Over winter colony

[Finman]

. I hear lichen is disappearing, affected by global warming, reducing reindeer feed up north.

Too many reindeers there. Sometimes, like a year ago, snow was so thick and icy, that animals cannot dig food.

 

[Repwoc]

Check the price of Thymol;

https://www.bees-online.co.uk/products/category/search/THYMOL-CRYSTALS-500G
Enough to last several years, now that we can't use it for treating varroa. ~$0.07 / g, 1 g will treat 1.5 US gallons of syrup.

https://beekeepingforum.co.uk/threads/what-to-do-about-nosema.702/post-49691
I believe that thymol is regarded as an organic treatment and small quantities are found naturally in honey. Bleach? I'm not feeding that to my bees.

Nosema is not, has never been, an issue thanks to mild winter

Lucky you. Not the case for everyone though, is it?

ACV (a major attractant of SHB).

Why do you want to attract SHB?

 

[Earthboy]

>Why do you want to attract SHB? Meant to be a warning but some use it in beetle traps, placed in-between frames.
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[Repwoc]

>Why do you want to attract SHB? Meant to be a warning but some use it in beetle traps, placed in-between frames.

Ah, I see. I'll bear that in mind. I guess it'll come here one day.

 

[Earthboy]

Ah, I see. I'll bear that in mind. I guess it'll come here one day.

Its efficacy is subpar. Hope you don't get them at all but when they do, I will assist you with better measure. In the meantime, let's get out there and have some fun with bees!

 

[Sayle]

Yes, but very pricey compared to bleach or ACV (a major attractant of SHB).

Is it? I got a 100g container of thymol crystals for £6. I used 30g in my solution: £1.80 worth. That solution came to 150ml total. I use 2ml every time I fill the rapid feeder with syrup, which is approximately 2 liters. So everytime I feed the bees a human body-weight in sugar (not syrup, sugar!) I spend less than £2.

That is not expensive. Make up the solution once and use it for the rest of the year.

 

[Earthboy]

You win. Thanks for the input.

 

[Etton]

Whilst wanting to be internationalist, on a uk forum i feel it would be helpful if posters indicated early in their post from which country they are posting from ( apart from Finman, whom we all know) . Hope this doesn’t sound like little Englander, but I have to keep check to see where the poster is from.

 

[user 20297]

I have to keep check to see where the poster is from.

You just need to look at the side-bar with most people; as in...you're from East Yorkshire, I'm from Scotland and so on. No-one starts their post with, "I'm from.......".

 

[user 819]

Agree side bar usually has the geographic location.

 

[Repwoc]

I'm from Scotland

Are you?

 

[drdrday]

You just need to look at the side-bar with most people;

Unfortunately there's no sidebar on a mobile device. It does make it trickier. You have to click on a poster's name to see their location instead.

 

[user 20297]

Are you?

Oops...yes. However, in my settings it does say "country flag, Scotland"; I will investigate.

 

[user 20297]

Oops...yes. However, in my settings it does say "country flag, Scotland"; I will investigate.

....sorted, but I don't know where my flag has got to...maybe I have to pay for that?

 

[Erichalfbee]

....sorted, but I don't know where my flag has got to...maybe I have to pay for that?

Considering the wealth of information and entertainment here it’s a good idea to pay your subs anyway

 

[user 20297]

Considering the wealth of information and entertainment here it’s a good idea to pay your subs anyway

I still didn't get my flag.