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So you have what was thought to be in the 1930 Isle of wight Diesease caused by Tracheal Mites though now thought to be CBPV by the the late Dr leslie Bailey of Rothamsted

screen dump of VMD approved treatments

agree with PH, i often add some warm 1:1 syrup with a test frame and definely add warm feed if the test frame has no queens cells. There is a lot of variables that delays a queen laying, a small hive get her laying quickly, large hives after a flow may think they dont need the queen to lay...

Ten!, why ten, sublimation of apibioxal is with 2.3g per hive (equivalent to 2g of pure oxalic dihydrate). so a two hive owners have to buy enough to sublimated 15 hives not 10 or do you sublimate with 3g per hive?

i thought thornes use canadian red cedar or white English cedar The design of the modified BS national was a goverment approve British Standard design and plans are readily available, it would not be a breach of copyright to copy a modified BS national

done, by the way where is sussex?, thought is was east sussex and west sussex

it changed this year, you now have to write in for the extra sticker and they only now allow one extra

you often find any buttercup pollen collected sealed behind wax so nurse bees dont use it dark honey this time of year is more likely honeydew from pine or oak tree aphids or could be ragwort if lots of yellow staining on frames

that's not what i teach my module group, i would say in addtion to reducing water content to 17% to stop fermentation and sealing in cells with wax as honey is hygroscopic that Bees add the enzyme Glucose oxidase to the honey that breaks down glucose and produces a slow release of Hydrogen...

i have had older beekeeper rant and swear at me at Beginners talk that i have it wrong when i have said clover honey is no longer a honey that can have a 23% water content We still get a clover flow in outer london as open farm land tends to be horse livery fields , there is a general belief...

my view is that the papers should at least be looked at by an educational establishment such as Harper Adam University college or Pershore or Bicton. However the exam structure should rather than being stand alone be linked in with national education qualifications rated at level 3 &4 etc with...

A new Asian hornet nest found in Shed in Jersey, who said they build nests in trees ( from twitter) http://jerseyeveningpost.com/news/2017/07/05/bee-killing-asian-hornets-set-up-home-in-the-island/#6AifEx7M8Gih8Oxv.99

same except seen one pupa drone with deformed wings being ppulled out by worker beesl

agree Bombus Hypnorum the non native tree bumble bee that arrived from france in early 2000s and now are found over most of England They are more aggressive than our bumbles if disturbed, so leave them as they will die out at the end of summer, i am getting about 20 calls a week this summer, i...

cut the capping off, cut out, crush and spin in your tangential in two or three muslin bags (depending on design of tangential ( ie two/four or three frame)

new queens often dont lay if there is no flow on, but i would worry yet, you could try feeding a little light syrup in a contact feeder just to see if that spurs her on

The oldest beekeeper in my BKA says it has happended before, he says it is the dry patch we had in may,,,everything went into suvival mode due to the drought, so in flower early

The Blackberries are over two weeks earlier than last year and the Lime has just come out, at this rate Christmas will be in October

PM me when you put the flow hive on ebay, as i wouldn't mind playing with one but wont pay their prices

I have no problem with 19mm(3/4") pins, I think you have put the pins in wrong part of the wedge, try putting them in through the narrow part of the wedge instead of the wide part of the wedge you can just do it straight down but as others say a 45 degree angled pin is better