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The problem with stastics like that is that 50% of beekeepers aren't in the BBKA so Bee farmers and the 50% aren't asked and new hobby beekeepers just starting up are more likely to fill them in i had 10 production colonies in 2013 located in north london and got 80lbs to 120lbs per colony...

agree, it appears to need a solvent (water or alcohol) to dissolve the oxalic dihydrate and and wouldnt the water/alcohol just steam/vapour the varroa and all you would be left with is oxalic crystals which would clog it up until it eventually reach sublimation point which is above the boiling...

would it be legal to use in UK as it uses a solvent and non authorised treatment method? quote The principle of operation is based on high-temperature evaporation of a solution of the active substance (amitraz, fluvalinat, tau-fluvalinat, thymol, oxalic acid, etc.) with a solvent (purified...

you either provided a 13 digit number to a bar code label provider or buy a unique one from them simplest is just to search ebay for them you can also get software to generate your own and print you buy a 13 digit EAN number and then get your labels printed

As JBM , Missionary zeal....it is always nice to convert someone from the darkside

i was banned from their original discussion forum on their web site in 2009, ZAP gone, no reason, just removed just because i argued that solid crown boards if insulated would not cause bees to eat more stores and die drowning in condensation Though perhaps my reply was a bit sarcastic to the...

Or from next year, when they translate the instructions to english the european product Oxuvar, thats is a solution of oxalic dihydrate in water that you add sugar to and add more water, seem rarther like what the OP was going to do

i did most of mine today by sublimation, and i was able to look in most of the production hives quickly as temp here in London was 14c and 13c in countryside I found no brood but country area had ample stores (ragwort and ivy honey bees) whwereas urban hives had their 2 outer frames either...

Vespa velutina the Asian Hornet at 100x.....the last thing your bee will see (Hornet courtesy of Plenty of Honey)

i think OMOV is only being proposed by the trustee because the trustees got defeated by the dleagates last year at the ADM when the delegates voted down a £1 increase in BBKA fees

did any of you buy shares in British Gas..did you every vote at a shareholders meeting .one shareholder one vote.......never works, its a either proxy vote given to charman or the voting slip is found unopened after the companies AGM all votes go through on the nod , dissenters always loose and...

well, already had three emails from last few years beginners asking " Does removing insulation apply to the London area now or should i take it off later" ,,,,aaaaaaaaaah

thanks Finman, you found a lead to what we were looking for, you must have a better search engine than me full txt pdf of research attached Nucleotide Variability at Its Limit? Insights into the Number and Evolutionary Dynamics of the Sex-Determining Specificities of the Honey Bee Apis mellifera

Asian hornet Diploid drones are fertile so you can get Triploid Asian Hornet Drones..so is that 4

i have read the paper as well, so you are not day dreaming, but alas cannot trace it it was if i remember right about sex alles in bees of east Africa and it increased the number of alles dramatically from the previously known 20 ish to 50 and above

:spy: Having seen your House recently, i thought a roof might be a more appropriate Christmas present :spy:

this similar article to your link suggest they reach adulthood as diploid male adult hornets were caughtand also unpublished reference to triploid males ( queen mated with diploid drone) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4586377/

well, I sold my series 111 land rover as it will fell foul of the london poltion control's 4 speed, two ratio and fairey overdrive...16 gears one person came round and freaked out at three nobs to change gear miss it .....so has anyone got a pre 1972 series 11a for sale as they are exempt of...

its more a book for BBKA module 6 behaviour, how they forage, how they find forage, how they see, worker queen differentation,and small amount on swarming but that may be superceded by more modern books on pheromones and queen substance i have the 1964 paperback reprint and it got me through...

The problem is they dont take anyone off, we allowed beginners to use apairy for their first Nuc, our old SBI used to register all the beginner, one apiary has 39 names of beekepers against it.....how many use it now ONE and that's me as trainer, another has 34...and now three beekeepers share it