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There is no silver bullet... But selectively breeding stronger mites and propping up weak bees by chemical treatments is no way to move forward... Look at Seeley's findings on the bees in Ithaca (Cornell has article on their site) ..with the right selective pressure bees will squeeze thru that...

Pollen is like sauerkraut so perhaps they entomb it if the fermentation takes it past what they consider good for them... I have yet to see that, I will need to keep an eye out! Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk

Unfortunately you're unlikely to get long-term funding for such a project. Also my cubit is different from your cubit and that is how bees build comb - the measurements they use are from their own bodies, which us beekeepers have controlled for over a hundred years, so it will take a while...

Perhaps I have advantages that I forgot to mention: -I run rose OSB's (and although they are a 'national' frame) they aren't as deep therefore less chance of comb getting messed up & no need to wire or any of that carry on -I have always kept a small spirit level in my bee toolkit to level...

Achieving small cells with 35mm spacing is a no go as it is what they have been working with for years... I trimmed all my sidebars down so that now the spacing between midribs will be 32mm ...I will let you know how that goes. For those saying small cell is a myth, yes it isn't a silver bullet...

Decent wee cobbled together system anyone could set up :: http://youtu.be/Wzkxq7qGqxQ

not nonsense.. just not the silver bullet people are always searching for... there isnt one, just a whole natural system that needs to be working together and letting drone cells be drone sized and worker be nbatural worker is part of it.

Counting varroa is not the point... I refuse to partake in that. I dont count nosema spores or acarine mites but I do take note when symptoms appear just in case action is required. The point in not treating is to let the natural microbial balance within the hive stabilise and then start...

Bees build parallel combs so starter strips will form nice straight natural comb as long as they have a guide ie. Placed between 2 drawn out combs or full sheets of foundation. If using it for swarm control keep an eye that they don't just pack it with nectar as that tells you they are really in...

Most bees at the right time, doing the right thing= more honey Loads of bees during a nectar drought = sad beekeeper ___________________________________ brothermoo.wordpress.com

Sometimes they just want a ladder in place to make it easier to get onto the combs (and handy cells to offload) ___________________________________ sent from my smartphone.. although it doesn't filter my not-so-smart comments

Lol A brief reading of this forum will in fact show a direct correlation between complaints/gripes/aggression and the user status! Not in all cases I admit but a snorted in my tea at your post drstitson

If you did run a swarm into a stack of boxes I suspect you would see them start their broodnest right in the top box and it would gradually expand downward and at the same time honey would be placed above in the vacated cells, thus why we super. Some like to nadir, but that is just to allow the...

If you have access to a mated queen then you didn't panic you thought on your feet. If you don't have a queen or chance of getting one mated in your area I would suggest double brood for now then there is plenty of space for her majesty to lay and when you can get a queen you just need to split...

Watched the varroa one today, very interesting stuff. Of course Mike Palmer is a legend any of his vids are good for a watch or three! ___________________________________ sent from my smartphone.. although it doesn't filter my not-so-smart comments