Recent content by CosmoRossini

Any chance you’d share your recipe? I tried a few honey fudge recipes for the local show but couldn’t get them to set.

Would be interesting to see some research into this. I wonder if the bees adapt to use the EM fields as guides or landmarks. Someone should ask Lars Chittka 🤓

What he said 👍

Perhaps a shepherds hut would also provide some nice ascetics https://thecabincompany.co.uk/us-info/ these folks did one for me and I can recommend them. Not cheap but well made.

The most likely reason for her to stick her head in a cell is to measure its size. A normal size cell gets a fertilised egg (worker). A large cell get an unfertilised egg (drone).

Do you use Dipel on super frames?

You understand Snelgrove correctly, method 1, when queen cells are NOT present. It’s less a contradiction and more a different way. To prevent or delay swarming (as Snelgrove attempts) is to remove one of the components necessary for it to occur: Queen Sufficient brood Sufficient nurse bees...

I did this last week with a Q+ nuc adding to a very large Q- colony. The Q- colony had been Q- for 5 days, they had 1 queen cell remaining. Wednesday morning I moved the nuc into a full sized brood with stand in front of the Q- colony. Both entrances facing south. Wednesday afternoon I removed...

Spotted at a Wiltshire garden center, £7 for 340gm

Similar but different in that a Snelgrove board/method bleeds off any flying bees from box A down to box B over a couple of weeks.

The following outlines the early part of Snelgrove method 1. I’ve had brood and a half over winter and expect to find a small amount of brood in the super on first inspections today. Will put on my QX but that does mean I may have brood in the super for up to 3 more weeks. I will probably want...

The HKF colony came to me as a swarm in April. The OMF colony came to me as an overwintered colony in May. This different start in life makes me question the accuracy of any comparisons.

I intend to use HKF on both colonies next year. It will be interesting to see what the counts are like at the end of the year. I’m not convinced the HKF was the sole reason for the low varroa numbers.

used a happy keeper floor on one of my colonies this year. Did a varroa count on OMF inspection board and they had very low numbers, 7 mites after 6 days. my other colony that I had on OMF all summer had much higher numbers and I will be treating them.

Thank you.