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That's interesting. The impication being it's her quality or lack of it casuign the slow build up? I'd assumed they were small just now 'cos they went into the winter small.

Thanks Boston, I do have a third coloney which is going ok so if the worst happens... When you say just unte Jenkins - what would the process be? Newspaper? Neil

I've two colonies I want to unite this spring. One grew huge last year on a queen from an early walk away split, she's huge and an ugly mottled browm/black. Unfortuantely they became increasingly unfriendly. It was my first experience with such a large coloney and producitve queen so I thought...

Lots of blackthorne out here - I saw quite a bit (on an island in a local nature reserve) in Febuary.

dont they do it by analysing the pollen content?

Learner Q - what do you do with ivy honey?

I put a cardboard tube up last year and caught two (though one stayed less than 72hours and had gone before I hived it :cautious: ). I put it on top of a bay window. https://beekeepingforum.co.uk/threads/what-did-you-do-in-the-workshop-today.21943/page-131#post-761379

Your going to think I'm Randy in disguise but does this model talk to a similar theory: http://chickabuzz.com/model.html

Yes, from memory he speculated it was passge over the towels that was the crucial step vs the removal of the matrix thorugh the coloney that was a key mode of action. His later work was on cellulose sponges (which I think are more similar to the Abelo product). I think I might make my own though...

The writing on them makes me think they are actually manufactured in eastern europe somewhere. Abelo I'm guessing just import and re-sell.

Sounds like Yoda!

Yes, fair enough.🤞

This an image form his trial. Though the Abelo's strips lend themselves to being hung over the top bars. So yes, it is different. But maybe more like a vaccine injected in the leg rather than the arm?

Thank's Boston, Last year attitudes here to the strips seemed more neutral - as Dani hints. Is the view forming here that it's the Abelo formulation or that Randy's findings shouldn't be generalised? I'll definately let you know my intial figures. Neil

mmm, and you have just underlined it - very clever and ta very much (as they say in yorkshire) :rolleyes: ;) . I have also: parked on double yellow lines; used a human generic of a topical vetinary medicine on a cat (and vice versa); had *** in a public place (though not recently sadly); fished...

I dont recall that - though I have been absent from these parts for a few months :) I have a vap as back up and will do some rolls as soon as I can get in. Just hope they survive that long.

And this his teaser from his newletter I subscribe to. (sad news about the tumour 🙏):: Update on extended-release oxalic acid (OAE) I've also completed further testing on extended-release oxalic acid, which I'll be posting soon. ABJ asks me to wait for two months after publication to post, so...

Will do; meanwhile this is Randy's 2018 research. Pretty sure we've been over it here before. https://scientificbeekeeping.com/extended-release-oxalic-acid-progress-report-4/

That's the plan, I'll update.

https://www.abelo.co.uk/shop/varroa-control/oxalic-acid-strips/