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White are big dry sugar crystals not reptile eggs. Yellow are poop of storage beetle larvae or beetle.

At least warre hive is not my problem. Neither long hive or flow hive. And many others.

MAny habits

It seems that they want a new queen. IF you do not them to do it, they do it in Autumn.

Yes, I too clip next spring.

Professional beekeepers clip the wings, and they say that their hives would be queenless after winter , if bees supercede the clipped queens.

I think that they are quard bees. They are doing their job. Sometthing has disturbed the hive. No reason to look the brood box. It was May. Opening does not help any more.

It depends what boxes you have. Frames must fit to boxes and to nothing else. In Finland we use American Langstroth standards.

Get one frame and the measures from it.

Such is life Better job than bark bypassers all days long.

That is a big mistake if you try that. In Finland September is such month that weathers do not allow mating. Once me and my friend got 15.9 mated queens. My hive started to renew its queen in spring and my friend's queen was not able to lay 2 boxes. Such a dwarf hive. Queen rearing is a...

As a biologist I use the whole temp scale of temperature. What idea is to inform the coldest temperature where the queen has been seen to mate. The idea is to give to beekeepers knowledge about normal conditions.. I do not know the meaning of this wondering.

YEs, I found the same data, this is what it tells about mating temperature. There is many temperatures but NO 14C case. THE TABLE BEGINS from14. Lowest flight temps are about at 16C.

If you read from google real researches about queen mating flights, 20C is ordinary temperature to the happening. Somehow beekeepers love to select record achievements fron wide data, an thei own queens are best in the world.Queens do what they do and you cannot influence their flight with...

Are these bees Carniolan? So clear strand in abdomen.

But not here. Germany is big country. Where there.

WIth Tasnania and Finland there is a difference , how high the sun is shining. How sun heats the bee's body. In Finland minimun temp is 18C. The last month when I get mated queens is August.

It is over 20C. Ypu xan hope of couse. In 18C it gappens some succes, but it takes time. Never met 15C.

I cannot say anything because I do not know what is modern warre. In Finland black bee keepers have invented a gold mine. They say that black bee / German Bkack Bee is an original bee in Finland and some take 100 €/kg.from honey. Varroa killed our " original" bees 35 years ago.

To me progress is 120 kg honey per hive. I can dump all my savings into progress without getting back anything.