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What's wrong? Few insulation in winter, good ventilation (through roofs in my hives), cold hives, quiet bees, no brood, no problems. I have styrofoam in roofs, other men have some kind of pillows etc. All beekeepers of our forum has no insulation, only a thin pillow on tops. I watched many...

The roofs have insulation 3 cm styrofoam. The space between styrofoam and a nest is 3 cm. Nests also are covered with thick cloth. More insulation in winter is more moisture and problems (early brood, spoiled honey). The weather was quite mild in general.

Until the end of this month we have cold weather (-15 at night). The most difficult periond has started. Many colonies already have brood. I checked on them and added frames with food under the nests. Two colonies happend to be near starvation. Sometimes it's easy to see whether a colony has...

Thank you for your questions. I'm very pleased. Our parlament voted the law about beekeeping many years ago. Nevertheless this law is rather formal than real. It includes the plan of races allowed in different regions. In fact bekeepers have the races which they want. We also have a state...

There may be snow or good warm weather here at that time. I'll try it in several hives. What do you mean "trickling"? We use it as a spray, spraying every frame with bees. The only recomendation here is killiing mites with all possible weapon. I'm searching for organic methods. Our beekeepers...

The first yield is expected to be in July. During several weeks after the cleance flight colonies don't grow. Until July their nests will be rebuilt, new combs will be added. There must be no any residues or smell of thymol. Usually at the end of March, sometimes earlier. Now it is -2 +2°C and...

I'm going to use thymol after the cleance flight in spring. I have already used it in autumn. It didn't eliminate all mites but reduced infestation. In my opinion hot weather in August (more that +27) prevented thymol to work efficiently. This method is described by Eric Osterlund from Sweden...

I started with horizontal dadan hives. Now I have such hives It's easy to made them. There is 1/2 of a standart dadan frame (145 mm) or one dadan frame (300) in two boxes. Each box include 10 frames

Ok. Winter "Cold" is a temperature lower than -10 (usually at night). If air is humid it feels like colder. Average winter is between -5 +5. Now it is 0°.This winter is warm. Almost all days of December was +. There were just two weeks with -15 at night and -10 in the daytime in January. The...

You're right. My first hives were horizantal with 20-24 dadan frames. Something like this: I don't have them any more for the reason of transportation. As for queens, you know, even if a queen is a good one when honey flow starts bees quickly fill all combs limiting a queen so there may be no...

I don't know much about British beekeeping but I know that British weather is very different, so beekeeping differs in some aspects as well. Now I can see that our beekeeping becomes more professional and commercial oriented than it was a decade ago. For example, the most discussed subjects of...

May I introduce myself for this respectful community. My name is Eugene. Podilia is a historical name of the south western part of Ukraine. My region is a good place for beekeeping. From my childhood I like nature, gardening, animals, insects etc. I collected bugs, butterflyes and all such...