Open mesh floor versus solid floors?

[Finman]

Those ain't Palm trees they're Cordylines.

Important is not, what they are but how things seems to be.

 

[Hivemaker.]

Important is not, what they are but how things seems to be.

Magic mushrooms.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Those ain't Palm trees they're Cordylines.

and I'm sure that's a village outside Swindon called South Marston

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Magic mushrooms.

Well he's on something - maybe some ergot growing in his rye bread

 

[barney rubble]

some people swear by using solid floors only as it makes the drone brood warmer they reckon if they are not using drone foundation

 

[For want of a better word]

Well he's on something - maybe some ergot growing in his rye bread

Traditional Finnish way to take Fly agaric was to feed the magic mushrrom to reindeer and then drink the reindeer's urine!


Hence the phrase.. Taking the Piss.......

Seriously,..... but it is a quote from the "European's guide to British Humor" by Willerby Long ( Kelliwick University Press)

Yeghes da

 

[Finman]

Traditional Finnish way to take Fly agaric was to feed the magic mushrrom to reindeer and then drink the reindeer's urine!


Hence the phrase.. Taking the Piss.......

Seriously,..... but it is a quote from the "European's guide to British Humor" by Willerby Long ( Kelliwick University Press)

Yeghes da

Nowadays we buy those mushrooms from UK even to reindeer area. They are cultivated on golf courses of Great Britain.
Our summer is too short to compete with yours.
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[For want of a better word]

Woodland and farmland ( uncultivated) near to one of my 100 colony out apiaries has had a survey of moths, butterflies and fungi plants etc etc going on for over 40 years
This year it is noticeable that the Fly agaric numbers have reduced as something it appears is eating them...badgers are prime suspect!

So the book is right about your strange customs then dear Finnie?

Yeghes da

 

[Finman]

This year it is noticeable that the Fly agaric number
So the book is right about your strange customs then dear Finnie?

Yeghes da

If you are able to read, that fly agaric story is from Siberia. You know where is Siberia? It is not in Europe.

My strange customs? I try go teach beekeeping to British hiveholders, who do not mind to extract their honey. They just "love" their bees and listen with stetoscope. One guy count the mites every day. Some try to become a millionaire with few honey jars.

 

[Stiffy]

I've been experimenting with putting the varroa board into my open mesh floors hives and noticed vast differences in terms of development from 3 seams of bees in a national brood box to 8 seams within a week. They all seem to be outperforming the hives with omf and this is working perfectly for building up colonies for the winter. I just wondered if anyone else could shed some light on this.. is it the added ambient heat in the brood nest with blocking the omf?

I run both OMF and solid and don't see any difference. Apart from allowing varroa to fall through and away from the hive, I don't think there is any difference.
I have both black bees and Buckys on most sites and the difference is noticeable in the way they build up in spring but really doubt the floor is making any difference.
S

 

[Thymallus]

Traditional Finnish way to take Fly agaric was to feed the magic mushrrom to reindeer and then drink the reindeer's urine!


Hence the phrase.. Taking the Piss.......

Think you will find it was the Inca's who first did this. They fed the mushrooms to slaves and drank their urine. All thehallucigenic "benefits" with non of the nasty side effects.
Reindeer piss tastes like................reindeer piss

 

[Finman]

Think you will find it was the Inca's who first did this. They fed the mushrooms to slaves and drank their urine. All thehallucigenic "benefits" with non of the nasty side effects.
Reindeer piss tastes like................reindeer piss

Reindeer is tamed about 1000 years ago in Scandinavia.
70% out of these Sami people live in Norway, 20% in Sweden , 6% in Finland and rest in Russia.

In Siberia there are too reindeer folks, but their origin is different and they have tamed animals By them selves.

In video there is the original wild animal, where from reindeer is tamed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awrJ8XDITQk
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