Recent content by joctcl

I haven't been posting around here for nearly 12 months and a quick scan and 3 or 4 threads in I find you appear looking for advice again in 2015 for what is a repeat car crash of 2014. In your defence you represent a lot of beekeepers I know and that have left through frustration as their busy...

this is my third year with a crown board like that and it works well. I have a hole in it which is 3 bee spaces and use a super with kingspan cut exactly to shape to fill the super. In the middle over the hole I have a transparent inverted takeaway container full with fondant throughout the...

why do you need to take out the bits at the back usually thats on the outside at the back?. Better to leave alone and just put your heater in base ledge.

Honesty box with CCTV sign beside it.

I'm with jbm, better to leave them to their own devices as they will always drink from a cruddy pool in preference to provided drinking troughs. I see my girls drinking off the muddy drive after rain and "sucking" moss instead of clear pools beside them, must be one of their 5 a day.

not unheard of he squeezing through or being dragged. Why does she want to be there in the first place, are you stores locked below?

I would go out them make them a peace offering, apologise and promise them you will never do that again. You are the bigger man for sharing, thankyou, and we have all made bo-bo s over the years. My first year of beekeeping I thought I killed them all in June as there was a load heaped on the...

Allow C02 Out and stop bacteria getting in, you should have the water sterile so a campden tablet set on the top after she starts bubbling or use vodka instead.

Since Oliver has gone to bed What temp was your honey mix did you pitch your packet of yeast at? It needs to be ideally 18-22C as does your room fermentation temperature. If it was over 30 you killed your yeast. Its not too late tho just let the temperature of the mead get down to the ideal and...

So its not just the bees that have funny temperament this time of year then! Come on Vramin don't be an @rse you are absolutely right "there are a number of people on this forum who are arrogant, rude, dismissive ego-maniacs" but these guys are like the guard bees and are here for our protection...

You describe them as being possessed, have you ruled out all the other causes that could be annoying them?

yes to both

+1

Sitting in Dark watching Westminster Abbey Service on BBC2, very moving.

It should have been supplied with one where did you buy it!