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I use Evernote on my phone to take inspection notes and convert to excel at leisure at home.

Thanks Martin, I can always rely on you to hammer home the point. I don't give two hoots what someone else does, I do start to get somewhat peeved when their justification for why their way is better is to make up a bunch of stuff about someone else. Especially if that someone else happens to...

Oh Lordy, it's on again. I'm sorry there's so much tosh going on. Those that want to whinge that 'we're' all having a go at them need only to watch this to understand why. There's a big skep that takes a super, with frames, to harvest honey. But I'm a manipulating git who steals all the honey...

But the reputation of floaty, lispy, crystal lady might have been. Funniest thing I've seen in ages. Next week I hear some creationists are going to explain varroa destructor.

Agree they're worth more as foundation than as wax blocks. The hair dryer works a treat and a spray with syrup from a plant spray bottle as they go into a hive can also encourage bees onto them and start drawing them.

The point is that you can't think that you have EFB, carry out a shook swarm or other treatment, and then inform them after the event so they turn up to inspect frames of foundation, what are they supposed to do? If you think you have a notifiable disease you notify first, treatment comes later.

Agree with everything so far, only other thing I'd add is enjoy yourself, the assessors aren't monsters and aren't out to try and trip you up so don't be afraid to ask them to repeat or clarify something. The FERA booklets on varroa and foul brood are also worth a read as a bit of last minute...

Congratulations!

My last action was going to be to stab the git at the BBKA who signed off their website with mine :D

I had a reasonably bad reaction to a sting last week. While I took myself off to hospital and have subsequently been prescribed an Epipen I still don't think that people that should be trying to carry them as a matter of course. My reaction was fairly bad, but it wasn't anaphylactic and a few...

A question. Why are you only bothered about how much syrup you should feed them? None is the short version, a nuc comes with at least a frame of stores, perhaps two. You can give them maybe half a litre of 1:1 syrup but if it's not tipping it down why bother? I think you should be more...

Nitrile/Latex gloves are protection. That's a million miles removed from the guys with 100% guaranteed bee strain who can inspect wearing a handkerchief round their nadgers and nothing else. Do you need chain mail and those god awful gauntlets? normally no you don't, but people wear them as...

Missed the actual video until now :rolleyes: Thumbs up I reckon. Good talk, nice use of props. We can nitpick on a forum of beekeepers but I think it's a good talk.

My advice first and foremost is talk about what you know. You know beekeeping much more than (hopefully) anyone else in the audience. Don't pretend to be anything you're not or to talk about anything you don't know. Assume that there will be a belligerent beekeeper or two in the audience who'll...

I think muswell makes a very good point. Icing sugar, regardless of what you think of its efficacy, is often put forward as a 'harmless' treatment. It's not without its uses and I keep a box handy, but I no longer use it as a matter of course in my IPM.

Whistles. :) If you run into problems, drop me a line and I'll see what I can do.

And at county level when it comes to assessments :) I certainly wouldn't see it as an insurmountable obstacle. None of the assessors I've spoken to have been ogres either. It's certainly not a case that I arrange an assessment and you either meet that date or you've had it. Circumstances...

Right, had a bit of Clarification, the correspondence courses don't replace the exams or assessments themselves, they're designed purely as distance learning in preparation to take the appropriate exam or assessment. So you still have to go somewhere on the relevant date to sit the actual exam...

Right. Gotcha. You don't have to go to classes though a lot of associations do run study groups, you do normally have to go somewhere to sit the exam and that appears to be where the confusion is coming in. Just found the bit you were looking at and I must admit I know bugger all about the...

Susbees is right (except there's now only 7 Modules, Module 4 no longer exists) The Basic is a practical assessment, about an hour with an assessor, no written part, cost £15. The modules are 1 exam paper each, 7 modules in total, £20 a module. General Husbandry is £40 and takes the form of a...