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Reworked website with new info

Hello dear beekeepers! I’ve been reworking my old website. not my blogs. The English part became ready enough to be published and I launched it on http://elgon.es There are quite some new material there. In the article “Resistance breeding” some of

Erik December 26, 2016 Breeding, Cellsize, Elgon, Uncategorized, Varroa resistance Read more

Lasting learning?

In one of the recent blogposts I wrote about non-resistant bee colonies against varoa mite, learning from resistant worker bees how to deal with the mites and being resistant. It seems now that these colonies that has learned resistance have

Erik October 3, 2016 Breeding, Cellsize, Varroa resistance Read more

Small cell size important in breeding Varroa resistance

After reading the blogpost ”Breakthrough?” an European PhD-Scientist wrote me an email with the following comment: ”After reading your post I realized that you do have small cell size, but you’re not mentioning it in the actual post. To make

Erik July 30, 2016July 31, 2016 Breeding, Cellsize, Varroa resistance Read more

Struggles for the survival of honey bees

Struggles for the survival of honey bees

SB is a relatively new and dedicated beekeeper in southern Germany. She is interested in different kinds of bees and their place in the ecological system. I asked her to tell her story and her struggles helping her bees to

Erik June 6, 2016 Breeding, Cellsize, Featured, Nature and man, Treatment free, Varroa resistance Read more

Learning and teaching

  Hans-Otto Johnsen was very skilled already in his youth keeping old American cars and trucks going. That skill can be very handy for a commercial beekeeper. For many years he worked as an expert on explosives, but he got

Erik April 4, 2016December 10, 2017 Breeding, Cellsize, Disease resistance, Elgon, Treatment free, Varroa resistance, Wax Read more

A locally adapted Varroa resistant bee stock

A locally adapted Varroa resistant bee stock

http://www.happyhollowhoney.com/ Richard Reid in a Virgina rural area in the US began with bees 1973. Beekeeping was simple, almost only it consisted of putting on and removing supers. By 1995 all of his bees died due to the Varroa mite.

Erik January 23, 2016April 28, 2016 Breeding, Cellsize, Featured, Feral bees, Treatment free, Varroa resistance Read more

Cell size affects water content

Cell size affects water content

I started taking down my bees to small cell size 15 years ago. 10 years ago I had combs with 4.9 mm, 5.1 mm and 5.4 mm cell size in the supers. At one time I did some measurements of

Erik October 26, 2015October 26, 2015 Cellsize, Featured, Honey Read more

Free bees

This year is a year of swarms in Sweden. The weather is chilly and damp. Bees are sitting a lot inside having little to do but making queen cells. Maybe like many others in such a situation, thinking of reproduction.:)

Erik June 19, 2015July 14, 2015 Cellsize, Swarm, Wax Read more

Understanding history

The first commercially wax foundation, in USA 1876, produced by A.I. Root, had imprints for 5 cells per inch for worker cells, a little less than 5.1 mm cell size. That was said to be an average of cell sizes

Erik February 8, 2015November 3, 2015 Cellsize Read more

Small cells and VSH

Small cells and VSH

There have been numerous tests of varroa reproduction with bees on different cellsizes throughout the years, with the assumption that you then test varroa resistance. As far as I understand that can be true, but you don’t know to what

Erik November 13, 2014 Cellsize, Featured, VSH Read more
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