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Tangential or radial extractor? If radial, it is possible to extract unwired frames, take it slowly at first. If tangential still possible but evn more care needed probably have to turn the frames twice to prevent the wax blowing out.

The bees will gather water to dissolve the granulated sugars,

Bees forage for pollen so pollen analysis on the pollen pellets will identify those flowers. For analysis of honey the pollen grains examined are those from the nectariferous flowers where as the bee gathers nectar pollen grains are disturbed into the nectar and carried adventitiously with the...

The books on Pollen Analysis and Honey Identification by Rex Sawyer give clear instructions on how to make slides from pollen collected from flowers and also from honey. The book on Pollen identification gives a key for identifying 134 plants from their pollen, The book on honey has fewer plants...

Well i do wish that you would get your facts right! There is a formulation utilising oxalic acid which is registered for use in Italy, UK, and Ireland It is called apibioxal and the active ingredient is 97% pur oxalic acid.

It just happens to be illegal in UK and Ireland

But not Nosema apis in fact one way of obtaining pure N. apis is to freeze a sample of mixed species when only N.apis remains alive.

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Oh I just lurk around

If you are sure that it is nosema and not any of the foul broods then scrape off stains and fumigate with 80% acetic acid. there would be be no need for scorching. If you think it might be the foul broods then burn the combs and frames and scorch the rest.

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But Ron Brown and honey by the ton are not in the Cornell site.

Your points do not address the question of copyright do they? Anyhow borrowing from a library is not giving the borrower a copy for him/her to retain.

Are these books free of copywrite? :hairpull:

Yes to both, but the louse has been killed by Varroa treatments and is ow very rare in ireland