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    Dee Lusby's secret of resistant bees...DNA

    I tried to find out a DNA research about Lusby's bees, but I did not find. It is about 15 years when I last read about them. Lusby himself tells about small cells in google.
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    To specify honey dew

    A research from Morocco Honey Dew makes think that it is very difficult to an ordinary beekeepers. You can see something with microscope, it needs much chemistry to find out honey dew.
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    Splended Blenheim palace videos in youtube

    Thanks to special bees of Blenheim I started to look videos of Blenheim Palace. Amazing place and amazing happenings!
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    Does Lasi queen project continues

    I saw from google, that University of Sussex offered hygienic queens to be sold in the year 2016. The project had private funding. I did not find new information. Does the project continue in some form?
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    SITUATION OF POLLEN BEFORE FEEDING

    Bees need pollen frames during winter. First they need pollen in autumn when last bees emerge. They must eate pollen to make their fat body ready. If the pollen frames are situated in their original summer places, against the wall and in the lower box, pollen will get easily condensation...
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    What are hormones and what are pheromones?

    Hormones move messages via blood circulations and pheromones move messages via air. But one thing more: what are names to the things which move from mouth to mouth in the beehive. Not via air and not via blood?
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    Bumbble bee licking aphid juices

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    What is hopelessly queenless hive?

    . What is difference between queenless and hopelesly queenless? Hopeless term has been used more and more insted of normal queenless hive in this forum. I have met the hopeless term in worker laying cases, when the hive has no queen and no hope to rear a queen. The queen has died or...
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    EVERY day to learn something new

    I have doubted it , but now I bought Samsung Galaxi Today I learned to open answering of the phone. NeXT Job is to get automatic writing off .
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    EVERY day to learn something new

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    How common EFB in the UK

    . Are the different races more or less vulnerable to EFB? - black bee - carniolan - italian - buckfast - different mongrels - consentrations in local bees Lets say, last 5 years. Is there any research about genetic advantages on "local" bees, or is it better to buy resistant genes outside...
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    How spring build up explodes?

    . Many say, that they have small winter clusters but then colonies explodes. This spring has been warm and the build up has bee optimal. Bees have got more than needed willow nectar and pollen. In two weeks some strong hives have brought willow honey 10-15 kg. But the explosion: After 3 weeks...
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    One new reason to winter losses

    I saw on Beemaster forum big winter loss numbers. One inspector has writen in his article that youtube is one of the biggest reasons.
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    Document about hygienic bee freedin

    https://honeybee.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/BeeSci-Hygienic-Behaviour-Report-Tas-1.pdf
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    fast degeneration of new bee stock

    . I have started to try Buckfast bees. My normal bee stock is Italian. I bought first buckfasts 4 years ago. I started to buy Italians and Buckfast from 1000 hive owner 4 years ago, and I found them good. Not all were so profitable . But now I have noticed how fast original features of...
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    Nectar in brood combs

    . It is good sign. Bees spread nectar to dry up everywhere when it is a good flow. That is why hive needs 3 supers when they get one capped honey super. If nectar layer is thick in the cell, it takes more time to dry up. It means much, how dry is nectar when bees bring it home. Do not push...
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    have you noticed honeydew on tree leaves

    . You have out there hot dry weathers, and good flow. Have you noticed sugar syrup on tree leaves and bees sucking the stuff from leaves? .
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    Snow cover and brood

    . When there is one week snow cover, bees cannot get drinking water from snow. All larvae will die or eaten off. IT means that 2 weeks' laying will be away. .
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    Energy consumption in the hive

    . It was a question, how much a colony consumes energy and how much it produces heat. The watt (symbol: W) is a unit of power. In the International System of Units (SI) it is defined as a derived unit of 1 joule per second, Joule is 1 W per second. One kilo sugar has about 17.000.000 J 1...
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    Polar vortex

    . IT has been written quite much about forecasts now. A week ago TV forecasted that weathers will become really cold. Now quite well forecast has became true. A week ago it was forecasted that nights will be -8 but now forecast is - 20 every night next 5 days. What I do is that I put a...
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