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We had about 5% attrition through the summer, most of those probably poorly mated queens and a little under 5% winter losses this past year.

We always mix foundation in with drawn comb (when using 9 frames) either in positions 2,4,6,8 or 3,5,7. The weaker the flow the skinnier the foundation and the fatter the drawn comb though. I...

This is where it gets kind of tricky. Assuming a 1/2 cup 300 bee sample. In the spring when hives are full of brood I would consider anything running 3 or more is trouble brewing and if your mite...

Oops :p my recent bee loading hours have got me a little punch drunk.

You deserve either a full refund or a large discount if you choose to accept the packages. A package on April 1st is worth far more than one on June 1st. The other issue is shipping in hot weather...

Your are accusing me of discrediting you with your own link? That may be a first even for Beesource.

Genesgreenbook? Methinks its time to move along.....nothing to see here folks, nothing to see here.

Now the topic is vaccinations? Too bad none of us were able to experience this little dandy.

http://www.amazon.com/Smallpox-Death-Disease-Eradicating-Worldwide/dp/1591027225

Then there was...

The Percy Schmeiser case in Canada is the only one I am aware of and I think its fair to say his contentions that his gmo crop was the result of wind blown pollen contaminating his crop and not the...

Great imagination Aerindal, hopefully you can sell that screenplay but hasn't Hollywood already made enough movies like that? Perhaps, though, we should help out Andrew here and actually have a...

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This is all pretty old news.
http://www.beesource.com/forums/showthread.php?262622-East-Florida-Bee-keepers-dead-bees-figured-out

Is that the one that turned out to be a criminal case with a tank of pesticide laced syrup that got fed, killed the hives and those hives got robbed out and poisoned more hives and on and on?

I don't mean to belabor this point (and your always courteous reply is appreciated) but isn't it fair to say that had these commercial sources taken the advice of the scientists you quoted who felt...

Well that would be me but it changed my mind pretty quickly and I wasn't alone. I remember my dad in the early 90,s watching me pull full boxes of honey off of our scale hive by the honey house and...

No survivors to breed from? I am left wondering where you found bees to repopulate your hives to begin your small cell program.

Agreed, the logic does seem skewed. What reason would there be for beekeepers to make vastly different treatment (or non treatment) decisions for one than the other if there weren't vast...

That seems like supposition to me. I didnt ever treat for trachael. I suppose they were a "problem" but I never took the time or went to the expense to treat because it was so difficult to assess a...

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Having managed a commercial operation at the time we were infected with both trachael and varroa there were few similarities in the impact that the two had. Trachael was always a tough diagnosis and...

Well first of all a "loss" is a pretty loosely defined term but if the definition refers to the total hives lost in a spring to spring year the 30% figure is actually quite manageable assuming that...

Yes she may well be in your hive. Pretty good chance that she landed back on something that might carry some familiar smell in the immediate area, hopefully it was your hive, I have seen them land...

It's perhaps too late now. I have had it happen quite a few times myself and she will return more often than not. I would suggest leaving the lid off for 20 minutes or so and then checking back a...

Good points all Dan. Mite counts need not even kill a single bee, as a sugar shake shouldnt take more than 5 minutes or so. I would suggest putting everything you need including a notebook to...

I wouldn't want my silence to be construed as skepticism. I can accept that the treatment free 2001 date which means they treated for probably 10 years after first being impacted by varroa. We used...