bees eating stores already?

[Finman]

Must be a special offer on industrial grade vodka in Lidl over there at the moment

Industrial grade vodka.... What is that? We have not normal alcohol in supermarkets. Lack of knowledge Jenkins and you should be man we can trust.

 

[Finman]

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Is beekeeping so difficult?

Bees store food when they get it. Then they eate stores. And we need the wisdom of Laotse to understand that odd phenomenon.
Hive has lack of food and you should add sugar to feed them. And now we are ready to discus about vanishing bees and about reasons we do not know.
Pargyle has noticed that bees store food for wintering and we should not extract that food off. He has not yet invented how to get honey on markets.

That all to "beginners in beekeeping" . ....

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

We have not normal alcohol in supermarkets. .

I rest my case

 

[For want of a better word]

Industrial grade vodka.... What is that? We have not normal alcohol in supermarkets. Lack of knowledge Jenkins and you should be man we can trust.

Everyone knows that every Fin has a still in a shed somewhere in the skogen, making the most lethal potato peelings ROM ever!

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I wonder how much sugar gets converted to pure alcohol in Finland... 75% of Lidl's sales no doubt!

Yeghes da

 

[Finman]

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I had 6 hives on spring 22ha rape field. They were there 2 weeks and they got no surplus. Temps were 15-18C.

Just now a week later I carry the last hive to another rape field. And surprise, it has got 2 medium supers full in one week. It is 30 kg. Temps have been during last week 18-22C. Normal yield even if it has been rainy days between sunny days.

I thought that bad crop depended on rape variety, soil or something unknown..

Ok. I will extract all and then feed super grade beet Sugar for Winter. 50 cents/kilo. Profit( £ 8-0.5 ) x 20 kg

 

[For want of a better word]

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I had 6 hives on spring 22ha rape field. They were there 2 weeks and they got no surplus. Temps were 15-18C.

Just now a week later I carry the last hive to another rape field. And surprise, it has got 2 medium supers full in one week. It is 30 kg. Temps have been during last week 18-22C. Normal yield even if it has been rainy days between sunny days.

I thought that bad crop depended on rape variety, soil or something unknown..

Ok. I will extract all and then feed super grade beet Sugar for Winter. 50 cents/kilo. Profit( £ 8-0.5 ) x 20 kg

That should keep you in industrial grade ethanol for the long cold sunless Arctic winter!

Think I will go back to Launceston... Tazmania and see how the black bees are doing there... if there is any leather wood left!!

Yeghes da

 

[Finman]

Everyone knows that every Fin has a still in a shed somewhere in the skogen, making the most lethal potato peelings ROM ever!


I wonder how much sugar gets converted to pure alcohol in Finland... 75% of Lidl's sales no doubt!

Yeghes da

That is all true. A Tamar Valley view on outside world.
And Tamar Valley apples. Nami.

Free hint: Count pure alcohol from chemical Formula.

 

[For want of a better word]

That is all true. A Tamar Valley view on outside world.
And Tamar Valley apples. Nami.

Free hint: Count pure alcohol from chemical Formula.

Most Tamar Valley apples make the best siideri known to man!

Yeghes da

 

[pargyle]

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Pargyle has noticed that bees store food for wintering and we should not extract that food off. He has not yet invented how to get honey on markets.

Actually Finnie, if you read my posts properly, you will see that I am not averse to feeding bees with sugar and happily take the surplus off the hives but, like many HOBBY beekeepers I like to leave my bees with honey stores to overwinter. As I have 14 x 12 hives, a well stocked brood box going into winter will usually be adequate .. I see no reason to extract any stores from the brood boxes if that is what you would do ?

I haven't extracted this year's crop yet but looking at the supers as they are at present I will have sufficient for me and my family needs and a few jars to sell. More importantly, I have healthy bees that are nice to handle and which cope with Varroa without being treated - to some of us there is more to beekeeping than just extracting every last drop of honey out of the combs. You never seem to grasp this no matter how many times people tell you.....

 

[Finman]

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I have 3 langstroth brood boxes. I extract from those normally 30 kg per hive.
The value is 200 euros when I sell it and I buy Winter Sugar with 20 euros.

My hives are really sick. However they bring often honey 100 kg per hive. Very sick, very.

By the way.it is impossible to extract last stop from hives, because 20% stays in cell Walls.

Update your Knowledge! Happy learning away...

 

[Finman]

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What is bad in your introvert attitude is that when someone has diseases in his hives, you start to poke him. Controversy, I try to help as much as I can, and I know lots about disease curing. But I think that you know nothing about diseases and curing. You just say do nothing and be patient. ... Hmm... You do not know how to act. You are frightened.

 

[mbc]

I rest my case of whisky

(Fficsed)
Forum get together to help you with that is it?

 

[pargyle]

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What is bad in your introvert attitude is that when someone has diseases in his hives, you start to poke him. Controversy, I try to help as much as I can, and I know lots about disease curing. But I think that you know nothing about diseases and curing. You just say do nothing and be patient. ... Hmm... You do not know how to act. You are frightened.

Who is this directed at ... Me ??? Or some other beekeeper on another thread or perhaps another planet by the sound of it ?

 

[Finman]

Who is this directed at ... Me ??? Or some other beekeeper on another thread or perhaps another planet by the sound of it ?

Lawyers advice: Do not admit anything, even if you are quilty

 

[Thymallus]

Think I will go back to Launceston... Tazmania and see how the black bees are doing there... if there is any leather wood left!!

You'll be please to know that they are of Yorkshire origin, the first bees exported to Tasmania came from near my local town of Thirsk.

 

[For want of a better word]

You'll be please to know that they are of Yorkshire origin, the first bees exported to Tasmania came from near my local town of Thirsk.

The DNA microsttellite analyses showed a statistical similarity to the native bees (Amm) from Ireland.............
#We shall never know if the Yorkies survived, as there is nothing left as a comparison.... after 100 years of importation of non native bees into Yorkshire!

Yeghes da

 

[Thymallus]

Probably just as well. Their descendants are useless.
But strange that they seem unaware of the Whitby Amms that are only mildly introgressed. An ideal comparison.

 

[For want of a better word]

Whitby Amms


I thought them was a shanty band!... not as famous as the Fishermen's friends.. Cornish of course!

Yeghes da

 

[For want of a better word]

Probably just as well. Their descendants are useless


How would you know... you say they was all wiped out by Acarine disease!


Yeghes da

 

[Cussword]

Fisherman's friends,,, made in Fleetwood. Lancashire