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cab



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PostPosted: Wed Jun 29, 05 8:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Bagpuss? Are you reading this? Shall we set up a bee hive this way in your garden? I think it sounds great!

bagpuss



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PostPosted: Wed Jun 29, 05 8:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

While bees are very interesting and nice I don't want a bee hive in the back garden, especially so close to the house and when both our neighbours have children

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PostPosted: Wed Jun 29, 05 11:31 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

If the queen moves to the hive you could then move the whole hive to somewhere or someone else who has the room.

tahir



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PostPosted: Wed Jun 29, 05 12:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Well done Cab, that's a new high in foraging

mochyn



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PostPosted: Wed Jun 29, 05 12:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Looks like that link could be really useful, Sally: we have bees nesting in the roof each summer (the b ats are at the other end). I'll have to show the old chap, but it looks much less expensive than conventional bee-keeping. And, yes, if we try it, we'll provide an article...

Bugs



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PostPosted: Wed Jun 29, 05 12:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

mochyn wrote:
And, yes, if we try it, we'll provide an article...


Ah, we have trained you well, young Mochyn

mochyn



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PostPosted: Wed Jun 29, 05 12:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Am I eliglible for a Young Apprenticeship now?

tahir



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PostPosted: Wed Jun 29, 05 12:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    


cab



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PostPosted: Wed Jun 29, 05 12:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

bagpuss wrote:
While bees are very interesting and nice I don't want a bee hive in the back garden, especially so close to the house and when both our neighbours have children


Might be something to consider if your landlords don't find a way of shifting them for you. I agree you want them away from the doorway there... I don't know the legalities here.

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PostPosted: Wed Jun 29, 05 1:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

If you want to move them, then now is a good time to act as they will be tight for space. Try putting a makeshift skep (old waste paper basket perhaps??) on top, cover it well with straw so its nice and dark, and hopefully they will expand into it from the damaged part. With luck, in a month or two the queen will have gradually moved up into the new roomy accommodation, and a local beekeeper will probably happily take them away for you.

Nanny



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PostPosted: Wed Jun 29, 05 1:47 pm    Post subject: wild honey Reply with quote
    

i must say cab that you sound a bit intrepid .....

well done - you can't just let them buzz off now...........you have to collect them and start your own hive surely...............

as someone said -the ultimate in foraging really.........

cab



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PostPosted: Wed Jun 29, 05 1:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Nanny, Sally, it's not my garden, it's Bagpuss's. So what happens to them is down to their landlord. And while keeping bees looks REALLY cool, I haven't the space, and I don't think they're permitted on our allotment plots

Nanny



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PostPosted: Wed Jun 29, 05 2:12 pm    Post subject: wild honey Reply with quote
    

that my dear is a great shame as your non-smiley face seems to tell me...

cab



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PostPosted: Wed Jun 29, 05 2:51 pm    Post subject: Re: wild honey Reply with quote
    

Nanny wrote:
that my dear is a great shame as your non-smiley face seems to tell me...


Oh, I'd relish the opportunity to keep bees. But realistically, there's a lot of kit involved, and a certain set-up cost, and a lot of space... It's probably just not a good idea right now. But maybe as a means of removing the bees to a safer part of Bagpuss's garden this could be a goer.

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PostPosted: Wed Jun 29, 05 3:53 pm    Post subject: Re: wild honey Reply with quote
    

cab wrote:
[ But maybe as a means of removing the bees to a safer part of Bagpuss's garden this could be a goer.


That was what I meant- not everyone has the desire to keep bees, but it may be an easy way to shift em without stress for Bagpuss or the bees, and very interesting to watch them while they sort themselves out too

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