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Ireland has a Buckfast and Carniolan Beekeeping group. Not everyone in Ireland keeps Black Bees. Your facts about Buckfast are straight out of the BIBBA propaganda machine.

It will work both ways. Problem is if the bees are clustered passive OA treatments don't penetrate the cluster easily.

Took some videos a few years ago vaping from above via an eke and a clear crownboard. IMO it seems to disperse better than doing it through the entrance with an OMF you can see the OA get pulled down through the frames as the bees start to fan as opposed to fighting the direction of the hive...

You may need planning for the fence. As far as the bees go he is talking rubbish.

First large Christmas event done this weekend, I now have a week to jar loads of honey and make more candles and gift sets before the next one. I don't do many been talked into doing 3 large events this year. Bank balance is happy but I now have a busy week trying to replace the honey I sold. I...

300 ltrs of syrup made with sugar I got at 15p per lb, some time and £3 for oa. :)

Has anyone been keeping an eye on the prices of overwintered Nucs? The prices are getting higher every year this price increase cannot be sustainable. Last year the price was around £250 for a nuc of bees early season and I'm seeing adverts for next springs nucs at £325 to £350 and nucs in June...

Last year I was sensible and didn't get involved in it. This year I was talked into sticking my head above the parapet. When I have time there will be a discussion with the person that led me into this ridiculous chaos. It's still NOVEMBER.

candles.

I've officially had enough now. Sick of making candles. Sick of jarring and labelling honey. Sick of making up gift sets. If it carries on like this I think by Christmas I'll be back in the asylum :) I've spend hours and hours making bloody candles about 200 of them and they keep disappearing...

When I looked into Amitraz it is one of the most used pesticides around. Problems are that it has some rather nasty effects on women, to a point women can't work in factories where it is made. Birth defects and other problems of that type have been found with exposure to it.

Just wondered if anyone ese was as pee'd off as me by having to put together boxes of Christmas gift sets etc. Doing my nut in already.

Haha, that came out days after I posted on their social media page slating the previous petition as vague and useless telling them they need to offer a solution not just whinge and then being contacted by a trustee. The argument I gave them was that in blended honey the honeys therein are...

Swifts and swallows cause me considerable problems eating queens. It's nature, that's what happens, everything has to eat.

I know someone selling a 50l creamer but it isn't heated. Used twice.

I do have some apiaries on Balsam :D

Glad I avoid this kind of stress by not opening the hives after September. :)

you often see multiple eggs in cells with colonies suffering nosemosis. nosema can also stop the queen laying and mess her insides up so she doesn't fertilize eggs. Thymol in syrup can fix this normally but it leads to supersedure because the queen is never any good after being infected. The...

Looks to me like you've united 2 3 frame nucs one of which was sick. Chalkbrood can be an issue but rarely holds them back unless it's extreme. My gut says what you have there is a colony with nosema. Queen is infected also so her insides aren't working properly, workers aren't tending brood or...

Your dad was awesome. He is missed by many. Welcome.