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Seems as though it has bee around for a few years now... I called it the Danish Pastry Virus, because the capping looks swirly like a Danish Pastry.... some took a dim view of this descriptive term. Hivemaker posted some of my images... Giles Budge seems not to be interested... samples have...

Managed... despie yet another swarm collection... to get to the 25 OSB Rose hives in the Cornish Native Black bee apiary... haven't lifted a lid on them for over a month due to having to check my bees local to the EFB swarm incident! No queen excluders to worry about and all had queens laying...

Maisemore delivered my broods frames and wax within 3 days of the order... but The Beekeepers Wife does have a persuasive way with folk especially when a £1K purchase is on the cards!!! In spite of collecting out of reach swarms we still seem to find time to make up the boxes and frames and get...

If you just wanted them cleaned out you could have put them under the brood with a 9mm lath to give an undefended entrance... depends if you have help in lifting! Chons da

I seem to get better results by placing the day 14 queen cells directly into the mating nucs, then if emergence is a day early or a day late it is of no consequence. Similarly ( day 14) if hatching in an incubator.... unless you are raising 100s and need the hive space! Chons da

Only pen I had in my pocket! I keep the pink pen for "datifying" drones ( That's the Boy Bees!)... also orange and purple.... our drone supply colonies can get to be a kaleidoscope of colors Chons da

Quite agree Paul.... but friends and neighbors! Chons da

added a few more meters to ours Video by my No1 Son.... accomplished underwater photographer and occasional reluctant beekeeper! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StqK2iWprE0&fbclid=IwAR1sKJiDM_EQQBX1pDV8xxqWuVMYFgQbjy3P_-PNPG0-mvZN7wOi4Q1gxVA Yeghes da

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StqK2iWprE0&fbclid=IwAR1sKJiDM_EQQBX1pDV8xxqWuVMYFgQbjy3P_-PNPG0-mvZN7wOi4Q1gxVA Yeghes da

Compared to a syndicate ticket for our local carp fishery.... £220 is a snip!! Chons da

Curly Ol' pal... you are far more intelligent than a few beekeeper I have the misfortune to know:calmdown: Your labels look good! Yeghes da

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Well done! Now let us all be on the look out or EFB.... particularly around Kit Hill in East Cornwall.... a beekeeper somewhere has lost a blue marked queen with a swarm infected with EFB.. just hope the SBI finds them and deals with the situation in the time honoured way (...

Old 27th August 2018, 10:08 PM #17 Hivemaker. Queen Bee Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Exmoor. Posts: 14,310 Hive Type: National Default ....like this... Attached Thumbnails Click image for larger version Name: thumbnail_DSC02807.jpg Views: 48 Size: 218.2 KB ID: 16008 Click image for...

For sniffy Hivemakers post... my images

Nice to be on the same page sometimes... see the local carp pond is open again for business... socially isolating of course!

Had a little bonfire to celebrate a swarm carrying EFB taking up unwelcome residence in an empty hive! Yeghes da

Hivemaker posted images from me a couple of years ago when the more astute Beefarmers among us started to see a new problem. Yeghes da

Thanks C Worry is that somebody close by has a colonies infected with EFB that this swarm emerged from. Destroyed with petrol last night... a horrible death for the bees... a thousand tiny screams... then total silence. I did not sleep very soundly last night! As for the "Danish Pastry...

Elation and then dismay... Sorry to hear the news, Guy. They usually recommend shook swarming if the colony infection is less than 20%; above that it becomes destruction. Trick is to feed and build the shook swarms before wasps and robbers become active. Me too... sad and harsh.. best to destroy...