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  1. yesbut
    What are the 7 boxes full of ?
  2. yesbut
    As far as I know Titoki isn't a nectar producer. The fruit is good bird fodder.
  3. yesbut
    I harvested a number of old brood frames last year, using varroa mesh as a filter. This honey I'd happily describe as raw.
  4. yesbut
    Looks like a Wool Carder Bee. if it's chasing other insects away, it'll be a male.
  5. yesbut
    Pass. You might be more tempted to go for a cruise with a big stick ?
  6. yesbut
    I'm sure they used to, but now they're staying in China.
  7. yesbut
    So does mine, after last year.
  8. yesbut
    I hadn't thought of doing so but i could.
  9. yesbut
    Well that was in March, now is now and the consultation is happening, a good time to raise the issue in the press.
  10. yesbut
    You need to get a good journalist to do a feature in the local rag. One way of getting this ball rolling is to contact the press with a "media release", with enough meat in it to encourage a reporter to contact you.
  11. yesbut
    A good thing surely, if it makes a few recalcitrant beeks rattle their dags.
  12. yesbut
    The yesbut easy beekeeping method would be to petrol the troublesome hive and be done with it.
  13. yesbut
    Luddite
  14. yesbut
    The best time of day would probably be quite inconvenient for you.....getting home at midnight....
  15. yesbut
    Yes because she gets bonked by virus laden drones.
  16. yesbut
    Varroa sensitive hygiene....the bees are better at finding & killing mites.
  17. yesbut
    Short answer, they've got to gather somewhere. As long as there's plenty of healthy eggs/brood and bees covering it, things are sweet.
  18. yesbut
    Speaking of which is @glynn still around ?
  19. yesbut
    Page 142 of your "Practical beekeeping in NZ " !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  20. yesbut
    Central Nth Is can be as much a freezing miserable hole as anywhere else.
  21. yesbut
    And Queens can lay virus laden eggs too.
  22. yesbut
    Blimmin flax is going great guns, darn it. Never noticed an overlap here between flax & kanuka. I'm sure the kanuka is on time, so flax must be late. Orrible tasting flax muck, right up there with rata.
  23. yesbut
    Yes that's why I mentioned...
  24. yesbut
    I did recently notice about a dozen Comvita hives sitting in the middle of a large valley of close to bursting Manuka in the Motu.
  25. yesbut
    This is sooooo last month !
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