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Haven't read the entire page, but I assume you're talking about this part where they seem to declare haplo/diploid invalid?





Actually the whole thing is pretty confusing, possibly in part...

I used it last spring for the first time on a trusted friend's recommendation. We had hit a weird pollen dearth around September/October and hives just stopped in their tracks, right when I needed...

:) thanks Waterbird.

confused - what sort of poplars are you meaning?

poplars from the Populus genus are wind pollinated, and I've not known them to be a bee source (although apparently good for propolis).

or are...

Blaze, just make sure you have another adult with you - not necessarily suited up and working with you - but in the yard ready to respond in an emergency and able and game to physically drag you away...

gone2seed and Beepro.... unless you're aiming for irony or something, I'm pretty sure Boris' overcrowding reference is to the number of hives within a geographic area, not the number of bees within a...

LOL hey mate!

yeah.. gotta admit... everytime I hear "Dee's Bees" over here I do an internal twinge and think about changing my business name. :rolleyes:

Housel positioning - she orders her comb with the theory that theres an inside and an outside face to the comb - one has a right side up Y when you look at the centre of the comb, the other side has...

No kick from this direction - that's good advice.

LOL - ok, sorry,... so read the multiple stars as 'the name for a female dog'

Barry, I swear I was being technically correct... not technically swearing.

without getting into everything else..



I think you misunderstand the application of superorganism as used in beekeeping - the hive is the superorganism, not 'bees' as an entire population. ...

Happens all the time. Just a couple of months ago I put in my first load of honey for the season to our packer, and a box of honey that had been left on the hives for over winter feed was included,...

From what little I understand at this point, I think you've got the principals of spread about right, though I don't know how persistent the 'treatment' would be... whether there is a certain...

Although these two quotes run directly on from each other in Beregondo's post, I've separated them here to point out an apparent leap of.... well, I'm not sure of what.

In the first quote, no...

and unfortunately, that is often either inspired or reinforced by the dogma of some 'newer' or 'alternate' methodologies.

actually, inspired is far too soft. they are explicitly told so.

fab...

purrrrrdy, as always :)

Not sure how old the article is, but Bryce's guidedog has had to retire this year due to age, and he's currently waiting on a replacement.

As a result, the Foundation for the Blind's Guide Dog...

acres I couldn't tell you... we work in hectares. :) but without my maps, which are at home, I couldn't tell you hectares either.

We've got 11 pallets with one grower and four with another, so...

kiwi as in kiwifruit?

Kiwifruit flowers don't produce nectar - in fact we feed syrup to our hives every two days when they're pollinating kiwis just to keep them going and working on the crop...

Am seriously considering building a steam wax melter using a wallpaper steamer as in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbx-Dv5iLmA

Has anyone used similar? How long does it take to melt...

Royal jelly is a repellant to varroa. that's why they don't infest queen cells or tend to attach to adult queens, therefore you're not going to see typical varroa-carried viruses commonly in queens....

a question - every time I see this subject raised, the comparison made is sugar syrup to honey.

Surely the comparison should be sugar syrup to nectar?

Has anyone bothered to check the pH of...

heh... nope, sorry. As a past webmaster wanting some of that advertising revenue to defray my site costs, I have no problem with those sites (like beesource) who use that model. And from a user...

That's one option Cerezha - otherwise known as "CPC". The alternative "CPM" or "CPI" (cost per impression) is actually paid just for displaying the add. A much lower rate than per click,...

ah, Tammy, I'm so sorry to hear your update.

Your genuine affection for the bees has rung through often in your postings... I think what you face now is the worst nightmare for many of us.

I...