I am to buy a sublimox varroa oxalic acid vaporiser. The best price i can find is from £349. Is this around the right price or can they be got cheaper... Thanks
As a bit of a trial this year i gave about 20 Paynes nucs a riser and then a full bag of fondant and also a bag of Candipolline gold. The Candipolline was just about completely gone before they started on the Fondant. So the bees seem to prefer it and at €4 a bag if it just gets one extra nuc...
in the last 6 years we are after having two bad autumns and long drawn out cold springs with little or no pollen coming in for about 7 months and a lot of colonies were that small that it took all year for them to build up again, so a candypollen for €4 is cheap if its gets them through the...
that have only got the one bag as i was trying to judge when it would run out and the first of the natural pollen would start coming in. A few have got the second bag but as soon as there is enough natural pollen i will take it away from them
Strongest hive so far has just gone on to 8 frames of brood. A two year old breeder queen that was on the heather in August and got no autumn treatment at all, but fumigation in early January then Candipollen in late January and is in a Donegal bees national poly hive. Weather is to turn back...
my bees are dark Irish natives and when ever they mate out to imports, i can see over the course of the year a big difference in the % of the yellow banding in that colony. anything for 10% to 30% and back to nearly pure looking again.