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I bought one of these Icing sugar dusting has been shown to work. I remember reading the report on an experiment conducted in the USA. To get it to work properly though they had to dust the bees every few hours every day for about a month. The man hours and the amount of sugar required made...

What is it about beekeeping that attracts that silly pompous strain of man? You know the type, they have an opinion on everything. They cant see anything past the end of their nose. Beekeeping isnt difficult so if you think your the master of mankind because you keep a few bees then you are...

I've looked about for this strain of bee for a while but it doesnt seem like anyone in Britain has them. Does anyone know of anywhere you can obtain Russian Bee's? They have existed alongside the Varroa mite for alot longer than any of our softer strains. Consequently they are about 50% more...

I got stung bad the other day. Mitsubishi charged me £180 for a new truck key!

How do you know if you are sensitive to bee stings or not? You could be sitting on a time bomb. Go get stung, get it out the way. It really doesnt hurt that much, people just make a big deal out of it

1/2" from my eyeball!! No face veil. :iamwithstupid:

Perhaps I will pot another 50 sunflowers and share half the crop with the bees. Cant say fairer than that

Im growing them so im eating them! Last thing I want is birds around the hives, those buggers eat my bees! Anyway, the only birds we have around here are magpies and they dont seem to need feeding

http://www.pestcontrolonline.com/~pestcont/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=232&zenid=81bbb208d98b1d0fd3200f12b79985cb This looks good. Bet you could blow a good cloud of sugar in with it

Where he states a 4% or 5% mite drop he questions his own methods and states that this answer is likely not correct because it would suggest a mite pop of around 20,000! Further down the article has a section where it states using a european dust bellows to pump a sugar dust cloud into the hive...

Potted fifty sunflowers ready to plant all round my hives when it warms up. Will need to find some recipes for sunflower seeds now....

Sugar roll a whole colony, do you do it with one big bucket or a jar's worth of bees at a time? How does that work out for you? Sounds like a time consuming activity.

I do remove the frames for dusting. I grab the opportunity when the temp is high enough on the odd day to take each frame out and dust them quickly. Im not sure how effective pushing sugar dust between the frames would be. I have never tried it that way. I believe in bib and braces, thats why...

I only dust the bees when the colony is broodless. Any other time is pointless. I have been using a sugar shaker but this tends to deposit to much sugar at once. It doesnt so much dust the bees as bury them! Its also to slow, I want something that does a quick puff and the job is done. When...

Does anyone have any great ideas for speeding up sugar dusting for Varroa? Im fed up using my sugar shaker so I just bought a powder/dust sprayer off ebay: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/SPRAYER-DIATOMACEOUS-EARTH-Or-other-powders-/170497853114?pt=UK_Pet_Supplies_Poultry&hash=item27b276c6ba I have no...

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Hi crazy bull. are the queens marked? I have a correx nuc box spare. When could i collect if i purchase one?

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Thanks for the replys but i already got my new workforce. Thanks Gavin in Melton Mowbray

I have an empty hive, does anyone have a nuc ready to go?