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    Vermont Anti Neonic Bill

    I use the Seresto collar on my dog and our cat that spends most of his time outdoors. We have a serious Lyme problem here. With no protection the animals come home covered with engorged ticks. The collar remains active for 6-8 months. The collar's active ingredients are imidacloprid and...
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    Vermont Anti Neonic Bill

    Have you ever had your dog die from Lyme disease? Not nice.
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    Vermont Anti Neonic Bill

    In 2017, I was a member of the Vermont Pollinator Protection Committee. Our final decision about neonics was to ban outdoor homeowner use, regulate agricultural use using an IPM approach. Pet flea and tick treatments were approved. The homeowner ban became law and those products are no longer...
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    Vermont Anti Neonic Bill

    Bill H-706 in the Vermont House of Representatives, the anti-neonic bill, has passed 112-29. After seeing my bees poisoned by maize seeds coated by Clothianadin there is hope. Now the bill goes to the Vermont Senate. This will be more difficult. Trapped pollen in my Cell Building apiary had...
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    Frame spacers

    I ripped out all the knuckle busting castellations years ago. My knuckles continue to thank me year after year.
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    What's flowering as forage in your area

    Oops, sorry for bringing Vermont terminology into it. Sugar makers are farmers who produce maple syrup. Typically in Vermont, half the syrup is made in March and half in April. This year some made syrup in January, and now it's just about over. Our local climate has gone crazy warm. Speaking...
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    What's flowering as forage in your area

    Well, I may as well just retire. Now I've seen it all. Pollen on PI day...3/14. I think it's Silver Maple, but I see no maple trees in bloom. Not even any swollen buds. The sugar makers are still boiling sap. Crazy
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    7 Beehives Stolen Llandudno

    Whatever happened to Stocks on the public green.
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    Update from the wonderful Dr Samuel Ramsay

    So the good Dr Sammy is saying Tropilaelaps might be in Ukraine. I wouldn't doubt him. It seems that Tropi mites are following the same path west that was followed by varroa. And Canada is still importing stock from Ukraine. Lovely. And from Chile...so the US border has now closed to importation...
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    Ultra Bee patties 58% protein

    I always mixed my sub on the thin side. Not so it's runny, but almost. I always sandwiched the patty between waxed paper. Then if it's too thin it won't be going anywhere. Also, it won't dry out.
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    Ultra Bee patties 58% protein

    I used Ultrabee for years. Had a great recipe…until Mann Lake changed their formula. What was mixed as before turned out soupy. I now use Global Patties with 4% pollen. Canadian company My old recipe for mixing Ultrabee dry. I make so much, I use a cement mixer 42 pounds granulated sugar 17...
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    What did you do in the Apiary today?

    Lots of reports here that the hives are getting light. Some starvation already. We've had an unusually warm winter. Almost no snow. Crazy warm November keeping the bees active way too late. Yesterday started out at 14˚F. Made it up to 41 by afternoon. Nice sunny day. Thought I'd better go...
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    Entombed Pollen

    What you're seeing as gray is really a brown propolis layer. Very thin. The light reflecting off the surface makes it look gray. Bee bread is often shiny on the surface. I don't know why. Pollen falling from the comb as powder? Dust or pellets? I can shake large amounts of fine dust from pollen...
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    Entombed Pollen

    Excellent Antipodes. Thank you.
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    Entombed Pollen

    No it isn't the same colour. Almost always brick red. When I was in Veracruz, Mexico, I saw a lot of entombed pollen. The apiary was on the edge of a coffee plantation. The coffee plants were dying from a fungal infection. I assume lots of fungicides being used there.
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    Entombed Pollen

    No, that's all bee bread. Yes, almost always shiny, but different
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    Entombed Pollen

    I've never measured it. Very thin...microns?
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    Entombed Pollen

    Sorry, I no longer have access to the contaminate list
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    Entombed Pollen

    Do you see the bee bread cells that have been covered by a thin layer of propolis? We had the entombed bee bread in those cells tested...full of agricultural and industrial chemicals. IMO, the bees are trying to isolate that contaminated bee bread from the colony.
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    Entombed Pollen

    Have you seen entombed pollen in your combs? If you did, what did you do about it.
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