Recent content by Norton

Because of problems with capensis.

I would leave the super on the hive.

I forgot to mention, the yellow colour is more effective than the other colours.

Take home message: it is effective.

Hahaha, it is often 40+, in the shade, here in the summer, Varroa is a big problem and is not negatively affected.

Well it is HOT here in Cyprus, all we can do is supply clean water sources near the bees.

They appear extremely pyssd off.

Not good at all, check again in 3 days, do not release until they accept the caged queen and after removal of security tabs do not open hive for a week. Of course check and cull cells.

Note that NSAIDs can create a severe allergy to bee stings that lasts from 3 to 6 months after taking medication. Be careful with those pills. (I'm unable to provide a study to support this).

Grafted another 80 cells.

I leave attendants in and check behaviour of receiving colony after 3 days, if aggressive I check again after another 3 days.

Here we are two weeks after the original post. There are a number of dead bees in front of the hive -virus victims?, but as can be clearly seen only a couple of uncapped cells and the bees appear to be very healthy.

I thought it would help to put some things into perspective here. I live in Ormidheia Village in eastern Cyprus. The village is located in a shallow valley near the coast. We have 4 beekeepers in the village parish with about 700 hives in total, most colonies have our genetics. The...

Varroa Sensitive Hygiene, is a developing behaviour in our bees for depressing mite levels. Here are two photographs taken today of a nuc with a queen from one of our own lines. The bees are able to detect the capped brood cells with Varroa mites, they uncap the cells to retard the Varroa...

Leave alone for a week.