Know your enemy!

[birdsandbees]

I find the numbers 'hardly any', 'a few', 'quite a few', 'a lot' and 'oh dear' can be obtained without a hand clicker

 

[madasafish]

I was brought up in Aberdeen. The thought of paying for a counter makes me quite ill...

 

[Cussword]

I found one in a box of old stuff in the cellar. Used in the 70s when I worked the doors at the nightclubs. (Discos)

 

[B+.]

I found one in a box of old stuff in the cellar.

There you go...it just goes to show that you should never throw anything away!

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

There you go...it just goes to show that you should never throw anything away!

What about the Mills bomb I found in my grandfather's old ditty bag?

 

[B+.]

What about the Mills bomb I found in my grandfather's old ditty bag?

You can throw it away....carefully!

 

[Gilberdyke John]

What about the Mills bomb I found in my grandfather's old ditty bag?

Keep the pin

 

[BeeJuice]

I was brought up in Aberdeen. The thought of paying for a counter makes me quite ill...

£1.40? ... hope you feel better soon

When I look at what I have spent setting up over the last six months this has to be the cheapest item I've bought. You may question its usefulness, but the price is insignificant.

 

[B+.]

You may question its usefulness, but the price is insignificant.

Believe me, if you do natural mite drops properly, it'll be the best £1.40 you ever spent.

If you do 3*7-day tests now, you will get a figure for the starting infestation (denominator). You can do other tests in July that will give you the numerator.

https://youtu.be/ZCcbj1Gv9UM?t=50s

The quotient is an index that signifies how the colony is managing the varroa population and may be used to compare one colony (or line of queens) with another.

 

[pargyle]

There you go...it just goes to show that you should never throw anything away!

Yeahhhhh ... A man after my own heart .... but watch out for ... the junk police - they will be along shortly to tell you that anything you have not used for 6 months is surplus to requirements ... I have trouble with 6 years !!