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Pressure washing plastic combs

How do you clean plastic combs and reuse them? Wooden frames you melt the wax from and boil. Try to do that with plastic combs and they woun’t fit in the box or anywhere else.  After scraping the sides of

Erik March 23, 2016 Uncategorized 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

MT-colony conclusion

I have shared the performance of this colony which had almost a box of plastic small cell frames and natural positioning of these frames (as the uppermost broodbox). Which also had a tough experience with mice living in the bottom

Erik July 14, 2014 Cellsize, Disease resistance, Elgon, Management, Varroa, Virus Read more

First crop from the multitest colony

Last year I gave almost a whole box of plastic frames 4.95 mm cellsize with natural positioning, http://www.elgon.es/diary/?p=384 This colony was a very nice colony, but needed some thymol as it came up with some wingless bees. It gave an

Erik July 8, 2014July 8, 2014 Cellsize, Honey, Management, Varroa, Virus Read more

Multitest colony prepare to boom

You know the MT-colony – testing natural positioning, plastic frames,  mostly honey as winter store, and a mouse nest… A couple of days ago, about 12°C (52F) and sunny, still no fresh high value pollen (some from early blooming trees).

Erik March 30, 2014 Cellsize, Elgon, Management, Overwintering Read more

Plastic positioning and the mouse

Plastic positioning and the mouse

You remember the previous post about the “multiple test”(MT)-colony, natural positioning, plastic frames, a mouse (or mice), mild winter and what a good condition this colony came out with now in spring. I’ve been thinking about it. Mild winter Yes

Erik March 20, 2014March 20, 2014 Cellsize, Disease resistance, Featured, Varroa Read more

Natural positioning, plastic frames and a mouse

 The bottom box with the cozy home of the mouse. To the right the two upper boxes full of bees, waiting for return on top of the bottom one. You know there is a front and a back, and up

Erik March 16, 2014March 16, 2014 Management, Overwintering Read more

The art of beekeeping

Hive of eccentricbeekeeper.com Foundationless Of course it’s more natural for bees to build their own combs. But is it the best for bees and beekeepers? There’s been a lot of discussion about natural beekeeping. First let us be clear. Natural

Erik November 15, 2013May 29, 2020 Cellsize, Disease resistance, Management, Varroa Read more

Quick and cheap to small cellsize

Quick and cheap to small cellsize

Do you want to regress your bees back down to a more natural cellsize in the broodnest? It can take some time and sometimes it’s a little bit tricky. Most often they fail to directly from what’s been most common

Erik May 21, 2013February 18, 2014 Cellsize, Featured Read more
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