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So just how did you measure the roughness of the Badger's arse????

Unless it is in arabic when you have to reverse the instructions

Mo, Could you please give the full method you use: Sawyer's Book uses Glycerine Jelly stained with basic fuchsin, Maurer's book also uses Glycerine jelly but has called in glycerine in the text. The stain is also Basic Fucsin. I have never used parctamount on pollen, and am worried that the...

Well if the workshop was on oxalic sublimation he wasn't going talk up any other method was he?

The rule of less than 3 feet more than 3 miles is based on the theory that bees forage over a 1.5mile radius. The idea being that if the distance between the two hives is less than two radii, the foraging bees might cover territory they knew from the old hive. Thus the theory is 1.5 mile radius...

saw one of those yesterday evening on willow herb, they are enormous and have fake eyes.

:iagree: I have read the FAQ which is a general sheet covering multi-climates. The important instructions are those on the label. These are the ones which apply to the medicine which you bought and are using.

Not necessarily so: the Instructions on the box state that the first tray is placed on for two weeks, after this period that tray is replaced with a second tray which is left on until the tray is empty. This might take more than the extra two weeks. The older instructions stated that the...

Came in late, if you can find a pollen load then the job is much quicker. Take the load and place in on a slide add some water rand mix it up so that the pollen separates into grains. Using a glass rod place a drop of the suspension onto a clean slide. Dry on a hot plate ( upturned tin over a...

Apiguard takes some time to kill the mites. The important thing is to do the full treatment that is first tray in for two weeks the second one is added for a further four weeks making a total treatment of six weeks. Do a mite count after the treatment is complete. It should be Zero. The one time...

Hi, The summer course at Gormanston College Co. Meath Ireland starts in two weeks time 27th July www.irishbeekeeping.ie/index.php/gormanston/lecture-workshop-information How many are coming? This is the Course that Dave Cushman raved about and recommended to all beekeepers.

:iagree: I didn't look at the photo. K wing could be due to Acarine, and is not likely to be due to nosema. Dysentery on combs is the major symptom of Nosema apis, but Nosema cerenae does not necessarily show any symptoms.

A bailey frame change is completely natural you are moving the queen only clean frames and then removing the soiled frames and disinfecting them with acetic acid (another natural product) Thymolated syrup is reputed to work for nosema however thymol does not readily dissolve in syrup. Hive...

Keith, will you put the frame into the freezer and bring to Gormanston where we can do a proper examination. To deal with the frame wrap in newspaper and then in plastic. I also protect with with cardboard. Ruary

Get someone to help you with a 'bailey Frame Change' this will move to bees onto clean combs. without loss of brood. When the brood has all hatched from the lower box, remove it and fumigate it with 80% acetic acid for a week. This will kill spores of nosema in that box and on the frames. Feed...

Remove the comb from the frame and destroy it. It probably has varroa mites in the cells. If the brood is dead there is no point in having the comb anyway. The bees can re-draw comb if you need to.

OK I understand the Big Ping, but where do rubber bands fit into a Bailey Frame change??:facts:

Well, cell cappings are naturally slightly convex. If they are flat then they must be considered to be sunken. With afb the cell contents become gooey at a certain stage, similarly the ropiness only occurs at a certain stage of decomposition. Scale, can be hard to see is the final stage of...

:iagree: The only silly question is the one you didn't ask!!

Looks very like E.F.B. to me. The matchstick test is mainly for AFB, where the thread has a characteristic appearance and will pull to about one inch. EFB has been known to thread but very much thinner.