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Hi Is anyone here from Medway Beekeepers? I'm trying to join but struggling to make contact Cheers

The world of bees seems small so who is stealing them and who is buying them? It's all odd.

I love this idea. Can you imagine how much you would soil your suit if you was trying to steal bees at night and when you opened them there was a flashbang.

Finding another place is not going to be an option. Its taken nearly a year to find this place

Well there is a ww2 museum near the site, I will ask if they have any left overs. I do think they have a tank, I will ask if they can point it directly at the hives

I might put one of those ipod tracker things in the roof. At least if they go

Morning I've found a place to keep my 3 beehive, it on an allotment near me. Last year the person who used to keep bees in thr same place had all their hives stolen in the night. So before I set my girls up is there anything/anyway to stop it happening again? I was thinking of padlocked...

PIR insulation? The stuff to insulate walls?

That makes sense. The metal is hard wearing, the felt would rip. I will put metal on the roof then

afternoon I'm building some national beehives and I was wondering why they have metal roofs. I was going to put shed felt on mine unless I'm missing something. cheers

Hi My friend says he has a bee/wasp nest in his garage that he wants me to get rid off. He is about an hours drive so i asked him to send me a picture however i cant tell if its a bee or a wasp, Im leaning to wasp but happy to be wrong.

My bees are running low and i want to give them some fondant but all the delivery dates are for late next week and I'm nervous that it might be to late then. Is there something i can use in the mean time? Thanks

Went down to check on my hives yesterday and one of them has been completely destroyed by wasps. It was a weak hive anyway but still would of made it through the winter. So my question is do i take out all the frames and burn them?

Afternoon all I am doing a favour of a friends mum. she has a wasp nest underground in her garden. I said i will get rid of it for her. So i was just wondering if my full suit is wasp proof? My bees have never stung me through it but i dont know much about wasps. Any ideas? Cheers

I don't think they need vorroa but i worry and they do need feeding as I'm about to take the honey (yes i know its late)

Morning all I have been away from my hives for the last 2 months and I'm playing catch up with my hives. Im going to start to feeding them in the next couple of day and was wondering if i can kill two birds with one stone an treat them for varroa as well? Or have i missed the boat for both...

Hi I have 3 hives at the moment on one site 2 are doing really well, however every time i go and check them one of them seems to have fewer and fewer bees in each time. I can't see any eggs, i can't find a queen. What would be my best course of action to get it back to normal?

My house backs onto a graveyard. Its one of those wood land burial places with loads of wild and some very formal areas. I've set up a hive at the back of my garden, the honey i get is just for me and the family. However my wife has already said she will not eat it because its creepy. I think...

I bought a XXL suit and its really baggy and Ive not got stung through that yet even when the bees have really tried to.

Ok then metal it is. Cheers for the help