Recent content by MasMassive

If it is EFB, I would not have to declare it (I'm in France). Le Traité Rustica de l'Apicuteur (bee bible) tells me I can disinfect all the frames by soaking them for half an hour in a solution of 5.5l water, 250ml bleach and 30ml of Teepol then spinning in extractor before leaving to dry...

I treated them with varromed (first time I used it as I always used apivar until now). I'll treat the new colony. Do you really think it is EFB? Doesn't that put the new swarm at risk too?

Please can you give me some advice? This is a 2 year old colony which is now failing. There isn't a queen and today I killed 2 wax moth larvae. Should I introduce a new queen or do the colony look too feeble? If the latter is the case, what would you do to save the bees or if all else fails...

Eric, my daughters and I will sleep well tonight. Thanks for taking the time to link the other discussions

That’s what I thought too. My question is really about the apivar and how much it tainted the honey. No super on when I treated but when I harvested the honey there was a super and not thinking about Apivar I put honey from super with honey from hive frames. I guess that diluted it. Also Apivar...

I have just lost a colony to wax moth. It was a colony I caught in Spring 2022 and which was always rather feeble . I nurtured it through winter and hoped it would pick up this spring but about a fortnight ago no more bees, only the dreaded moth. I immediately removed the hive from the apiary...

Well done apiculteur or apicultrice depending on gender. There’s a whole lexicon as you might imagine!

MDR! Can we say départements beginning with A? I’m in the Aude

Thanks, in the Aude between Carcassonne and Toulouse

Hi I'm a beekeeper based in the south of France. Been an <<apicultrice>> for about 5 years, as a hobby, and have 2 - 3 hives. We are not in the area hit by heatwave this year although last year was dreadful and the harvest severely reduced because of it. We also have a big problem with asian...