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We often mark drones for observation hives make it fun for the kids. After of course they drift places.

I know there is a a lot of thought against clipping queens, sorry if we are not retired and have a non bee keeping life this is where it is a life saver, 4 of mine swarmed, but i lost no bees. One was just going back into the hive when i turned up. I have ended up with 20 QC's in mating nucs...

You can make travelling screens yourself not exspensive using the green fine garden mesh from any garden centre. i just put a wood frame around and right angle brackets and gaffa tape the edges. As the advice said stop every hour or so and spray water onto the screen to allow the bees to use...

As the person said not about Demaree, it is about how i keep my bees overall in that i have 8 frames in each national box not 11. To fill the space i cut a piece of correx, cover in gaffa tape and drop it in.. when i do a demaree in the bottom box i take it out, add three frames of foundation...

yes but this way you lose the colony, sure the bees join others but for people with only two or three colonies the first method saves a colony.

Okay hang on here. If you see one queen cell look for others, as often there may be many and then the first queen out will not always kill off the others often you wil get castes instead then another and another. Personally if the colony is reasonable what I do is queen cell harvesting...

It is not about the number of eggs it is where they are. Are they dotted around, or as with a normal queen laying close together, nice pattern etc. Also are their mutliple eggs in one cell that is worker generally unless new queen.

Okay sounds like drone laying worker but are the cells with eggs in nicely grouped together or spread out with one here one there. If they are grouped together you have a drone laying queen. I would put a frame of eggs in see if they make up a new queen cell. If drone laying worker and you...

I can only tell you what i do. Pls bear with me . . I run colonies on national two x 8 standard frames so 16 frames in total. Corex block in space. In Late Feb/March i remove the bottom box and make top box bottom, new box on top and feed - 50% comb change. This year 3 did not have this...

See you all there, only auction I will make this year as away on holiday when other two are on, i know disgraceful holidays during the bee season:)

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Yes please send me email to [email protected] i have big and small ones that will save you lots of work. Just done one for a new teaching apiary on a big commercial site for our division so this is very big and complete. You can edit down easily.

First of all is is drone laying worker or Queen. Relatively easy to determine, if odd eggs dotted around the place, often multiple in a cell on a cell wall - worker. If in a relatively nice pattern, condensed area Queen. I had two Drone laying queens this year, one colony had produced a nice...

look on google maps for nice big empty pieces of land then approach owners, more built up you live the harder it is but as they say most association can help some run association apiaries.

Emailed you, thanks

No but useful when you buy it for it to say it is not the correct size for 2.5mg sort of just assumed it was. Thought the designer had worked through that. on a bigger pipe they could have just cut the height down to the right size.

really useful thanks thought the point of the measuring spoon supplied by Gasvap was it put the right amount it, why not make it the right size aaaagh. Really great thanks.

Some other light reading on this attached and below in links. Towards integrated control of varroa: effect of variation in hygienic behaviour among honey bee colonies on mite population increase and deformed wing virus incidence : Sussex Research Online

To be more scientific on this: https://theapiarist.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Radetzki_OA_vaporisation_trial.pdf https://theapiarist.org/repeated-oxalic-acid-vaporisation/ The bottom line is VMD only allow one treatment per year, research has shown multiple treatments are fine. As far as...

WELL i have to say thanks for the picture. As a 40mm round will go 2.2km i am thinking i could mount mylself at home and hit all three of my apiaries! Seriously great and def food for thought, once i start using it i will find out if i need a stand or not. I am hoping with my tin and the caps...