Author Archives: Ewa&Mikael

Nu börjar lugnet lägga sig i bigården och det mesta stöket är över. Vi ställer alla tomma ramar i lådor och sätter en burk med ättika för att hålla motten borta, när kylan kommer löser sig det av sig självt. Alla matramar ligger i insektstäta plastlådor med lite ättika och kommer användas i vår somContinue reading “Bigården i Oktober”

English summary: Formic acid is sometimes needed if the mite population is way too big but unfortunately formic acid is alos known for killing queens. We tried a method where we lifted off the honey super and placed the queen there and put it back after one day when the concentration of formic acid haveContinue reading “28 sept. Lyckat Misslyckat test”

English summary: Some claim that it is impossible to have queens mated in the autumn partly due to no drones and partly due to low temperatures. Research have shown that a queen can fly down to 12-14 degree C if needed and if there is a flow drones will be kept quite late in theContinue reading “27 sept. Sent parade drottningar- en omöjlighet?”

Short english summary: Honey below 20% water can still start to ferment if the honey have chrystallized. The water will then end up in the fructose portion and then the honey starts to ferment. It will not make the honey go bad and if the honey is stirred and slightly warmed the chrystals are brokenContinue reading “Jäst honung får man kasta?”

Short English summary: Due to the great Heather flow we gave been forced to wait with the winter-in and even this week we were unable to push them down to two boxes and will probably have to let the ones in our forest apiary stay on three boxes.The honey season have been great and weContinue reading “22 sept. Falsk matematik och “misslyckad”invintring”

English summary: The bee year have no start nor end since what we do today will impact the result 6 month later. Since we have noticed the the farmers have planted rapeseed we will bring several hives from our forest apiary to ensure we get a good rape seed flow. Since we have plenty ofContinue reading “15 sept – planering för nästa säsong”

English summary: The winter in is delayed due to the unusual warm wheather and the late Heather flow so we still have to wait 1-2 weeks to bring the tvo brood chambers into one. But since we use 100% honey we are not in any hurry so we can wait a bit longer. We haveContinue reading “12 sept: Säsongsavslutning”

English summary: In two colonies we have seen increasing mite drop and after disecting 100 worker brood we realized that we have a huge infestation and need to perform formic acid treatment. Studies indicate that formic acid is associated with increased Queen mortality and our own experience point towards 30% queen losses connected with formicContinue reading “8 sept: Misslyckat test och cementhonung”

English summary: Counting daily mitefall is a reliable method during the season but in late August it is not enough since the increase may go very quick. A sampling of worker cells will then tell how many mites can be expected in two weeks once they hatch. This year we saw a huge increase inContinue reading “3 sept. Varroabehandling 2.0”

Short english summary: Most beekeepers know that drones are haploid copies of the queen but fewer knows that there is a thing called diploid drones. Bees does not have X and Y chromosomes to determine the sex but instead one gene on the chrmosomes, Loci, that determines the sex. Honey bees have about 20 differentContinue reading “2 sept. Diploida drönare – könsbestäming av bin”