Hi, The summer course at Gormanston College Co. Meath Ireland starts in two weeks time 27th July www.irishbeekeeping.ie/index.php/gormanston/lecture-workshop-information How many are coming?
This is the Course that Dave Cushman raved about and recommended to all beekeepers.
A firend of mine recently tried washing a cappings bowl with boiling water. She also tried tis on a metal sieve. The result, as we all know, was that there is now a coating of melted wax on the bowl and sieve.
I recommended that she tries hot water with a good handful of washing soda.
Any other...
Dear All,
I regret to have to announce the Redmond Williams' wife, Elizabeth has died, peacefully, in the early hours of this morning. She has had a long battle with cancer.
Funeral arrangements have not been made as yet.
Ruary
Just to start the thread.
Varroa jacobsoni are naural parasites of the East indian bee Apis cerana. Apis cerana and Varroa co-exist because they have evolved over a long time. Apis melifera were imported into Asia and these bees were pasasitised by the mites. These bees also seemed to be able to...