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 Topic: Wasp in top feeder |
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| Norm Replies: 7 Views: 11057 |
 Forum: URGENT Help needed now! Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2015 12:21 pm Subject: Wasp in top feeder |
| Briefly, it was me, when I was admin of this forum, who instigated the requirement for adding your location. Having experienced beekeeping in 3 countries all with different climates, I had realized th ... | |
| Topic: Queen Rearing in a Single Top Bar Hive using a Cupularve |
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| Norm Replies: 12 Views: 32653 |
Forum: Horizontal top bar hives Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2014 7:43 pm Subject: Queen Rearing in a Single Top Bar Hive using a Cupularve |
| It's been a long time since I first posted this but it does indeed have to be solid in order that those bees within know that they are queenless. If queen pheromones can be sensed/passed to them it wi ... | |
| Topic: Nuc to Warré Hive |
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| Norm Replies: 30 Views: 86621 |
Forum: Beginners start here Posted: Fri Jun 07, 2013 10:11 am Subject: Nuc to Warré Hive |
| The grow down method will work if you provide them the means! Wax small pieces of spare comb between the middle top bars, set on top so that when it is put under the box above it will crush slightly ... | |
| Topic: Mesh floor material |
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| Norm Replies: 69 Views: 208797 |
Forum: Horizontal top bar hives Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2010 7:47 am Subject: Mesh floor material |
| http://www.themeshcompany.com/acatalog/Beekeeping_Varroa_Mesh.html | |
| Topic: Mesh floor material |
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| Norm Replies: 69 Views: 208797 |
Forum: Horizontal top bar hives Posted: Wed Apr 21, 2010 11:23 am Subject: Mesh floor material |
| Beg to differ! The adult mite is 1-1.8 mm long and 1.5-2 mm wide. I have used 2mm mosquito netting before. Of course they have more chance of latching on to a 2mm hole than a 3mm hole but I think it w ... | |
| Topic: Hypothetical chat - What if imports were banned. |
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| Norm Replies: 24 Views: 54151 |
Forum: Wild and feral honeybees and other bee species Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2010 9:19 am Subject: Hypothetical chat - What if imports were banned. |
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Thank you Norm, although I'm sorry I touched a nerve in doing so. 
I wasn't trying to bait you into a response but better understand your thoughts on what would you and others think would happ ... |
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| Topic: Hypothetical chat - What if imports were banned. |
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| Norm Replies: 24 Views: 54151 |
Forum: Wild and feral honeybees and other bee species Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 6:09 pm Subject: Re: Hypothetical chat - What if imports were banned. |
| ...this problem but would the pollination industry collapse very quickly. Which in turn would mean some crops may suffer as a result. Or may be the farmer would pay to employ their own bee keepers to ... | |
| Topic: Hypothetical chat - What if imports were banned. |
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| Norm Replies: 24 Views: 54151 |
Forum: Wild and feral honeybees and other bee species Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 5:14 pm Subject: Re: Hypothetical chat - What if imports were banned. |
Mike, I was going to answer your points one by one but I think it would be much quicker to say that I just about disagree with all of your assumptions!  |
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| Topic: Top Bar Hive inspection frequency (Solved, thanks to Norm) |
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| Norm Replies: 62 Views: 118339 |
Forum: Beginners start here Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 10:26 pm Subject: Top Bar Hive inspection frequency (Solved, thanks to Norm) |
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| Topic: Top Bar Hive inspection frequency (Solved, thanks to Norm) |
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| Norm Replies: 62 Views: 118339 |
Forum: Beginners start here Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 6:57 pm Subject: Top Bar Hive inspection frequency (Solved, thanks to Norm) |
| Opening paragraph of the above book reads:-
All year round it is through this little opening that the life of a colony pulses. Here it breathes and rejects all that it will not tolerate in its do ... |
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| Topic: Top Bar Hive inspection frequency (Solved, thanks to Norm) |
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| Norm Replies: 62 Views: 118339 |
Forum: Beginners start here Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 5:55 pm Subject: Top Bar Hive inspection frequency (Solved, thanks to Norm) |
| There is a whole book devoted to the subject called at the hive entrance by H. Storch it was translated from the German version which was called Am Flugloch | |
| Topic: My IPM |
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| Norm Replies: 21 Views: 64550 |
Forum: Bee health: the treatment (or not) of bee pests and diseases Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2009 8:43 am Subject: My IPM |
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Bernhard has mentioned the policy now and agin on various threads all of which I cannot put my finger on so I hope he will be along and point them out. I think this article written by ... |
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| Topic: Top Bar Hive inspection frequency (Solved, thanks to Norm) |
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| Norm Replies: 62 Views: 118339 |
Forum: Beginners start here Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2009 7:40 am Subject: Top Bar Hive inspection frequency (Solved, thanks to Norm) |
| In my experience of both Framed hives and TBH's, I have found minimal interference works better with TBH's. The main reason I say that is because bees will propolise frames into position making them v ... | |
| Topic: My IPM |
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| Norm Replies: 21 Views: 64550 |
Forum: Bee health: the treatment (or not) of bee pests and diseases Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 10:05 am Subject: My IPM |
| Looking back at some of the older posts, I realize that I need to update this thread. I have now decided to adopt the 'Live and let Die' policy mentioned by Bernhard in other threads. Basically for tw ... | |
| Topic: Simple hive-building jig |
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| Norm Replies: 27 Views: 80320 |
Forum: Horizontal top bar hives Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2009 8:08 am Subject: Simple hive-building jig |
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Have you thought about getting together with a local woodworker and making these to order. With the jigs and all and using economies of scale, they could be turned out for a reasonable price ... |
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| Topic: New portable TBH |
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| Norm Replies: 46 Views: 138514 |
Forum: Horizontal top bar hives Posted: Sat Apr 04, 2009 7:14 pm Subject: New portable TBH |
| I really like the folding A frame support. Does it have a geometric lock to stop it splaying apart. I know the notches would prevent this but setting up it could be helpfull. A full length one is doab ... | |
| Topic: Finding Feral Bee Colonies - Beelining |
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| Norm Replies: 17 Views: 56764 |
Forum: Wild and feral honeybees and other bee species Posted: Mon Mar 09, 2009 9:39 pm Subject: Finding Feral Bee Colonies - Beelining |
Hello and welcome my good friend John. 
Great to see you here, I noticed you joined a little while back and was hoping you would post. For those of you that don't know John, he is an expert ... |
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| Topic: Harvesting honey from a Warre hive |
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| Norm Replies: 117 Views: 380130 |
Forum: Foraging on the Far Side Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 5:30 pm Subject: Harvesting honey from a Warre hive |
Whoops I thought I had stumbled into the 'Powerswitch' forum by mistake! Energy crisis, Peak Oil, Economic downturn.! 
Well when mankind has become extinct, I'll bet you ... |
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| Topic: Harvesting honey from a Warre hive |
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| Norm Replies: 117 Views: 380130 |
Forum: Foraging on the Far Side Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 10:45 am Subject: Harvesting honey from a Warre hive |
| I thought it was yeast that caused fermentation, and isn't yeast an enzyme not a bacteria? | |
| Topic: Harvesting honey from a Warre hive |
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| Norm Replies: 117 Views: 380130 |
Forum: Foraging on the Far Side Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2009 6:56 pm Subject: Harvesting honey from a Warre hive |
Well I am no scientist and don't pretend to totally understand such things but I do see things in a simplistic way! 
For instance in a standard hive, a young bee may be cleaning out a brood cel ... |
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| Topic: Harvesting honey from a Warre hive |
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| Norm Replies: 117 Views: 380130 |
Forum: Foraging on the Far Side Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2009 2:54 pm Subject: Harvesting honey from a Warre hive |
| Hello Peter,
I wasn't suggesting your were anything of the kind. More like, you just like to argue for arguments sake. Hence the merry-go-round of repeated posts saying more or less the same thing ... |
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| Topic: Harvesting honey from a Warre hive |
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| Norm Replies: 117 Views: 380130 |
Forum: Foraging on the Far Side Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2009 4:53 pm Subject: Harvesting honey from a Warre hive |
| Peter, the reason I transcribed David's answer from the Yahoo group is because no one here seems to have the experience or knowledge to provide a good authoratative answer. You say you read his reply ... | |
| Topic: Harvesting honey from a Warre hive |
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| Norm Replies: 117 Views: 380130 |
Forum: Foraging on the Far Side Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2009 3:17 pm Subject: Harvesting honey from a Warre hive |
| I posed the question from the first post in this thread to the Yahoo warre group.
This is the reply that David Heaf gave:- "As I understand the Warre system, honey is harvested in the Aut ... |
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| Topic: Finding Feral Bee Colonies - Beelining |
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| Norm Replies: 17 Views: 56764 |
Forum: Wild and feral honeybees and other bee species Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 3:45 pm Subject: Finding Feral Bee Colonies - Beelining |
| I find this subject fascinating and have had a go myself in the past. This is the timing formula I mentioned in the other thread:-
The distance to the nest can be calculated using a formula develop ... |
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| Topic: Finding Feral Bee Colonies - Beelining |
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| Norm Replies: 17 Views: 56764 |
Forum: Wild and feral honeybees and other bee species Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 12:53 pm Subject: Finding Feral Bee Colonies - Beelining |
| There are several ways to Beeline, here is a link to some of them
http://www.savethehives.com/fbp/Beelining.html |
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| Topic: Norm's TBH Sugar Powder Applicator |
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| Norm Replies: 9 Views: 19817 |
Forum: Bee health: the treatment (or not) of bee pests and diseases Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 8:46 am Subject: Norm's TBH Sugar Powder Applicator |
| Using powdered or icing sugar is a well documented and accepted form of varroa control because of it's non contamination of either honey or wax. Sugar is a natural component of honey. | |
| Topic: Norm's TBH Sugar Powder Applicator |
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| Norm Replies: 9 Views: 19817 |
Forum: Bee health: the treatment (or not) of bee pests and diseases Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2008 5:11 pm Subject: Norm's TBH Sugar Powder Applicator |
| Yes you are right beesilly, you could just open up the top bars and brush sugar powder down into the gap. This just makes it much quicker and easier and less of a problem if its windy. The gap of the ... | |
| Topic: My IPM |
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| Norm Replies: 21 Views: 64550 |
Forum: Bee health: the treatment (or not) of bee pests and diseases Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 9:04 am Subject: My IPM |
| IMO too dependant on chemicals! Natural chemicals maybe but I feel we should be trying to wean our bees off these and to select for mite tolerant bees. Even though you will probably keep your colonies ... | |
| Topic: My IPM |
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| Norm Replies: 21 Views: 64550 |
Forum: Bee health: the treatment (or not) of bee pests and diseases Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 4:44 pm Subject: drone culling |
| Interesting - I am willing to be persuaded. Do you have any citations I could read up?
Phil, start by looking up fig 49 in:- http://beebase.csl.gov.uk/pdfs/managing_varroa.pdf The colourin ... |
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| Topic: My IPM |
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| Norm Replies: 21 Views: 64550 |
Forum: Bee health: the treatment (or not) of bee pests and diseases Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 3:18 pm Subject: My IPM |
| ...The only item I differ on is drone culling, which I only carry out if I suspect that other methods may not be enough for a particular colony. As a general principle, I like to let the bees decide h ... | |
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Conserving wild beesResearch suggests that bumble bee boxes have a very low success rate in actually attracting bees into them. We find that if you create an environment where first of all you can attract mice inside, such as a pile of stones, a drystone wall, paving slabs with intentionally made cavities underneath, this will increase the success rate. Most bumble bee species need a dry space about the size a football, with a narrow entrance tunnel approximately 2cm in diameter and 20 cm long. Most species nest underground along the base of a linear feature such as a hedge or wall. Sites need to be sheltered and out of direct sunlight. There is a spectacular display of wild bee hotels here More about bumblebees and solitary bees here Information about the Tree Bumblebee (Bombus hypnorum)
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