Recent content by sean_0

I've got one of these: Thermostatic Uncapping Tray Stainless Steel - COLLECTION ONLY which our operation has outgrown. Still in excellent condition, lovely bit of kit. Based in North Cork Please contact me with any enquiries and I can whatsapp pictures etc. Thanks!

I was one of the lucky people who won a copy of the book from Steve's blog. It's wonderful, a totally unique publication which will be of interest to everyone on this forum. The first two interviews alone with Murray MacGregor and Mike Palmer are worth the price of the book. Learning from such...

Ridgeway sell 8x4 sheets for €20 excl VAT, another €15 for delivery. Based in Meath. Can't post the link but google Ridgeway beekeeper mesh.

A source for this information is "Bee Sex essentials" by Larry Connor. I don't have the book with me right now but I will take a look when I can. Off the top of my head I think the figure for number of sperm released is about 6. I think there's also some info on this in the webcast by Dr. David...

I wish!! We get the first one at a discounted price and then pay the same as everybody else for the rest. Though having a monostrained area means we can breed true to type from our own stocks with no trouble.

Though I haven't seen it myself, I have heard anecdotes from several beekeepers of queens "playing dead" after being handled. In all of those cases she was up and laying on the next inspection. Don't assume she's dead just yet

Actually that's a supplementary text to the book poly hive mentioned though it is where you will find the morphometric standards for the dark european bee. "Breeding techniques and selection" is well worth purchasing though. Like Hooper's book, it's one you keep going back to and finding...

Yes I can also testify to quick, efficient service from buzzy bee shop. Big thumbs up from me.

I assume you would knock out both bees and queen? Saw something like that on a youtube video of a big south american queen breeding operation, interesting. edit: found it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xxe3mV04kfM&feature=related , actually they were using cells but worth a watch anyway

As far as I can remember Ruttner says 8km in "Breeding techniques and selection for breeding the honeybee". However this was in conjunction with flooding the mating apiary with desirable drones.

Standard practice for introducing virgin queens into mini nucs in my local breeding group is to pop the wet queen into the mini nuc and then dump the cupful of wet bees in on top of her. However this is done on a fairly large scale and success rate is about 70%, so with your one queen you might...