I highly recommend acupuncture from a specialist. I had sciatica for 7 or 8 crippling months and nothing was helping and as a last-ditch attempt I tried acupuncture. I went in thinking this was a waste of time and money but I came out walking straight. Incredible.
My wife and I were called out to Gainsborough's House (the museum of artist Thomas Gainsborough) for a swarm the other day, but did we get offered a free Gainsborough painting? No.
Often! I'm paranoid though, so I strap mine when driving just in case I need to brake hard. Don't want the lid inadvertently coming off!
Might get a bit more capping over happening from the bees though, rather than their constant demands for more supers.
Bit mental, isn’t it?
My family refers to the M&Ms shop there as “hell on earth”. People seem to lose all rationality in there. It’s the ultimate embodiment of humanity at its lowest.
annoying, isn't it?
Genuinely don't know about the colour of Blackthorn honey. We never really get a decent enough monocrop of it here to be able to tell.
That's fast. Are they on anything specific?
Nothing swarms love more than old, dark, creepy-looking frames. It’s like crack to them. It’s precisely why we always keep some old frames back from the melting pot. Swarms can’t resist them. Always have 1 in a bait hive.
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I'm aware of about 6 or 7 swarms that members of our BKA have collected around Suffolk this week. Certainly with our bees, who we haven't boosted, we're looking at some *very* crowded (14x12) hives that either need supering or splitting, or both. This spring seems to have caught us off-guard.
Yea, the trick is getting it off the hive and into buckets fast, and then you’ve got some amazing honey for soft-set/creamed, which is what we do with it.
Is no fatalities a usual thing you need to report at these meetings?
Feels like it! It’s caught me by surprise to be fair. Not as ready as I should be, although supers are all ready to whack on. What a change a week makes. Hawthorne & bird cherry are also at full bloom and full of bees.
Supers went on for a number of our hives in Suffolk today. OSR fields now noticeably yellow, with forecast if 18° by end of the week. Action stations.
Yea, drones are flying here, several swarms reported in the county today. I’d prefer OSR wasn’t out actually, give me a bit more time. All overwintered nucs over-populated today, had to upgrade a number to hives and put brood extensions on others.
We're starting inspections today. OSR is out, hives are brimming over, swarm reports in the locality have started. 0-60 in 3 seconds. Was going to wait another week or so, but it seems the time is now, here at least.
That's actual footage of *one* of our hives that I'll be requeening in April. They're dastardly and mean. I'm sure they've put up a photo of me inside the hive to use as sting practice.
Dandelions! (only seen one or two peeping through at moment)
Same.
ah yea, not available in the UK.
Thank you, thank you. (Takes a bow). I've got a lot of bees' names to remember to thank. (takes out a large stack of memo cards from dinner jacket inside pocket)
Mines using an Inkbird itc-1000 with 2 pc fans and 3 tube heaters. Works pretty well.
Oo, Wotcha using as a controller there? Inkbird?
As kids, during the summer hols my brother and I would sit at home on our own whilst our parents went to work. To alleviate our boredom my mum would rent us movies from a bloke who ran a counterfeit VHS rental club. He was the brother of Scotland and Liverpool's greatest soccer hero of all time.
I can't say, but I will let you know it is so VERY pedestrian.
Every year I get a cheque from Alan Moore to pay into my bank account.
This was a guy with 50+ hives who really should have known better also.
