Recent content by fian

I live on the other side of Spain, with a climate much more British than the sunny Mediterranean coast. In Almería or Valencia you can find many beekeepers and any of them can sell you seasonal nuclei (generally they are ordered a year in advance) and it is very important that they have the...

I do, not blindly, but accept that you have seen that cloud of small bees. After solving the perception problem, it is a matter of getting into the hive. Every time you open you should collect three nurse bees, ideally as young as possible, and another three forage bees in the bee hole. Measure...

https://medlineplus.gov/spanish/genetica/entender/rasgos/height/ Bridging the gap between a bee and a person. I would accept Wilco's theory, although there is also a certain genetic component, I say this with knowledge since a long time ago I acquired some small bee hives and some of them still...

He had assumed that he was watching them from the window of his house. Now, since it was at a distance of 0.5m and keeping the proportion, it would be able to distinguish variations of more than 0.74 mm, so if its usual bees measure around 13.5 mm, the small ones should measure less than...

Beach sand and fertilizer in equal parts and sawdust on top for the seedbeds.

Taking into account that normal visual acuity corresponds to line 8 of the Snellen test, that is, discerning a letter enclosed in a 8.86 mm square at a distance of 20 feet. Additionally, on line 6 the letter would be a square with a side of 13.3mm (which is a value close to the length of a...

I would move everything to a fertilization nucleus, to this I would add some shaken nurses from one of the other hives and/or a comb with closed brood that is as dark as possible (with a couple of days left to emerge). I will never be able to understand that someone tries to get rid of a queen...

Cannibalism by the workers occurs as a consequence of the difference in composition of the cuticle as it develops, therefore the fact that this has not occurred in the larval stage only indicates that the capacities of the nurses are lower than those of the larvae. common and it is known that...

Diploid drone offspring, the nurses eliminate them naturally by cannibalizing them to reuse the proteins/energy. You should count the empty cells to calculate the vacancy %. You should locate a beekeeper nearby (more than 5 km from your apiary), buy a swarm or a queen to increase the...

"the Honey-buzzard's preference for secluded mature woodland and secretive behavior..." I was going for this to respond to Karol. https://www.lincsbirdclub.co.uk/site/index.php/information/lbc-articlebloglist/33-honey-buzzards-in-lincolnshire...

Sorry, but I don't give an opinion on what I don't know, I prefer to search and let those who know give theirs. If you don't feel like reading it, I'll summarize it for you, the buzzard is a woodland habitat bird, perhaps that's why its migration area is the North Sea coast with some summer...

https://www.bto.org/understanding-birds/birdfacts/honey-buzzard

I repeat, there is no report of a honey buzzard attack on an apiary, another thing is a wild hive (but those have not been eradicated by varroa due to the lack of treatment?), which does not represent an economic loss for a beekeeper; Therefore, in ecological terms it is very effective (it is so...

It would be such a bad idea that since the VV invasion, the number of breeding pairs of Pernis apivorus has increased, consolidating Galicia as a stable base for this species compared to the rest of Spain. You can try to laugh at me, but nature always finds a way to restore errors.

So everyone can do what they want, a rehash of the previous guide. This is the national plan that Karol was talking about?