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I bought some fondant for nucs recently and have just received an email from the supplier: " Hello, I rarely send update emails but you may have noticed a shortage of sugar products. All our sugar products are on order but no confirmed delivery date due to a global shortage. Four main reasons...

I'm expecting some queens to be arrive rom the EU (Netherlands) early next week so I've duly applied for an import number. Then I received this: " Dear Importer. Thank you for logging your intent to import honey bees via the IPAFFS System. Please continue to use the IPAFFS system to upload any...

I've been doing some hygiene testing today The first clip is a bee doing it's thing while I was looking for purple-eyed brood The second clip is just as I had finished marking the sample area Unfortunately, the file-size is too big to post here so I put them on Twitter EDIT: I put the first...

I bought myself a 120 lumen candling lamp to provide cool light when grafting. I tried it out yesterday and can thoroughly recommend it.

This may be of interest to someone The National Bee Unit has vacancies for 2 Seasonal Bee Inspectors (SBI) in the East of England and preferably Norfolk, South Cambridgeshire, North Hertfordshire, and North Essex areas. If you are interested in applying for the job, please follow this link. If...

OK. I should say up-front that I would be sceptical if I read this, but I was in the apiary and watched it happen myself. On Sunday evening ~6pm a swarm came in. It alighted on one of my mating hives (which are Paynes Langstroth polynucs - big enough to be almost a hive in itself). This polynuc...

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CABK are advertising a presentation on Monday, 19th April 7:30-8:30. The topic is: "Genetic testing of honey bees for UK Beekeepers" which, I am sure, will interest many of you

The recorded EurBest presentations are available here.

I don't think any of us, as beekeepers are surprised by findings like these, but, why do people buy something they must know is fake? Is it, as I suspect, that the question is loaded to begin with (sampling bias)? By choosing the cheapest product available, are they automatically selecting those...

Kirsten Traynor taking over at Celle

3 queens were approved for propagation at the meeting on 10th March (see attached). There are also opportunities to have daughter queens instrumentally inseminated by Rene van der Molen who has micro-pipettes of drone sperm from the lines that were used on Vlieland in 2020 & 2021.

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Has anyone investigated how to report the importation of drone sperm through IPAFFS? If so, can you please tell me what code you used. I have looked at it this morning and there doesn't appear to be a code for drone sperm. I've left a message at the NBU for someone to call me back. I'm assuming...

Cannulas are very fragile and break easily. The last time I bought them, they worked out at about £5/each so, if you're going to use a lot of cannulas, it makes sense to make them yourself. I use a Schley vertical tip puller (which I think cost 7-800 Euros if memory serves me right) but it...

Here is a list of basic references to start the ball rolling: The basic concept of honey bee programmes Standard methods for rearing and selection of Apis mellifera queens Methods to estimate breeding values in honey bees Substantial genetic progress in the international Apis mellifera carnica...

Dr. Martin Bencsik from Nottingham Trent https://open.spotify.com/episode/5AJd6rH8UJGcgHf5l3CS9c?si=ckThQAs3Sj--zH_ZMjRDvw&fbclid=IwAR0c4sUjc0YMUyN1LhbkX_uuyJXxBKCgiDIX0Ifcn86wKRwE8I47hL8R3to

Some of you may be interested in the following (which I posted elswhere). Some of you won't be interested at all - let's not have the usual bun-fight please. I've just received 8 island mated queens from The Netherlands. They are all daughters of NL-55-3-8-2018 (Class A körschein) but form 2...

I wrote this for my local association but I'm reposting it here so that others might understand how/why breeders do what they do. Most people have come across a "family tree" with the maternal and paternal partners along with any progeny being shown. The honeybee "ancestry" chart is a little...

I've just received a message from one of the breeders I work with in Germany: "Express shipments currently takes 2 days, you can only send "documents" and cost 60 euros. Normal packages last 3 days, you can send "goods" and cost 20 euros." The relevance of this is that anyone importing queens...