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  1. Chris Luck

    Honey bees in decline

    The flaw in your argument is that I live and my bees are situated slap in the middle of intensive agriculture with very few villages never mind urban environments in a radius of 50 km. French villages are species poor anyway, the French aren't into gardens in the same way the Brits are. We...
  2. Chris Luck

    Honey bees in decline

    Thanks for that - handy. Chris
  3. Chris Luck

    Honey bees in decline

    I did this for France http://wild-life-in-france.--------.fr/2014/06/honey-bee-populations-in-france-some.html Chris
  4. Chris Luck

    Honey bees in decline

    I'm rather inclined to agree but it does as you imply seem to depend on who one asks. Still interested in any other comments. Chris
  5. Chris Luck

    Honey bees in decline

    Actually the problem with the weather this year in much of France has only really affected the two crops, OSR and Sunflowers which both have relatively short flowering seasons and require specific temperatures and good weather but it needs to be said that if honey yields are going to depend on a...
  6. Chris Luck

    Honey bees in decline

    This is mine. https://www.facebook.com/wildbeekeeper Can I put that? It would be nice if I can, it's Wildlife in France. Chris
  7. Chris Luck

    Honey bees in decline

    Quite so, natural forage in my region is disappearing year on year in fact virtually the only place for miles around with anything other tha crops is my own land. The hedgerows are almost all gone and the roadsides are continually slashed every time a flower dare show itself. Yields across...
  8. Chris Luck

    Honey bees in decline

    I constantly read about honey bees being in decline, huge colony losses etc much of it from apparently reliable sources, latest one to fall in my lap is from INRA, (Institut national de la recherche agronomique), who are Internationally recognised for their independence and high standards of...
  9. Chris Luck

    Just a thought...................

    Well said. Keep it simple. Chris
  10. Chris Luck

    Rosebay Willowherb

    For anyone interested this is the distribution in France and is mostly confined to the higher ground and mountains - or non cultivated land. I suspect it will fit in with my existing land structure, I'll try a few different situations. http://www.tela-botanica.org/bdtfx-nn-82182-repartition...
  11. Chris Luck

    Rosebay Willowherb

    It wasn't introduced on bomb sites, it took advantage of them as what we now call a pioneer species and I was there then. :coolgleamA: Perhaps someone has some first hand experience other than my old mate Finman which although based on first hand experience probably doesn't help me too much. I...
  12. Chris Luck

    Rosebay Willowherb

    I'm probably more calm than you could possibly realise my friend but on the very rare occasion when I ask a question it's because I'm looking for an experienced informed answer. It's why you don't often see me on these places. :icon_204-2: You still haven't said what your personal experience...
  13. Chris Luck

    Just a thought...................

    Hefting works for me. Chris
  14. Chris Luck

    Rosebay Willowherb

    If I was kidding I wouldn't have asked and I'm more than capable of using Google, that's why I specifically asked for actual first hand experience in the UK or France where I live. As it happens as a naturalist that gets around quite a large area I've never seen it growing here although a...
  15. Chris Luck

    Just a thought...................

    I stopped fiddling with them many, many years ago, never do inspections, never use any treatments and guess what? Yup, never have any problems and always have too many colonies despite getting rid of quite a number very year. Chris
  16. Chris Luck

    Rosebay Willowherb

    Has anyone any actual first hand experience of honey bees on Rosebay Willowherb in either the UK or France and whether it produces much of a yield? Cheers, Chris
  17. Chris Luck

    Ivy Honey

    I have only seen some of the solitary bee species use it, mostly the very small types. Chris
  18. Chris Luck

    Ivy Honey

    Strangely it can flower earlier here in south west France than in the UK Chris
  19. Chris Luck

    What did you do in the Apiary today?

    Good luck with what ever you do. Chris
  20. Chris Luck

    strange behaviour

    Adding space is adding space it doesn't alter congestion that affects hive work. Chris
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