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    Introducing buckfast queen to AMM bees

    jep nuc army introduce -combine is one method others are kill the Q wait a week destroy all the emergency QCells and give them larvae/eggs brood(comb test) to make more and wait another week( 9days?)all brood capped and destroy again all emergency Qcells and introduce the new Q . What you...
  2. M

    What did you do in the Apiary today?

    if you ve not watch it , do it
  3. M

    Bees are in a small cluster at the entrance in the night

    think its both ripening means cooling also and thats is a question mark of when is best to feed bees for winter stores without cooling them much
  4. M

    What did you do in the Apiary today?

    QX is brood excluder not nectar , imagine that brood and nectar have somehow kinda ''competitive relationship'' from what i read you are joined a situation where brood reduces from its own , that means less nurses needed for take care it and so more nurses pass into mid-age bees - the most...
  5. M

    What did you do in the Apiary today?

    i dont think them move stores only consume and if flow continue and block ya broodnest then the way may is to try draw more down the nest (nadiring?either brood box and you re-arrange frames either shallow and leave it up to them?) except if you want the broodbreak block?
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    A new formulation of oxalic acid for Varroa.

    bees feet use for tasty so am not sure d like wipe happening
  7. M

    What would hive damage due to heat look like?

    i think all bees are and act almost the same way with the same mechanism/insticts...... if anything local it may d be if any bees adapted may for exmple fly in too hot/too cold/or windy areas when others do not outside frames ussually are store frames and my observation is that bees when too...
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    What would hive damage due to heat look like?

    fanning for inside coolling more efficient if dark , airtight and spacious thats how we when no time left for swimming in our sunny hot long summers and when night comes all out and seems bees heat def mechanism works in same way - fanning dry air inwarrds from small entrance plus inside...
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    Some observations two days after newspaper unite.

    if not quote all particulars then may conclusion false , you can unite anything but one thing is the unite other thing regality after , them kingdoms and if a colony has a chance their genes reign then will take that chance and either recapture either swarm so need to minimize the...
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    Some observations two days after newspaper unite.

    when remove Q from a hive then colony its emergency Q less and either introduce straight a mated not stop laying Q from your apiary or if is a mated but stop laying Q like ''buy/post Qs'' you need make colony first hopelessly Queen less meaning destroy 9days after all emergency Qcells and then...
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    I'm embarrassed that I started beekeeping only last July 16th.

    sry, its me ,disarm the bullet but this eradicate cant happen ,may never, as long the outside pest's reproductive bio cyrcle is shorter and inside the host's cyrcle!!varroa alone/itself is not the ''real enemy'' but an accelerant of viruses affect brain-wings-...........them are the real...
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    Some observations two days after newspaper unite.

    the first small holes that will be opened in the newspaper the first bees ll come out will be probably the foragers and mid age bees while all nurses and Q ll stay with brood in cluster and thats what you want to happen to use those foragers and the remain returning foragers as ''air...
  13. M

    Anyone bringing shade to their bees for the forecast heat wave?

    most dont have and much choise but if them had sure them select shade the biggest problem is the metal roof(ll get rid of them soon , so far in summers using foam above metal) not the floor and personal dont use omf avoiding all the hot coming up from the ground and what i plan do next is...
  14. M

    Introduced New Queen after Laying Workers - Findings from first inspection and what next?

    well i ussually introduce Swarm Cells or half sisters Q free run on comb and occasionally push in cage on emerge brood , dont buy Qs so havent use any of these travel cages, dont know much about it but it seems to me 6 days is kinda long period they not free her already, dunno maybe is for the...
  15. M

    equipment price arbitrage between Greece and UK

    γεια χαρά well i did the opposite this winter and bought couple hives and co stuff from england and will do it again cause i really like those hives but now with brexit customs duties makes it real pain so dont thnik so it ll benefit if anything is cheaper in one or the other country as long as...
  16. M

    When to inspect after introducing new queen

    shoock them not for the reason that them ll not fly back shoock them so as take them combs out(cut all drone comb,eggs larvae , sealed and keep cutting next days/weeks it as long as there drone brood ) givving them filled combs(open/sealed brood) and starter strips open brood do no cancell...
  17. M

    questionable teaching or not?

    its about when colony expands how early or late put the first super before the broodnest arc honey ceiling appear or and nadiring for pollen,nectar is direct communication(trophalaxis -foragers with nectar receivers in dance areas near entrance) and competitive with brood(block each other and...
  18. M

    Not a swarm

    actually wasnt question :) more un answer question mb anyway thnx
  19. M

    Not a swarm

    orientation flights?
  20. M

    drawing frames

    thank you, i feel bit orange now :) well its not my knowledge but i like follow and learn bees through them nutrition and them insticts and read/watch as much as can for that taking parts from many people methods that suit my philosophy,there are couple of years now(when i met randy oliver's...
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