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I agree and most say the cure for chalk brood is to re queening with a more hygienic queen! We have exactly the same here. No mater how you look after your AMM"s black bees , wild bees or feral bees, whatever you want too call them, they get Chalk brood. Not bad bad, but enough to make you...

Yes but you will see that really efficient vaping it obviously much more effective and also your bees have stopped flying now, (or virtually), so once you get your Varroa numbers down the Varroa will only increase by their own reproductive action, not that of incoming from other sources and...

Almost certainly Sharlock or field mustard as a green manure or cover crop. **** seed is a biennial that is now sown and looks like ugly squats or small plants in fields, all neatly the same size. A carpet of cabbage green. Well done moving bees, Ive moved mine in mid summer less than 2 miles...

Goodness, Apivar life, how did that become a registered medication, does it work after all lol

Pretty sure he's alive, we were rowing about non treatment last week, from the grave?? the lengths some people go to to get they message across!! lol:biggrinjester:

Dont think this is the case, Chris Luck has been contributing to Beekeeping in France on Face book group, do you know any more??

No he dosent !! He answers his phone at 11 pm on a Friday night!! And your always wiser than before you dialled!! Legend !![emoji851][emoji38][emoji4] Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Yes but there comes a time when VOA becomes a challenge, the numbers you have and the time it takes makes it challenging. thats what I've found anyway!

Makes perfect sense, in more northern climes (Northern france and UK for example) once bees top flying, they dont really pick up any more mites, only whats growing in each colony you get them clean late summer and generally they stay like that for 6 months plus), so i suppose thats another...

Perhaps I should rephrase that from non viable!. When a cheaper alternative is available that is exactly the same, it’s gets used Instead. I’ve never bought any Amitraze treatments up until now, only relied on VOA which has worked up to now, but logistically I will consider an Amitraze one off...

Most professionals here buy " by the "Tactic" by the litre. Marc is struggling to get it in the 1litre volume in Portugal (Mazzamazda) at the moment . (they have banned it there i believe) but i can still buy it for about 85 euros a litre. All you do is cut up your own strips and dilute the...

Yes!! I have those!! Inverter from screw fix direct, car battery with inverter still vapes over 40 hives perfectly with sublimox and inverter!! Don’t forget from a car battery with Sublimox your not loosing thexstart up heat each time, only topping up the heat as required! With car battery and...

In that case you may want to consider a Sublimox or an alternative treatment. Vaping does take time! cooling a Varrox sublimator pan, wastes a lot of heat. battery energy and time when you have a lot of hives to do. You probably need to reflect on your treatment methods if thats the issue! Good...

Like I just said, it gives instructions to cover misinterpretations, so people don’t take out the Varrox too soon and the cloud disperses! I have a sublimox (after using a Varrox for 3 seasons) and I still have to close up the hive as best I can to Keep vapours inside for as long as possible...

You can remove the Varrox just after sublimation, but the whole idea is that you leave it sealed for as long as possible to hopefully ensure the cloud of sublimate covers every bee, every surface. As soon as you remove the Varrox that cloud starts to disperse and the efficiency could be less...

Not to mention what they bring with them in their hives. i heard one year about 40% got foul brood post harvest! terrible management! ( but thats only what i was told ) may be completely wrong!

There is a little, , some near Cap Frehel near me, but and its a big BUT,, everybody and their dog goes to the one site. Its not huge say a few hundred acres and its hopelessly over populated with hives. So it has to be an exceptional flow (crappy weather in June and july)to get anything at all...

Yes lovely Video, another place where we need a like button. I do wish we had a heather crop here.

Yes your completely correct, I should have pointed out for everyone else’s benefit I am situated right up in north Brittany so it’s a little colder here. Asians are on the end if their nests lifecycle. Further south it may be a completely different story! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

The hornets and bees are both attracted to the high sugars in the figs, however the hornets are on their way out and you know this because their not searching for high proteins to feed young, their all doing the same as wasps, just hanging around as they die off ! We found last year if you...