OT one for the bee keepers

Cool.

Not horribly expensive either. What are the running costs like?

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Not much. I mean, frames are reusable after you've extracted the honey.
You need to feed them in winter - a few quids' worth of sugar a month.

As colonies expand and you split them into two, you need to buy more
hives. And keep adding 'supers': the compartments that contain the honey
bearing frames. They stack on top of each other which is why you
sometimes see these rather tall hives.

And you can flog the honey....

 

"This isn't just honey, this is S&M honey".

 

Think I can handle that.

How often does that happen?

Hmmmm. Very interesting. I'm guessing this is something for next spring?

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The Older Gentleman to:

<snip some excellent advice>

Bookmarked for reading later this afternoon, cheers

 

Depends if you have a healthy colony and they don't swarm... but
certainly you can double your colonies every year, if you want.

 

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various people were chatting about bees etc when ...

Had a look at the suggested website, full of very very useful info that.
Typical though that theres no associations in Beds :-/

From reading around it would seem that Ive picked the wrong time of
year to be interested in this as all the courses etc seem not to be
until spring :-(

 

IIRC it's time to feed them for winter pretty soon anyway, isn't it. So
it's not like you're going to get anything out of a hive at this time of
year.

 

Timo Geusch said:

True, though by the time it comes round to actually doing something ill
have forgotton probably :-/

Anyway, im sure theres something to do with the hive even in winter, if
nothing else the kids would love to get involved in something like this.

 

Wicked Uncle Nigel replied to Donnie

LOL.
re the association, nothing listed on the website suggested by TOG,
though on further googling found a Beds one, im assuming its affiliated
anyway, not that im bothered as such as long as I could learn something
before committing.

****, spot the numpty that couldnt even enter the beginners course yet!

 

So, what are they doing, just hanging out till it warms up?

 

Cuddling up to keep each other warm.

 

Indulging in lesbeean sex. All winter.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Timo Geusch

Exactly that.

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I almost turned the heater on this morning.

 

No it's not. It could be preventing deception.

Why don't you put pictures of heather on your labels?

 

Typo. £3.50/lb

 

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