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Proper home made beefburgers with fried onions and chips, followed by a real rice pudding ... the pudding needs about another fifteen...

All the above shenanigans is the kind of heavy duty lifting, shifting, shunting and cutting I'm not up for....... but... and bear with...

I don't plan on using it - I've ordered sufficient frames and foundation not to. But that doesn't mean that part of me doesn't see it as...

And ten foundations cut to national size come to 746g I make that 74.6g a sheet, or about 13 1/2 sheets per kilo

These are my lovely battered old herring plates

Interestingly if the bees manage to restrict mites to a single foundress female in a cell then they will slow mite evolution/adaptation...

I think this sort of co-evolution (seen in all predator-prey relations) has to be viewed as a change in both.

That is interesting, if the bees really uncap cells with more mites then it makes sense, I can't help being sceptical it's been...

It doesn't really matter whether it's a causal effect created by the bees selectively culling mites as a result of evolution or learned...

I don’t know if BN means this but if you google low fecundity varroa there’s quite a bit.

It's hard to see how that could be correct as bees don't have sex chromosomes.

lifts are used to describe the outer casings of a WBC hive - but obviously not in this case

There have been several studies looking at the negative effects of some commonly used chemical type miticides/Varroacides on the Queens’...

By culling I was only meaning the genetic line ie the queen, though treatment at that point might also be appropriate. Could then also...

Surely if you were of a mind to do that then you'd just requeen from a "better-performing" colony? James