Bad luck Adam, that is a gutter.
Unless you keep your bees in the garden and can constantly watch them, if wasps do become a problem it can all be over before you know it. I suppose it’s just part of beekeeping. If it was easy, everyone would do it.
I removed my English feeders full of the last of the wax cappings this afternoon and shook out any remaining bees. Had left them on longer than intended but interestingly the bees had cleaned them off but not bothered to rework the wax into sculptures as they sometimes do if you leave on too long earlier in the autumn. One to remember maybe - but of course the next year I only put on late it will be freezing cold, they will be clustered and they will totally ignore them...
Another nice fermenting bin of wax to melt down, a process I find particularly satisfying. Although I am less good at finding an end use for the wax apart from for foundation swaps.
Unless you keep your bees in the garden and can constantly watch them, if wasps do become a problem it can all be over before you know it. I suppose it’s just part of beekeeping. If it was easy, everyone would do it.
I removed my English feeders full of the last of the wax cappings this afternoon and shook out any remaining bees. Had left them on longer than intended but interestingly the bees had cleaned them off but not bothered to rework the wax into sculptures as they sometimes do if you leave on too long earlier in the autumn. One to remember maybe - but of course the next year I only put on late it will be freezing cold, they will be clustered and they will totally ignore them...
Another nice fermenting bin of wax to melt down, a process I find particularly satisfying. Although I am less good at finding an end use for the wax apart from for foundation swaps.