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Read the following...I have quoted you already. Stop ignoring that the initial agent provocateur here was your posts about the queens that come here, the vast majority from truly excellent breeders. I challenged your statement...and your response is to try to turn the tables...suspect you think...

Yep....just like the old days. I could enjoy this! Cite your sources about the 'unresistant' queens...you asserted.....I challenged...its YOU who needs to provide the answers. I do not use any of our test results in UK marketing, they are in house tests. Want results we will send you queens...

Remember I was a moderator on Bee-L right through the core of the small cell cult and had to 'mud wrestle' with Dee Lusby rather too often for my liking...so veteran of facing sideways moves. Make an assertion. It gets challenged and explanations or citations asked for. Turn it round and...

LOL...that one would have got me a slap across the chops. Although Jolanta and I can argue like an old married couple at times, it comes from working together for almost 20 years and having similar ideals. Work partners we are...life partners not. May be in Kent more often in the seasons ahead...

Citations please to justify that remark. It is deeply insulting to the very fine and careful breeders out there who suffer from the dreadful stigma of *not being British* One of the main suppliers into the UK in N Italy turns out 90000 VSH queens and queen cells per season to northern European...

Only half serious about them being for sale. This remains an EFB area...ok so its about the average level in England and Wales but still.....would rather send them for recycling than risk them moving EFB to a new area...even though none was ever KNOWN to be present in them...subclinical you...

Would add....had spent the afternoon down near Tenterden looking at nucs of a customer with Jplantas queens in them. They were splendid....however was a horrendous gale and then realised I had no comb or hairbrush in the truck. A scarecrow would have been embarrassed at the state of the hair...

Just heading north after last nights talk at Medway. Decent turnout but those who know me will becwell aware that at 45 min in I am just warming up! Off on too many detours as usual....so the main talk ended part way through....sorry all! Questions were of a good standard. Could have gone on for...

Did they not come WITH frames? Have a stack of them here we stopped using a couple of seasons back...came with plastic frames..through Swienty. German ones. Open to offers.....they just don't suit us.

Not by me it didn't....I was looking forward to the peace and quiet! 8hrs travel each way will render my ears incinerated. We are actually now combining it with two meetings one of whom is aone of her biggest queen customers who also buy stacks of the boxes frames and wax I bring in and sell...

Just for info. Jolanta WILL be there on Wednesday night for anyone who wants to talk to her about queen and nuc matters.

Pies yes...............beer no. Just from personal taste...not any diet fetish...rarely ever drink alcohol. Sadly a lot of the alterative are even more certain to make one rather tubby. On their own no big deal...but when you add in the chocolate, the chips, the spuds, the steak and onoins...

Cheeky pup! Oddly I very rarely eat cake, and never drink tea or coffee. My 'blubber quotient' is down to other causes..............picks from list of deadly sins...starts with gluttonly and sloth.

Not 100% sure yet...but you very likely to get Jolanta too. Unfortunately she is not fond of standing in front of an audience but is not slow to interrupt me from the audience if what I say about the queen and nuc unit does not exactly match what she does..... it can be pretty comical. I am sure...

Just to muddy the waters on this somewhat odd thread... In British size boxes (Smith/National) there was the older wider spacing and the newer narrower one. We truly dislike the newer one and have all our brood frames (Smith and Langstroth) made at 35mm Hoffman side bars. Means we never have to...

Yes...the 'post hoc fallacy'. Small samples sizes and limited time ranges leaves small units susceptible to making assertions based on assumptions that do not stand the test of large trials on multi season situations. We have very large sample sizes, and whilst the number of variables may be...

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*Never ever handle the virgins as this causes the fail rate to rocket, even in fresh first time fill of the box. We never premark the virgins.* Should clarify this. ANY touching of the virgins taints them in ways imperceptible to us. The bees are pretty fickle at times and anything other than...

We make them up with nice young bees and unless in a great hurry we let them fill maybe 3 combs with brood. The hatching brood self perpetuates them..if they get enough brood we dont have an issue with them dwindling..in fact sometimes the opposite and we have to split them. But...if they are...

They will indeed reject virgins, thats for sure. They way to do this is to go back to old basics....remember those coil type queen cell protectors? As the queen is harvested we either put the new cell in right away...and those cells are within 48hrs of hatching, best if even less. Instead of the...