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I hear from a lot of folks that they pile them in a box in the bee yard (under a screen bottom board would be perfect) and let the wax moth clean them up.

They say that memory is the first thing to go....that is to say that we did shoot a video, and have had it available online for years.

https://vimeo.com/20549944

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Err, in this case, it is borderbeeman who is the victim of good old fashioned American manners....having been accused of promoting conspiracy theories. There is plenty to criticise here, but this...

Really?

We've been to his home yards.....an impressive number of colonies, and a well thought out and run nuc production system.
It would be hard to imagine this yard being a problem for anyone. He also...

Fortunately, we have Boarderbeeman to "fix" such misleading quotes so that they more accurately reflect the truth...or something.
:rolleyes:

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Except that is not what is being claimed by border.
...not much wiggle room there to claim that they "might be", when the claim is that they "ARE".

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It wasn't so long ago that the common wisdom was that one couldn't overwinter nucs in the north reliably.

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This would give me a huge belly laugh...if it wasn't so sad. The idea that if someone isn't posting to beesource, it must be because they are avoiding it or scared isn't a new one. What an absurd...

http://www.beesource.com/forums/showthread.php?278944-Treatment-Free-Commercial-Beekeepers&p=920600#post920600

That would be a great point...except that it doesn't apply to Tim's management.

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It blows my mind that anyone would spend so much time assuming the details of a beekeepers system...and sharing them. All of the statements and assumptions to this point in the post are not true, at...

...I think the answer is 'a pallet of nutribee' ::eek:

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...and the test results?

Conventional beekeeping doesn't involve losing hives? :scratch:
I'm assuming your new tagline will be "real beekeepers don't lose hives"?

Speaking for myself...I'm _not_ an evangelist....and I...

Many of us spend a great deal of time and energy doing exactly that.
I'm not really sure how anyone can make anything "clear" under these circumstances. What you've told us is that a person read...

There are a lot of misconceptions that beginning beekeepers pick up. Some of them involve treatment free or "natural" methods...most do not.

For years, our state association president would tell...

AFB and EFB display very different symptoms. It should not be so easy to confuse one for the other, and an inspector should know enough to send samplease to Beltsville. Was the affected brood...

The Mann Lake system is the EZ Queen. It is expensive and cumbersome....unless you are going to do thousands of queens at a time with limited resources. This makes the most sense if one is...

If I wanted to reinforce comb, this is what I would do.


I think it would be less work (and more useful) to make a jig that positions a horizontal bar properly. You would also have pretty good...

Rob provided a lot of very good information on this forum. I know I'm not the only skeptic that was impressed by some of his posts here...there had to be some actual understanding of the topics.
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When I saw Sam Comfort in February, he told me about a beekeeper he is working with in Hawaii.

Her method of extracting foundationless combs is to only uncap one side first, spin ALL the honey out...

We routinely extract from unwired foundationless deeps. A tangential extractor probably helps support the comb.

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Actually, no.

Wire certainly does add some strength to seasoned comb, but the force of honey laden fresh comb vs. the small surface area of wire might assist a bit in handling...but against the...

That's only partially a "safety thing". It's primary purpose is to push the stock against the fence. A jointer indexes from the perpendicular side (hence, the spring loaded pressure against the...