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Nice answer,but i think you misinderstood something,cause that's excactly the advantage of Renson,after it's installed(on second lvl),we only need to check the lower lvl once and the renson another two or maibe 3 times(just 6 frames,frame 7 is a drone frame) and then the swarm urge is gone and...

An endless discusion i guess,put them on Renson and the urge to swarm disappears after good 9 days,one more q-bubble check up on the lower level and done for the season,we never found out any negative aspect on it,has nothing to do with domesticating or not,it's a system and one that works and...

There are "vented" hornet suites availeble,but even more expensive,very light to wear tho,worth the money if you need to work in them a lot,sold by edialux.

W've made a hornet buster team here,most secundairy nests are real high up,so the team has industrial rope workers to get us to the nests,but hej now,last week we found one 20 cm above the ground builded around a oaktree,thing is 10% don't move to a secundairy nest and just build out their...

Most likely y've swung your honey with a to high moist lvl and it fermented,we only swing under 18% and never have this happening,maibe can consider to try to make mede with it,there is a market for that stuff.Two advices,either only swing fully capted frames or get yourself a moist messurer.

Have no clue about studies,only can talk about experience,we just make a regular concentrated sugar solution,about a 100 gallon,400 liters,then add invertase what is an enzyme,put a pump in and let it circulate for about a week,the warmth of the pump is enough to finish the process,you end up...

Why you say swarming is hardly to prevent,we never ever had any swarming as long as i can remember,it's deadsimple to prevent,w've 34 hives atm,so it's not just one or two.Maibe best try to read in on the Renson system and improved Renson system before making such statement.

Today 17 nov,had a look around today,before posting this,cosmeas,borage,malva and hotlips still going strong,eupatorium and hedera almost done guess another 5 days or so,mahonia media,ball vibirnum and helleborus niger off for a good start,will keep blossoming all winter ,soon expecting first...

I've planted "hot lips" for the first time and real early.My goodnes what a wunderfull plant,it's blossoming since may and still is,during,this tiny plant grew over two square meters wide.

w've a lot of leaf raddish in flower and that looks a lot as rapes,it's seeded as greenfurtuliser.

yep,borage seeds out,i've it popping up allover.

Well Finman has it incorrect,w've a personal orchard near our hives and they clearly go for half rotten apples and in autum grapes,and they go plenty for it,not just a couple.

I collect my empty coke cans on a heap in the back of the garden,all year round,from mid october onwards my bees go for them,the rest of the year they get ignored.

Same here veeeery good late season/winter plant,but the girls clearly prearing for winter,they collect loads of propolis from the wallnut trees.

Depends bit on the situation,at stand2 w've a row with 7 nucs,one is from starters bit more defensive but still manageble,so that one got a marker,or as in kindergarden a red sticker for bad behaviour,after first harvest next spring w'll decide,thing is, bit more defensive hives often are the...

ow,no it's not a uk thing,it's mainly a strain thing,and selective breeding towards less swarm "itches".W've peeps enough having what's called in flemish,before and after swarming,it's what keeps us busy go swipe them.Last year we had a sweaped colony that would have swarmed every 3 weeks if we...

Never had it happening,we always leave 2 or 3 bubbles in a hive that was used for q-breeding,otherwise we always as you say lead in a mated one,but,easy talking since w've always plenty as spares and different strains of bees have different swarm "itches" ours hardly ever,as excample,once they...

Seeds go two ways,one way are beefriendly mixtures of local wildflowers,that i seed out spreaded over 3 goes,mid may,mid june and mid july on 3 different patches and two,as far as seeding myself goes,mainly dahlia's,they are just too easy,i seed couple two meter rows,that gave me around 400 tiny...

If you ever later on try this again,leave them a few cells,and no that won't cause swarming,normaly the first one that hatch will sting the remaining q cells.

sorry about the beercrate thing,so,in a rucksack/backpack,well,just quickly did an experiment,but it will depend on the diameter and hight of your jars,but i did cut off the top of a 1,5 liter plastic waterbottle and could easely slide 3 jars in,the bottle is rinkled so that's the protection...