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Build It Yourself - Equipment Plans in PDF format Solid, bee-tight hive equipment is necessary because any secondary openings will be eagerly sought by bees to avoid passing through the pollen trap grid Two pollen trap designs are described
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bee blower - Beesource Beekeeping Forums What experience have you had with the use of bee blowers to vacate bees from supers? Positive or negative, and why What hints, techniques, and suggestions apply? What works better?
Breeding and Genetics of Honey Bees - Beesource Beekeeping Forums The family relationships within a colony of bees are different from other agriculturally important animals as a consequence of mating habits, social structure, and drones developing from unfertilized eggs The honey bee colony found in nature is a complex family group, best described as a superfamily This superfamily (fig 1) consists of: (1) one mother queen, (2) several father drones
Known beekeeping scammers | Beesource Beekeeping Forums Bee scams are very common on Facebook Lots of fake profiles offer nucs and equipment There's a good group that tracks these scammers and keeps a database of known bee scammers Before buying bees from anyone, check to make sure they are not on the scammer list
Bee Songs | Beesource Beekeeping Forums Song challenge Anyone have some good honey bee beekeeping songs? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Varroa Mite Blues (R Naylor) The varroa is a little red mite, comes from Asia they say, All the way round the world, and its livin in the USA, (chorus) Just lookin for a home, living on the comb The first time I saw a varroa mite, it was sittin on some comb, Next time I saw her, she wasn't alone Well the
The Honey Bee Solution to Varroa | Beesource Beekeeping Forums Great presentation from Mr Steve Riley from this year's National Honey Show just dropped He and Dr Stephen Martin host and maintain varroaresistant uk and work closely with the growing cohort of TF beekeepers in the UK A few slides outline the fundamental dynamics at work in the colonies
Bee Weaver Queens | Beesource Beekeeping Forums Ive been hearing how good Bee Weavers Queens are The question I have is what about some AHB genetics in these queens? Im not trying to start a fight here I just want to know if folks know if some of these queens will carry the AHB traits My bees are not the friendliest around anyway As of
Large-scale Honey Bee Die-off in the United States Bee brokers typically source rental hives by reaching out to large-scale commercial beekeepers who have previously participated in migratory pollination However, they could not rent enough healthy bees as many of these same large-scale beekeepers experienced massive colony losses