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Major cleanup,next week w've a schoolvisite at homebase beestand and a national tv broadcast comes film it.Pic is from a previous visit.And organising,Sunday w've a demostand at the writer "Ernest Claes" 's house of birth.

we use beercrates,a belgian beercrate has 24 spots,our jars fit perfectly in them,easy to stack too,if you need it smaller,adjust it.

couple years ago that was close to a 100%,everybody new took a course,joined an association en registered his beestand(s),now,i don't dare to make an estimated,Jim,jJohn and Sweet Clarinet putting couple hives in the backgarden,no course needed,they find it on the internet,a hype is a...

If it's foam,w've buyers for that that don't want anything else,its best tasting ever,and don't dispose,jeee,if y've no other use for it keep aside and use it up in your wintering in paste.

lol,think y've to ask our politicians and scientists that question,to make absolutely sure i guess.It very rarely occurs here,so not yet have been in contact directly wih the situation,but from what my compagnon told me,you get compensated "per hive",redicusly low not even covering a quarter of...

Ok,for starters,i've been reading all reactions on your post,but since i'm flemish,lot of the therms and methodes used are like chinese to me;Anyway,i describe as good and bad as i can how we do it;We start off preferably with a swepped colonie to cause no burden on our main hives,make that...

Good sticky,i learn something new every day here,need bit of googling at times,???EFB??,lol,but found it.Seems our laws are bit strickter in this case.Once someone report a possible infection a 6 km circle gets closed for any movement of bees/products/materials,the hives getting tested,if...

Deng,sorry my language,i had to use a converter ,but you guys get as much in bulk as we get jarred,pfff,agh well,hard to compare from different countries,prices follow the local income and living costs,a 700 gram bread in Norway cost 5 euro,a 1000 gram bread in Belgium 2 euro....still.....

Once they come to the hives or someone has a 100% confirmed observation,first try to see the direction they fly away to.Then follow that trace and good 300 to 500 m further hang up lurepots,then go observe those to have a new vieuw on their direction,and so on,in the end triangulation and if...

Been kicking myself,then been busy preparing lurepots for tomorrows hunt on yet another AH nest.I had a lurepot for a week just a 100 m away from the confirmed sighting today,deng and double deng,they visit so irregulary it's hard to track them down;First two nests were so easy,got those in no...

Since i'm Flemish some of the therms used in this forums are a mystery to me,rapit feeder or contact feeder,i most likely know them but don't make the connection;Anyway,the pics are excamples of the two systems we use and neither ever showed a situation as you describe,the only tricky moment is...

That's about right,i don't say it's no good as some extra feeding but it doesn't trigger your q to earlier enhance her egglaying,that request some "extras",and it's not know as,it's how we two kiddingly call it.Never harmed anyone to read,experiment and find out by themself without everything is...

I've partially answered some of your questions in another sticky,maibe you can find it,i'm hopeless in the maze of forums.Few quick things tho,we never leave dough(Fondant) nore sugarfluid in the hive during winter.We give them as much fondant they can handle and put away from mid august until...

So,we give them a special dough in spring,we call it starterstuff , rocket fuel or prikkelytikkely,sorry,but this ones formula i'm not giving out,the hives starting through like a rocket once they get it.Februari,we gave it on our apideas with spare queens,they were 2 lvl high,end march we had...

Now you make me jealous,i've heaps of hedera,here they blossem much later,at least another 5 to 6 weeks,but,i'm already on the look out for this hedera bee for like ages and allthough i get a lot of rare bee species visiting my place ,this one never shows up,maibe my hedera is a too late...

Possibly,but both products are legal,neither is poissent unless in overdose but so is water,you don't package the result and use it for sales,it's for personal use,so not illegal here and i don't see the illegality in it,but i bet there are companies enough not liking people making their own...

Yes,we put our oxalic acid/glycerol soaked cloths,some at each hive lvl,then this outdriverplate on top but with the transfers closed off to easely feed them our honey/sugar paste/dough.Same procedure every year.Per hive two spongy biodegradable rinced and dried cleaning cloths,impregnated with...

no clue how big your garden is,but this time of the year you should be able to find dripping tubes in promotion,i just got a package of 100 meters with a good collection of fastening pins,stops,T-splitters,connectors and such for 92 euro,had it all installed within 3 hours,since it's in use i...

About 500 to 600 kg is just sold by the door,w've a sign we put out if there is available,people know that and it can go fast,with a regular harvest we at times are sold out within a week,this year w've done some markets and events,two more coming up and then we will be close to sold out,keeping...

sound solid,strange but can happen,it's the fun part of beekeeping and also the challenging part,keep running into unexplainable situations.For instance this one,like 6 weeks ago,a good running nuc,we do a check up and notice another q a carnica,our q's are buckfast and marked,then we saw our...