Queen problem, virus maybe ?

[For want of a better word]

Hia love

I'll get me wellies!!

Yeghes da

 

[pargyle]

Got to admit the Ginster Pasties are not so brilliant... I prefer a nice Welsh ****** any day!

Yeghes da

Ginsters are an apology for a cornish pasty ... But ... a genuine Cornish pasty with real meat not mush in it and pieces of vegetable that you can recognise, properly seasoned is just lovely.

There are a few 'real' pasties available if you look for them - some of the best even have a presence at events like the New Forest Show and RHS Hampton Court ... just great, filling and tasty food on the hoof ... Don't judge them all by the carp you can buy in garages !!

http://www.cornishpastyassociation.co.uk/where-to-buy/

 

[For want of a better word]

Ginsters are an apology for a cornish pasty ... But ... a genuine Cornish pasty with real meat not mush in it and pieces of vegetable that you can recognise, properly seasoned is just lovely.

There are a few 'real' pasties available if you look for them - some of the best even have a presence at events like the New Forest Show and RHS Hampton Court ... just great, filling and tasty food on the hoof ... Don't judge them all by the carp you can buy in garages !!

http://www.cornishpastyassociation.co.uk/where-to-buy/

Unbeatable.......http://www.helluvapasties.co.uk/

Yeghes da

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

sampled pasties frm all over Conwall on my travels - none much to write home about. The best Cornish pastie I tasted was from tesco in Amanford

 

[Millet]

Did it give you Heart burn,,

 

[Nige.Coll]

Tested them and it's not nosema. They are clear of it.

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[For want of a better word]

Tested them and it's not nosema. They are clear of it.

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Thank the Lord for that !.... now what about those pastie lookalikees?

Yeghes da

 

[Nige.Coll]

I'm not testing those

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[Monsieur Abeille]

The lady who runs the very good cheese shop in MM is also a beekeeper.

PH

That is a brilliant shop

 

[Into the lions den]

Unbeatable.......http://www.helluvapasties.co.uk/

Yeghes da

I LOVE good quality pasties.......flew home from Newquay once after exploring a possible joint venture with a farm company (did not happen) but actually took 40 pasties, still warm, from a shop in the town, home with me as my handbaggage in the overhead lockers........the nicest smelling flight I was ever on. Still warm in Edinburgh and my staff and family ate about half of them and froze the rest.......yes, quite unlike the 'made to a fixed low price' ones available normally.

 

[Nige.Coll]

So no idea about what's up with the dodgy queen then lol.
Maybe I'll try giving her a pasty from Greg's.

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[Into the lions den]

So no idea about what's up with the dodgy queen then lol.
Maybe I'll try giving her a pasty from Greg's.

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Guilty as charged....lol.

However there are a few scenarios but the most likely....nosema...which need not be ceranae...has been mooted already.

However this debilitation of the queen used to be not unknown, especially with some of the less adapted stock that came in in the medium past. Saw it especially with a neighbouring beekeeper who bought the golden NZ queens and thought it to be acarine. The queen was slow, trembling a bit, and her abdomen was not quite the correct shape, a bit more pointed yet also somewhat flattened looking.

I had a discussion about this a long time ago (on Bee-L I think) with Norman Carreck, on the subject of it being a viral issue. One of the paralysis viruses was frequently (though not invariably) found in colonies with acarine, possibly the same conditions ere favourable to both.

Be it acarine, nosema, OR indeed a virus, there is not a lot you could do about it and the general tone of advice was sound.

 

[Nige.Coll]

She is marked for the boot. Now it's not nosema I can unite them safely.
She was raised by a friend from carniolan stock. Not a bloodline I want.
Just very strange behaviour.
The advice was appropriate as always. Better than anywhere else.
I do find the pasty stuff funny


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