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Sometime in all of our lives we have been the "kid" who knows nothing, most of us get through it.

All of us come into this world knowing nothing, with the possible exception of the OP.

Static electricity possibly?

This is all way above my head, but does this mean that workers in a starter hive could influence the genetic makeup of queens, ie docility of the queen etc.

Glow plugs are pretty robust, I have made 2 vaporizers and have used them on about 40 hives per year for 6 years now, and I have the tip protruding into the crystals with no problems.

The down...

Sorry I thought formic acid was used for 1 day and taken out the next, surely the rate of evaporation would mean that it was unnecessary to leave it any longer, at what % formula would last for 3...

I have been led to believe that once the queen has turned round, facing down and no longer consuming jelly, then it is safe to handle.

<The only way formic acid is effective is it lasts for more than one breeding cycle.>

Acebird I am beginning to worry about you.

The whole point about using Formic is the brief time it needs to...

The formic acid works on varroa in capped cells if all the information is correct, it was your suggestion to remove all brood from the hive, that was what I was responding to.

My take on this is that the 20% that are on the bees were already impregnated while they were in the cells. As the males do not wander round inside the hive there is no way that it could be otherwise

Was there any mention of mesh floors and varroa, I have used them but becoming more and more sceptical as to their value.

I too am pretty sure that beezly's calculation is right.

It sounds to me that the helicopter will be going anyway, so why not, the cost will not come into it.
It is a bit like us taking bees to the heather just more extreme, what I cannot understand is...

I think the concept is different, there is not many so called community beekeeping clubs to my knowledge, certainly not in the part I live. There are grants available for community projects and...

<I think the Brits are big on these...not positive.>

Are we?

I see you joined the forum 2008 and over 800 posts you must have managed up to now without these items.

I am possible wrong but I have never considered that taking a frame of eggs from a hive is going to weaken it, a frame of brood now that is different.

I am interested to know for what purpose you are banking virgin queens for a week, if it is for open mating surely it would be better to have them mated as soon as possibly and if II then I thought...

It is possible that the bees were Apis mellifera mellifera depending on which area of Ireland you were in, parts of Ireland are devoted entirely to AMM. The GALTEE strain of AMM are totally black, at...

It looks like a swarm trap, like we use to capture the queen as she leaves with a swarm.

My first responce would be to check the hive the frame came from, because that queen was not raised in the hive you found her in, the queen must have been transfered in or as fully developed queen...

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It looks like the pink pollen is being sealed with honey and not pink honey. However I could be wrong as I have never seen pink honey

It does not take long for the smell to go away, but as I have never used marshmallow I do not know if that would be long enough. If the queen is already in the hive I just use newspaper held on with...

The only thing I have found to work is nail varnish, but unfortunately it has a smell. The way I get round that is, I cage the queen and allow the bees to release her, not a problem if you are also...

RMS Titanic not HMS Titanic

One small point Anel is a company in Greece, not that it matters.