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My other truck is a Jeep. 5x8 trailer.

Not sure if you can import this. I use it and it works well. Cheap enough, too. https://www.forestrydistributing.com/xentari-df-biological-insecticide-omri-listed-valent

So sad. Kim was a good friend. He and Kathy promoted my work when I was just getting going. How many beekeeper's meetings where he sponsored my trip I couldn't say. Lots. Been trying to remember the good times. The times he made me laugh. Once I was in Medina. We went for a bite to eat before...

I don't like your plan. Too risky trying to buildup that fast. You risk losing the whole operation. I was once working with an Amish group. They too wanted to make as many nucs as possible, as fast as possible so they could maximize their income. I warned them not to. They nuked every blessed...

How many? Difficult to give a number. Will you take what the two colonies can give you, without destroying the colonies? Will you take everything the two colonies have and eliminate them from your apiary? I spoke at the recent NHS about this. Using my "Brood Factory" management, I made 305...

Extractors have a bottom bearing that isn’t sealed. The depth of honey should never over top the bearing, damaging the bearing.

Have you opened any of the chambers? Here these wasps prey is spiders. Each chamber has a number of paralyzed spiders with a wasp larva. Hence, the wasps are also referred to as being "Spider Wasps".

My mid-summer vegetable garden.

I don't think that any of us will be able to afford the cost of vaccinating all our queens. I also don't think that's the intention of the program. To me, if the apiaries raising and selling many thousands of queens were to vaccinate their breeder queens, the effect would be huge, immediate...

Yes, most. Too bad they should have asked

Sounds familiar. We went through the same thirty five years ago

I have another one tomorrow...I think at 10:45. Come listen. Let's meet up.

In don't understand why it is taking so long for your newly mated queen to begin laying. In my queen rearing operation, we catch the queens on day 16 after giving the mating nucs their queen cells. From the age of the larvae present from the new queen, I would say the queens are laying on day...

Ventilation? Oh oh. Please don't throw tomatoes at me when I mention how important ventilation and upper entrances are in my climate.

Do you have Lesser Wax Moths in GB, Achroia grisella? Not sure how large this larva is, but my LWM larvae are small and pink.

I wait until day 4. Why? Eggs hatch on day 3. When you pull the comb with the PIC still attached, there shouldn't be eggs outside the cage. If there are, there's a second queen in the hive. Happens often enough. Waiting until day 6 isn't necessary. In face can become problematic. Some colonies...

Sorry, it was supposed to be TT…treatment threshold.

Have you sampled for varroa population? Is the varroa population below treatment threshold...whatever that is. I lost a lot of nucs in our university breeding program because we went with a TS of 2%. We've reduced the TS to 1%. We'll see about that. We're finding some really awesome bees that...

Indian summer here comes after the killing freezes. The weather has gotten cold and raw. It's a short spell of warm sunny weather before we get our first snows. So nice when the bee work is done for the year, to have a fine Indian summer to relax before it all hits the fan.

In no way do I condone using eggs in pollen sub. I bought some a number of years ago. Nasty. Stinks from eggs.