Hello Sacha and Mike, I also tend to start with nucs as early in the season as possible. So that they have time to settle and build up a strong colony. But I...
I'm no expert at this, but I'd tend toward making nucs in the early part of the year as much as possible. Partly this is because I'm short of comb, aware...
I think there is an easier way. Why dont you split them in late summer, get two nucs and then make new colonies from them in the next year? You get two things...
Hello Sacha, (and all) thanks for the info. I read the site and I read the HIP breeder protocol. I do not agree on the HIP breeder protocol because they treat...
Thanks for that Sasha, Mike Hi guys, nice to see that someone found this useful, as I 've put it there (its my wiki page). but of course it was written by...
Hi guys, nice to see that someone found this useful, as I 've put it there (its my wiki page). but of course it was written by someone else and the original...
... Please sent me an invitation from your facebook page. Tjerk BEST of luck... That said, it was literally yesterday, that in responce(s) to a similar issue, ...
Hello Mike and all, Information about natural selection and the honeybee is hard to find on the internet. There is no platform, there is no organization. I...
In case its useful to anyone here I've copied below an edited section from a private conversation I've been having with publisher of a bee magazine - of...
You are quite right Tjerk. While other sources are there, we are massively crowded out by bad information, endless news stories and so on. On the newsgroups...
Hello Mike (and all group members), I have a couple of questions for you and the groupmembers. 1 The info about Natural Selection and the Honeybee is...
Hi Kathryn, You might try contacting local pest controllers. I've got most of mine that way, though I leave my number with local councils too and pick up a...
I've had lures out all summer here and hardly seen a honey bee in the garden - not a single one on a large comfrey bed or an extensive borage plantation so I'm...
Hello Tjerk, Glad you found that useful. I love your characterization: separating the Poodles from the Wolfs! Spot on! I've found some more similar stuff in...
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Tjerk van der Meché
t.vandermeche@...
Sep 20, 2011 12:37 pm
Hello Mike, thank you for the info. ________________________________ Just a quick note to introduce myself to the other group members. I am a Dutch beekeeper...
I recently came across a book containing a passage that supplies authorative support for the thesis that failure to select for health is resulting in...
hey, how are you ? Just received my 2010 Yamaha YZF-R 2010 YZFR1 R1 from this website. www. excebuy.com much cheaper than others and genuine . if you would ...
... the quality comes and goes, but among the dross there are a few gems, and a definite sense of progress. Look for the thread: Natural Cell Beekeeping. ...
Hi Everyone, A couple of snippets; There has been quite a lot of interesting action on beesource recently - the quality comes and goes, but among the dross...
Hello Everybody, Happy New Year! There seems to be an air of optimism around, a sense that our way of thinking is making inroads into the journals, forums...
... hive(s) are doing well. BillSF9c ... Seeing this in the light of a new day, perhaps I misunderstood the intent of your query... He uses flat plywood as i...
There's a John M on the Warré list that now can report that his topbar-less hive(s) are doing well. BillSF9c...
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John D'hondt
dhondt@...
Sep 21, 2009 8:42 pm
I would be very interested to find out more too John in Calgary. How does this top bar less hive work? john in Ireland Hi Ettamarie- ... Don't let that stop...
That does help! I saw a hive lifter made in Italy at the Apimondia in Ireland. I had forgotten about it until I saw those. The one on the trolley with wheels...
Doesn't lifting those upper boxes bother you or do you make them all mediums? Even a medium is 30 pounds if full of honey. Please do elaborate. ... Ettamarie...
Hi Ettamarie- ... Don't let that stop you, please. I am also old and weak, and run 20 Warre hives up in Alberta. Our weaknesses become the bees' strengths. I ...
