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Currently I use a 60watt bulb in a large chest freezer and it works just fine. It takes about 3 days to warm two 80lb buckets back to a liquid. I have an electrician coming to put in a new fuse board and want him to fix up my freezer some sort of heating element and a control stat that is more...

Around here they mostly get neutered with the front wheel of a car.

I am melting wax in the new kitchen, while the wife is gone shopping with her sister. Hope to get finshed before she gets home.

I think the reason that you have not had any replies to your question, is that their is no buckfast beekeepers in south leinster. I dont think that anyone has mentioned whos bees are superior. The point that we were trying to get across to you, is how agressive your bees are going to get, if you...

As far as i know, hygienic bees are excellent at cleaning out cells and house keeping, but varroa resistant bees also target the adult mites that are outside the cells and being carried around on the bees . Fingers crossed

Hi hivemaker. Nothing has been imported into the country of any stain, for cross breeding. I believe that students from collage were helping out beekeepers, doing a study on the varroa mite and looking for hygienic bees in our dark native bees AMM. They were testing and monitoring apiary's...

Nothing imported. A good few queens have been found so far, where their progeny are showing extremely good signs of been able to reduce the mite load themselves.

Did something the same, except a put a couple in a solar wax extracter as a text.I wont be putting antmore in it

I was looking for brewers yeast on the net under horse supplement suppliers and came across this suppliment suppliers http://www.bimeda.ie/docs/exdocs2/1CON007_Data_Sheet.pdf . Do you thing this could be added to the mix !!!! Its probably in our beef burgers anyway

Thanks Finn man. The problem with your recipe is the irradiated pollen, which is hard to get. Can it be substituted with anything else

I am looking for an substitute pollen patties recipe. I never tried it before and want to test it out on one of my apairys,that is in a main ceral crop area, where early forage is scarce, and the farmer has put in early oil seed rape and i wanted to try and give the bees a boost into brood...

When I was lifting crown board a week ago, to see how they were doing, I noticed some of they were a bit on the small size in population. Two of them were transferred into national poly nucs straight away, the other was a commercial and I did not get a chance to transfer them till yesterday...

Got a phone call from a local builder this morning, that was pulling a flat roof off and a ceiling down. He discovered that there was two bees colonies in either corner of the roof. Two hours later i had all the comb in a couple of buckets. As i removed all the comb i inspected it thoroughly...

They would of migrated or been brought by people, when the last ice age retreated and the tundra was replaced with trees, which would of given them natural nest sites as they became hollowed with age.

The correct terminology in beekeeping is Instrumental insemination not artificial insemination. It’s a very specialised expensive piece of equipment and you are now saying that over 3 thousand beekeepers in Ireland should invest in this, so a handful can continuously bring in foreign imports...

Don't know how you worked out the simple maths on that. The whole of the leinster area is dominant with native /local bees and then you say that when you import foreigners into the area, then it's the locals that are the problem.

Hi sorbus. I see that this is your first post , so I take it you are a newbe to beekeeping. By south leinster, I take it you mean wexford, Waterford, carlow , kilkenny area. AS far as I am aware all of leinster is the strong hold for our native bee apis mellifera mellifera, or our local brown...

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That looks like the teeth marks of animal. You can actually see the marks of the top teeth and then the drag marks of the bottom teeth

Do you know a gamekeeper or a deerstalker. One of them might have a game trail camera that they could loan you.