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Is Finman still with us?

I just read that there will be no honey show in 2025. Really? Well that stinks.

Nothing blooming here. We're officially in "stick season"

I don't understand the insistence that the Q- colony goes on top of the paper. Many threads here suggest that on top is the way. I do have to disagree. With the Q- on top, those bees go down through the Q+ colony. Apt to cause an issue...as related in this thread. With the Q+ colony on the...

Certainly not a myth. Thinking about the difference between Italian stock Apis mellifera ligustica and your black bee Apis mellifera mellifera.

https://bees.caes.uga.edu/content/dam/caes-subsite/bee-program/images/bees%2C-beekeeping-%26-pollination/other-topics/Poster162.pdf https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6235251/

I agree with this. Colonies with an elevated hygienic response, HYG, will never show any chalk. Any stocks or strains of honey bee can be selected for HYG. It doesn't matter it they're Amm or Ligustica or Carnica or Buckfast or whatever. If you are raising queens to improve the colonies in your...

Wish I was.

Our goldenrod has a very nice flavour. A bit butterscotchy. The colour is two clicks below white...ELA...not dark as is reported so often. In 2019, I had some very pure goldenrod in naturally build comb at the goldenrod flow. Even though in was in a plastic shopping bag..:oops:..Well, it was at...

Not that I know of

No Ivy here...maybe a bit on the walls of the University

Things are winding down here. After one of the worst crops I've experienced, the Autumn flow hit. Lots of water in the ground. Three weeks of hot, sunny weather. Like the good old days before varroa. At August harvest, most hives were scary light. Now...heavy. Not too much feeding this...

Good luck

Do you have access to a mated queen? How soon can you get one?

b. Requeen with a bought queen.

I would shake out the bees and put the combs away. Perhaps wait long enough for the LW brood to emerge. Surely not worth trying to save the colony.

The first photo...It looks like this multiple eggs are in a queen cup/cell. Is that what I'm seeing? I find that if I'm trying to identify a Laying Worker event, multiple eggs in a queen cup/cell is a positive diagnosis.

Caught queens today. Only a half catch, as we're getting the mating nucs ready for winter. Three more half catches and we're done for the season. Then it will be time for a happy dance. Beginning requeening tomorrow.

So you're checking for eggs at 12 days after giving the cells? How old were the cells...how many days after graft? My cells are scheduled to be given 10 days after graft. I catch the queens on day 16 after giving cells. From the age of the new larvae I would say that most queens begin to lay one...