good stuff) is 1.9 miles away
Wow that is absolutely beautiful, a work of art
I had a colony drop 7 thousand mites over a month of vapes one year. In desperation I put Apivar on after the last drop was still high. The colony survived quite happily. The explanation was that the bees were bringing home mites from a collapsing colony somewhere. I’ll see if I can find the thread.
Thank you
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