Recent content by jarmo henttu

How do I know which is susceptible? My uncles are all dead.

I have had that virus 30 years, and now it is rare or vanished. Every queen breeder try to get it off from their genepool.

Get a new queen if you are able. And stop playing that "waiting game". You have healthy hives and that one sick. It tells that reason is in genes.

Buy a new queen. Only way to get ridd of it.

Makes no sense those shallow bowls. Take care that the hive has two full frame of food all the time. It means 5 kg sugar. Give it with feeding box. It takes two day when bees suck the juice.

And what is tge reason to dry and wet wethers... Above Russia we have often hontinental high pressure. Wethwrs are sunny and clear. Air is hot. Then we have Atlantic low pressures an moist air. The hot East European high pressures collide with cool atlantic low pressures and it generates...

The honey yield depends on pastures, how easily bees get they honey load from flowers. Second, the more beehives the less honey from pastures. I may leave my hive into the cottage yard, and I get 30 kg honey. Then I may move the hive 20 km away go the special place and I get 120 kg kg honey...

Only 60 years.

Well. South Finland has been very dry 3 summers. At same 400 kilometres to North rains have been huge. On average everything has bee normal. .

If the hive gas a new queen, do uput get there mating weathers. Over 20C and sunny calm wether during 3 days.

You should get such bee population which is immune to EFB

How the climate change has changed British weather in 10 years?

I think that it is your best hive and you are going to spoil its development. Two combs is not padgen split. Then from where you get another laying queen. 2 combs and laying queen means nothing for the development of forager bees. Your calculation are far from practical. The padgen method...

This this time of year I would take it as a swarming cell. I have met several hives, which has started very early with one or two and then have appered about 10 queen cells.

Bees use to fly against window towards the sun. Move the car to such place that bees can fly away via open window. If some bees die inside the car, that is not a big problem. Normally 2000 bees die during one day