pargyle

Exactly what I have - I have two Old Castle jackets and they are very good. The Simon suits I bought were very good value when he...

I am currently using a castle farm jacket and never had a sting through it, zips seem good too. I bought a simon the beekeeper defender...

Not in the apiary but not far from it .. got my Burco boiler going and spent a few quiet hours cleaning the frames I had rescued from my...

For the hardy few with the patience of a saint ...:)

I've found that, whilst they do store honey above the brood nest they also make full frames of stores to the outside of the brood area...

I'm surprised our local resident bee farmer is not peddling his wares there ...

It just goes to show how much variation there is from area to area - and the effect local influences have on plants in their vicinity...

Goodness ... that cotoneaster is early, mine is not even in bud yet - normally flowers in the second half of May here. My lilac tree is...

I moved double brood hives + supers a few years ago at this time of year. I was blessed with a cold wet day with no bee flight and no...

Butane cylinders not available at Tesco in NI. But the Pargyle suggestion of Fame valley stores provide a cylinder by post. Thanks P. I...

Welcome - hopefully you will find the forum a mine of information and innovation that you won't find in the bee books .. always...

Very carefully - it's your back you need to worry about. Have you got a hive barrow ? Ideally you want some means of transporting...

Who is going then ? I'll be there as I have permission from 'er indoors to go and bid for a pair of shears and some welders gloves...

:iagree: I've got stacks of poly nucs, all painted with garden shades, never primed, just given two coats when new, never been a sign of...

Probably intended to increase the number of drones in the area - Parthenogenesis (I knew there would be the benefit of a classical...