That's a great video wee willy.
I reckon manually marking a queen is one of those landmark events for beekeepers … in no particular order of merit (though this is often the order they happen in)
Your first honey
Your first swarm
Your first grafted queen
Your first queen picked up, marked and safely returned
I still remember the first one I marked like that … I was really chuffed. Of the next two, one flew off never to be seen again and the other was balled
Would this pipe work?
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Depends what you put in it.Originally Posted by snimmo243
Would this pipe work?
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A quote from a purvayor of fine herbs and prescribed chemicals;
"I don't advise a haircut, man. All hairdressers are in the employment of the government. Hair are your aerials. They pick up signals from the cosmos and transmit them directly into the brain. This may be the reason bald-headed men are uptight.
Relax, man, find your neutral space. You got a rush. It will pass. Be seated."
A natural beekeeper me'thinks !
I believe that the main problem with using that type of queen catcher is the difficulty you have in seeing the queen.Would this pipe work?
Or, for that matter, the hive
And here I am in Haddington to blether about bees and the internet. Anyone out there in cyberland want to say anything to the beekeepers of East Lothian? We'll stop by here again later on in the talk .....
If you want to see what East Lothian beekeepers look like, try the 'Communications' thread where I put a picture of them when I was last here.
Bee flowers out on the way here - willows, still some hazel, blackthorn is out, rape is extending but is still a couple of weeks away.
G.
Last edited by gavin; 28-03-2014 at 01:38 PM. Reason: all fingers and thumbs standing up side-on to the laptop and in front of an audience
Might be too late to partake and I'm not sure I have anything other than "hello" to say , but with a bit of notice id like to join these.
I've just left work so not in mission control for another 20 minutes or so.
On the off chance I'm not too late, I am signed into Skype
Many thanks Neil, it was great to chat and introduce the East Lothian beekeepers to you. That's me just back.
Good fun and nice to see everyone. I think you should make this regular and have a few standard items in future that you could ask/talk about with the next willing victim.
Great suggestion. I'll do that next time - if there is one. One more talk in May before I hang up the digital projector until the autumn, but that one's on bee communication I think.
I'd be cautious about assuming a signal for internet access unless I've tried it in the hall, or remember the spot well enough to rely on the 3mobile signal predictions from their maps. Some halls are in basements and some are in spots where the signal strength is low already, but with these mobile WiFi gizmos you can take them off the leash and sometimes find a spot in the room that catches a signal, running them off their battery for the talk.
PS And I should ditch that &%!$£ Windows 8 Skype and get back to a version with proper controls!
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