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pls show me your well documented scientific reports that you refer to - we have searched and didnt find one field study that showed that heather would be causing dysentery. Also, Alfonsus concluded already in 1935 that it was the excess water that caused dysentery not minerals. And the fact that...

Your grandfather was a clever guy, no doubt;). Heather need an extractor to remove it (punsch a hole and liquidfy it) and then it is possible to get out. We sell it as premium honey for double the price than other honey types. It appears that either people love it or they despise it.

www.dodsbisyssla.com is the right webpage for the assembly instruction

We have just finshed our wintertest where we used 100% heather honey to see if there is any truth to the myth of Heather being bad as winterfood. In 2020 we tried 30-50 % heather on all 9 hives with no winterlosses and this year we wanted to check if 100% heather would also work. At the same...

of course we have several half size hives for transportation and when they start to grow. But it is very practical to have one of these triplets on each apiary for compact fast creation of new small hives. Particlularly in order to take advantage of a swarming colony where you suddenly have 10...

Im glad you find it interesting. In the first I made I put one front and two on the sides but close to the front. In the last I built I place the two on sides more to the back to increase the distance. We use an 8 mm drill for the fluster - we want it to be as small as possible to avoid robbery...

well they have separate inner cover for all three places so we can open one at a time for manipulation. The huge advantage is that we have three small nucs in one hive so it is super quick to make them and also super quick to maintain since you can do it in one go.

Its still very cold in Sweden so no point to open up the hives yet. BUt now is the time to prepare the coming season and a triple hive for extra queens/nucs is something I can warmly recommend to build. It is always a good thing to have soem extra queens ready since things always happens...

for those who are interested, here is a test report that indeed shows that you can control the mite level with drone cut out. Evaluation of Drone Brood Removal for Management of Varroa destructor (Acari: Varroidae) in Colonies of Apis mellifera (Hymenoptera: Apidae) in the Northeastern United...

I did understand that and responded the same way, hence the smiley ;). so no worries.

Luck have very little to do with a successful method developed during many years;). If you read the whole post you'd notice that we have used, and improved, the method during several years with good results.

If u think something is impossible then don’t disturb the guy busy doing it😉. We have used drone cutout and LAT 5-6 years thus avoiding strong chemicals and still very low winter losses (read 0)

Obviously we need drones and it’s not an issue. With out method we cut out about 4500 drones and the colony produces 15-20 k drones so perhaps 1/3. The bees place drones on every brood comb around the frames so no issues. There are plenty of drones left.

well its part of our IPM based strategy that I described in detail in another post. Basically we carry out drone culling 5-6 times in the spring/early summer. After that Mite level is usually very low and we count weekly the natural mite drops. If mite drops exceeds our threshold value we carry...

Oxalic Acid (OA) and Lactic Acid (LA) works very similar since both needs to be applied on to the bees to have effect and neither of them penetrates the cells. The advantage of LA is that it is the least harmful acid, both for bees and man, and require very little protective gear. Also, since...

Hello, perhaps a bit late to answer this question correctly but I have now read many reports that touches this point. There are still no comparasive field tests (sugar vs honey as winter store) that I have seen but there are many studies that, when put together, gives a good answer. I have...

well the studies are of bees - not of humans;). Obviously location and type of bees have a big impact and if the area have a soft winter then the bees probably survive regardless what the beekeeper does. But when the winter are a bit tougher then one need to understand how the bees prefer it in...

Now we go in circles. Pls read the study I enclosed earlier for details and references. When the cold is really setting in the bees need to cluster and in order to do so in an efficient way they need empty cells. If the food is all around them they are forced to waste energu to heat up the...

why would a full super lead to demise of a colony? The bees will eat what they need and the rest will remain in the spring to be used as food for all the brood or it can be extracted as an early (or late) crop. I have not read any study that claim a colony would die of too much food, only too...

ps we use same box size for the brood and our supers in order to make life easier. That way it does not matter if the bees have brood in the food store in march - that box will then be the new BB and we simply use another box as the new super. Other may do differently and then there might be...