Markthebuilder

Air course would work well with your underfloor but they use a lot of electricity so you need to offset that with solar. If people think...

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If you look ar the likely amount of residual "treated" stores, take into account the length of time elapsed, and the dilution, I...

This is of interest...

Though if left on over winter with little other stores it would only be the equivalent to some stores remaining in a treated brood box...

Not an unreasonable assumption considering they were left on as short on stores.

Surely they ate the stores and then refilled them with fresh honey this season?

Lesson learnt

Even a cardboard box in the original site with a bit of old comb inside filled with syrup is enough to fool them once they have robbed...

By moving you’ve also removed the older flyers and guard bees. It’s done though remove syrup close down to tiny entrance .

Hopefully the fact I waited untill after dark to move it ment all flyers were home but take your point about removeing syrup and...

Thank you all for comments, Haveing thought it through I decided not to sugar role due to probability of young unmarked queens only...

I planned to sugar role this weekend to get a base line for numbers and then start treating. I am concerned about the level of stores...

So moved into new house end of June and moved my 3 hives there , they were doing extremely well to say I had pretty much left them to...

No not wrong a sugar wash may only release about 50% of mites from the bees if you give them a general role [notshake]. So double the...