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This is a sad mistake. When will we learn that if pesticides hurt the bees and other pollinators it could have have long term health effects on people too.

At least he had the common sense to requeen. Everyone has made an error from time to time. Also as I stated in one of my earlier posts knowledge of what you read is not in the field hands on experience.

I was told by one of our club members that if you dust the bees with a little powdered sugar they'll groom themselves and remove the varoa mites while their cleaning themselves. This works well if you have a mesh bottom the mites fall through it and can not get back into the hive easily.

If you saw no queen cells 5 days ago, I wouldn't expose them to the cold weather and run the chance of chilling them.

Today one of our members with our club came over to transfer our nuc to our langstroth hive, he chose a different method of a smoker. It's a squirt bottle with liquid smoke. I believe this isn't as intrusive to the bees because your not burning anything. Just a thought. Your opinions?

Don't know how long but my club members had different opinions. One said black wax contains a lot of pesticides and should be disposed of, the other said it can be boiled out and leave decent wax. I would need to do further research before I offered my opinion.

Interesting can these books be easily acquired in the United States? Do they have ISBN numbers?

In our club we have two experienced people for collecting swarms. The club members call them if they spot a bee swarm.

Because when I am out checking on them I am going to want to possibly listen to music periodically, and I wanted to know (a) if they'd respond to it, and (b) if they did how they'd respond to it.

I have a Bluetooth speaker, I have been wanting to see how the bees would respond to music. So I took it out today and turned on some Tom Petty. They flew pretty heavy around the speaker, but only one bee landed on it. What's your thoughts or experiences with this?

For my situation it is more practical to find jars here in the States.

Well 200 meters is 600 feet. Six hundred feet is less than a quarter mile from the original location. Recommendation is usually 3 miles. This one is highly risky. You're going to have to determine if you're willing to take that risk.

Hate to say it but in our part of Washington state the temperatures have been between 61 to 74 degrees Fahrenheit the last week or so. Earlier we had a week that was 78 to 88 degrees Fahrenheit but it didn't last. Our bees are out, but they do not enjoy the wind or rain.

Do not treat while brood could be affected, also bear in mind the more chemical treatments you use the more contaminated your wax and honey will be.

Get yourself some lavender and lilac and your bees will be going crazy for it. At my last residence I had two bushes of it and I had bumble bees and honey bees feeding from it.

Crystallized honey is desired in some parts of the United States as is comb honey. However liquid honey is the standard.

Welcome to the board, I am relatively new here myself, but most people seem to be very helpful. If you desire any information from across the pond shoot me a PM. I'll be glad to answer any questions you might have. Otherwise you'll find plenty of members who have plenty of experience with bees...

Here we have them love lavender bushes and lilacs. For the record I have never seen bluebells in the United States

I mean polymer based products require chemicals, and even plywood requires an adhesive. Regular wood can avoid a lot of these processes and be less harmful to the environment and the bees.

Sounds like you might not want to leave them unattended for long. It could result in serious problems.