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The best cell starter

The best cell starter

The modified Snelgrove board by Pasaga Ramic is an excellent starter board. http://www.elgon.es/diary/?p=167 Where you usually have the broodnest box(-es) – on the bottom board – you place a queenless box with bees, with or without a couple of brood

Erik June 21, 2014June 21, 2014 Featured, Queen breeding Read more

First Queen

First Queen

Beware ye old men, the day have come when women run faster. Like in the old days of the survival of farmers, when the women were the beekeepers. Well, anyway my niece (I treat her mother as my sister though

Erik June 18, 2014June 18, 2014 Breeding, Featured, Queen breeding Read more

Taking home the breeder

Taking home the breeder

A week ago I brought home the breeder queens for ease of grafting. They should at least have been treatment free last year (2013) and they should not have been a new colony 2013. The queen should be at least

Erik May 23, 2014May 24, 2014 Breeding, Disease resistance, Featured, Management, Queen breeding, Varroa Read more

We all know we need resistant bees

I love Inner Cover in Bee Culture. Almost like with poems Kim Flottum is firing up our minds with right on the spot insights and humor.  Why is it so much money in funding for finding in detail why our

Erik October 22, 2013 Breeding, Queen breeding, Varroa Read more

The best queen cell starter?

The best queen cell starter?

There are different ways of producing queen cells. It’s always good to have a number at hand, especially during the beginning of the season, but also in the middle of it. Most of the queen cells are needed for early

Erik July 14, 2013July 14, 2013 Featured, Queen breeding Read more
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