Recent content by thebeeman

There is an increase in drop after every treatment. Compared to a non treated cell builder the acceptance is higher and queen seem to be slightly larger and there is more royal jelly in the cells. Next season i will be weighing newly emerged Queens.

I treat my cell builders around 3 times during the season with OV. I run the same cell builders all season introducing emerging brood frames every week. So introducing mites with those frames. So the only cells mites can use for there breeding cycle are the Queen cells not perfect for the...

If you want to OV during the season the simple solution would be to just take off your honey supers Vape and them a couple of hours later put them back on. Problem solved. More beekeepers should do this if you think about it everyone treats for Varroa at the end of the year when most of the...

Look in on this forum now and again and still the same old people ripping on people instead of give helpful advice at least Tom is constructive with his help.

i think this is were the confusion first started with Clive Watson. Kent association Bromley Beekeepers passed away in his sleep on the 1st of July he also had family from Kenya

I may have to wait a bit before i start this was us on Saturday morning

All look very nice in the ideal world but !! look at the video do you see bees flying while the jars are being filled? NO Do you see other beehives in the area? NO In the real world the jars would be absolutely covered in robbing bees wasp and anything else that fancied dipping in. The...

This PDF will help as a guide http://www.food.gov.uk/sites/default/files/multimedia/pdfs/guidehaccpplan.pdf

I have found plastic foundation to be very good! You have to prime the sheets as Michael said with a good amount of wax first. Do not mix the foundation in a hive or things get very messy. I tried the complete plastic frames they were a waste of money but wood frames with plastic foundation has...

I only advise selfing as a short term solution. It gets you over the period when there are no other queens available to keep the hive viable and not a total loss. But when there is no other option i have found this works very well and on a nice warm March day i have managed to do this in under...

If you know anyone near you that can do II and you do have a DLQ you could get them to inseminate the queen with the seamen from her own drones. As long as they are mature

Trickle is not an option as i think it`s far too harsh on the bees There must be away im using a Varrox.I was thinking maybe some way via the mesh floor

Has anyone had any ideas on how to oxalic vapour a Paynes Poly Nuc box?

Makes excellent fire lighters