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Personally I would take ‘unimproved’ over Buckfast any day. To each their own
I listened to a regen-ag podcast recently where a...
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If it’s not big numbers of queens you need I think a two frame nuc is the way to go.
An apidea can fill with brood quickly once a queen...
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I don’t have big problems with chalk brood. I think selection helps a lot here.
I have some slightly different thoughts on chalk brood...
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Interesting one of my favourite ways is to induce a colony after demaree manipulation then splitting the top box into nucs to finish...
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An older one
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Just to boil it down - if I was working on my own I’d use two frame nucs for sure. Just to buy myself more room to manoeuvre time wise...
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Learning to manage apideas is a bit of a faff. Grafting and raising cells is the easy part in many ways. I guess like anything it will...
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My preferred method of queen rearing is to induce a colony that I am very happy with to produce queen cells. Then distribute the...
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I’m sorry but none of that is accurate. If you read the paper I linked above it looks at some of that information although it is not the...
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It was a terrible year for beekeepers in the part of the north west of Ireland where I live. Really cold overall with a lot of rain and...
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My 2CV van (AK400) works for me. Mine has done sterling service shuttling between workshop to apiaries carrying everything I might need.
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Nice looking little truck.
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I've been looking at these
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Thanks for letting me join this group! I started keeping bees in 1994 and had 900 colonies 10 years ago. I’m aging so stopped...