Recent content by JamezF

How much were they new? :D https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/176343293079?itmmeta=01HWWCW6FHPD9NSZDZH7992CYK James

'Drizzle Grey' might work quite well at the moment, too. James

On the other hand, some parts of the UK have had way more rain than the long-term average this April. The Met Office have a blog piece about the weather in April. James

That's the kind of statement that requires justification :) James

I saw a heron yesterday, but I wasn't going to climb the telegraph pole to fetch it. James

I wanted to stick with colours that will blend in with the landscape, so as long as I can tell it apart from the green that I use to paint my poly hives with, I reckon it should be fine. James

Couldn't do much today as I went for a job interview that turned out to be further away time-wise than I or my satnav estimated (two hours twenty-five minutes for a sixty-five mile drive; without any particularly bad traffic?!). I did manage to get the last of my bait hive brood boxes fix up...

Dare we ask what you do with yours? James

I suspect it might irritate rather than encourage in a queenright colony. James

Is there anyone who actually attempts to justify why (alleged) supersedure cells might be on the face of the comb? Or why cells on the face of the comb are likely to be for supercedure? If there's a laying queen in the colony, why would supercedure cells be any different from swarm cells (other...

I think it must be pretty much on the limit of the 3km listed in Beebase. I'd left a couple of potential sites in the database that eventually came to nothing which allows me to get a reasonable triangulation of the source (unless of course there is more than one). James

I've just had an email from our SBI (or what looks like another SBI who may be covering our area in addition to her own patch) asking to inspect some of my colonies as they've just found a case of EFB locally :( Can't believe that I've barely got through my first inspections and we're having to...

A new one. James

I have just been out to sort some stuff out in the bee shed. It is cold, breezy and raining. The bees are flying from every hive. Not in huge numbers, certainly, but they're giving it a crack. How hardcore are they? James

Yes, I did think of stencilling some sort of identifier onto the boxes, then decided that perhaps it wasn't that great a plan :D James