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Not quite beekeeping? You do what needs doing or to prevent something that will occur if you didn’t. Re the vaping - I still reckon you are likely doing more damage to your colony than just leaving them in peace, at this time of the year.

Your biggest problem may be that there will be little space for the queen to lay - if they use up the fondant instead of the stores (in what should be brood frames).

Paterson seems unnecessarily complicated/risky/etc. I remember (from a long time ago) when I still had those one-way thingies. I slapped on a fresh super, then a crownboard with bee escapes, then another coverboard and the roof. Went back and found the super empty with no bees or few bees in it...

No, not particularly. Just wanted to move on to a sensible thread and didn’t bother to check my keying in. We know where the pong resides. You do fine - keep it up your way.

Correct Tom. I sometimes don’t quite get the grammar correct. Better than most, though, I think. :)

Your question 1) a,b,c and d are pointless. If you get a small colony that needs help to get it going, just provide it. You are a beekeeper, nest pass? (excuse my french) For a start, prime swarms generally don’t even need foundations to get going - although it helps. There is a mated queen...

They will shift it from below the brood nest quite quickly (especially if ‘bruised). But always at a cost, so better to be used from adjacent to the brood nest. Simple, when you think about it…

So - sorry Arfermo - you are off piste this time. Phil, I think you got the words the wrong way round!:) Clearly, I would think, he is piste off. No mention of a different climate in hooper, I suppose? That might be useful, if there is, just for a start. Different climate, different pests...

Your logic is obviously dead (where is it - right). Make your own? 3D print as many as you want, when you want. Buy an engraver and some tiddlywinks? Give it some thought, if you are able to…

Finny, I used apigaurd. It clearly did not work to the claimed efficacy. Reports from the internet showed up some serious misgivings with both sealed packs and the bulk supply. After getting what was clearly a lower kill-rate than the adverising claimed, I read the testing regime (the small...

You might ‘think’ so, but I did not. 5 or 6 frames in a box (any box) put below the brood nest for the bees to move up stores (ie the brood box had space) is not ‘nadiring’ as you should be understanding it. I could just as easily left the box empty or put an extra box with s few empty frames...

On another thread, someone said they had not been kerping bees long enough to know 9that was about varooa resistance to fluvalinates). ame applies here? Bee space has been known about ever since Langstroth a co were around! Yet not absorbed by some, obviously.

Says it all, really?

Every time I needed to check for varroa drop, I used a clean sheet for said purpose. Is this happening here? D Whatever the virologist beginners claim, what I know is that effective varroa clear-out, before the winter bees are brooded, provides a cohort of bees which survive through to...

Most anecdotes need just a little consideration to expose them as myths. If you believe everything you read, see or hear you are living in cloud cuckoo land

Not thought of simply covering those gaping holes with a tile or piece of ply? Seems simpler than making whole crownboards.

Put a box below the OMF? Bees (in 14 x 12 frames) are always between the frames, not in direct fire of draughts. That was one of thereasons for changing to that format two decades ago. Even store a few widely separated frames in that box. If clean and well separated, the will not cause any...

There we go again. Oxalic acid inhaled from sublimating bees is most definitely NOT a vapour. Oxalic acid vapourises (without going through a liquid phase) around 160 Celsius. It also condenses vack to a solid at that same temperature. By the time any oxalic leaves the hive, it will be as...

Apistan is perfectly able to kill mites. The problem surrounds the local beekeepers who use it every year or even if some of them do. It is ( or should be) well known that fluvalinate use can lead to resistant mites. I would only consider it if in an emergency (without facilities to sublimate...

Should we need to leave the varroa board under the open mesh floor in winter? Thanks The above was the initial title post. Yeah I agree...just seems odd that the manufacturers insist on putting the vents in 🤔 Simple. This relates to timber roofs. If damp gets into the space between...