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I am in north central Sask. with -22C nights already for the last week, and over a foot of snow. The first frost in the fall which kills all the nectar producing plants is the last week in Sept., I am in Canola country but I am also smack up against the northern Boreal Forest and hope, in the...

We don't get summer honey, and our recommended wintering amount is 40kg. The only flow is the fall harvest, we do not have multiple flows just one big one. Our clover blooms at haying time the end of July and we do not get a second cut so the repeat bloom is small if it appears at all. I do...

Canola flowers from mid July until beginning of August and by August 10 we need to have the supers off for fall treatments. No significant nectar sources are after the middle of August. If I remove the canola honey what is left? nada, nix, naught for them for the winter and no appreciable...

I read that Randy Oliver paper and my take was that he found that granulated stores causes dysentery in bees. Here is the following last notes he puts up in conclusion to his study. The bolding is mine, note his focus on crystalline honey, it is just parsing words to focus on the fact that...

yea gods!!! I didn't any living creature would volunarily reproduce at -32C LOL.

Frame size, countries have different hive measurements. I am an experimenter by nature, I would try a hive with the half frame depth if that was all I could lift and I was determined to try beekeeping as a hobby, or, I would certainly try a top bar hive as a cheap alternative to learn on.

Hello, I had to learn on my own as well. Have patience with yourself and read as much as you can but remember, the best place to learn is from forums like these. I follow multiple ones because you never know when a seasoned beekeeper will say something that resonates with you simple because...

I do not doubt your findings at all. We are all struggling with Apivar lately and pinpointing it's problems is becoming hard to do especially when it works within an apiary on most hives and then not on a few. ETA I also am trying to find alternatives to the Apivar.

How long have the strips been on? I am not being argumentative but Apivar has a time of 8 weeks to work( 10 in England) and if I would vape at anytime within those 8 weeks I could not be sure if the mite drop is because of the vape or if those mites might have dropped because of the Apivar, or...

You and me both. Good grief it is enough when that stuff is on a piece of plastic set within the hive let alone floating about in the environment. Do we even know the risk for other insects should this stuff settle on surfaces outside of the hive?

Banked the first snowfall around the base of the hives. I love the insulating value of the snow for the hives and am glad it showed up this year before the cold weather it sure makes wintering the hives easier. All are wrapped like Christmas presents, tucked in and warm.

Chaga here, grows on birch trees of which we have many. That said, I am seriously skeptical of anything that proposes to cure a multiple of ills that do not have anything in common. When they throw in' anti oxidant', 'boosting the immune system', and 'viral inhibition' my eyes roll and my spidey...

Or what draws them into a drone cell. It is hard to imagine they can measure it so what is it about the drone larvae that allows the varroa to recognize it and prefer it over a worker larvae? Squished drone larvae traps LOL.

I keep records just because as a new beekeeper there is so much to learn and then forget.:confused: I have a sheet for spring/summer manipulations, one for varroa treatments, and a wintering sheet. All these only have a few columns but I find that the wintering notes for me have been the...

I repurpose down pillows and duvet in my top boxes but I wrap them in plastic so they don't mould and get wet. If down gets wet it loses it's insulation value.

Just a question, is it possible that at this time of year many of the bees in the broodless hive are already winter bees? So would those not add some extra bodies to the other hive and be of value?

I believe they do move up, but very slowly. The cluster needs to start the winter at the bottom and it slowly ascends thru the honey stores till it ends near or at the top by spring. If they start at the top, they sometimes will not or cannot move down if the weather gets really cold. I am...

The same reason they adulterate beer with multiple flavours. I don't understand it myself.

Of course it does *sarc* throw in sustainable and toxins and you have the needed selling points for the gullible. I would like to see an ingredients list.

Nope, those that are elected are not the ones suing McDonalds, or any other business, they are the regular Joe looking to make an easy buck. Not every greedy person is a politician and not every politician is greedy. Too wide a brush you paint with.