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English summary: There is a lot of adultered honey in the stores but the magnitude is actually way bigger than anyone would have imagined. With the introduction of a new DNA test, it was discovered that every single imported jar of honey was adultered in a test of 40 different products. Only the 4 ofContinue reading “Honungsfusket – designad sirap”

English summary: We finished the Varroa battle yesterday with one final lactic acid treatment on one hive that persist with high mite count. This colony will probably not make it due to being quite weak. Bad news is that a few of our best colonies lost the resistance after they requeened which is very frustrating.Continue reading “22 okt-summering av kvalsterläget”

English summary: We had an “out of the box” presentation in a company, where none were beek’s. We focused on the life of a bee colony and all cool skills they have, such as the ability to detect magnetic fields, see UV light as well as polarised light. We finshed off by testing different honey’sContinue reading “Föredrag om bin”

English summary: Food consumption over the winter is an important topic since high consumption leads to huge amount of water to process which increases the risk of high humidity as well as dysentery in the hive. But total consumption is not a good measurement since strong colonies consume more food than really small ones. AContinue reading “12 okt – Hur mycket mat förbrukar bina per dag?”

English summary: It’s well known that top insulation is key for a great overwinter, but does the bees need bottom ventilation or not? This year’s wintertest will try to answer that since we will put moisture absorber in one mite board, one hive with empty board and one hive with no board and see ifContinue reading “4 oktober – dags för årets vintertest”

English summary: We have now installed the temp and humidity sensors in our hives, and the data show a very consistent internal environmental regardless of external temp and humidity. With insulated hives we expect the curves to stay very similar the whole winter. Nu har vi installerat temp- och fukt-givare i våra kupor och viContinue reading “29 september”

English summary: The last thing we do prior the winter is to add temp sensors on a few colonies, tape around the plastic lid to prevent airgap and add 100 mm of insulation. När de sista skälvande dagarna med sommartemperaturer infaller är det nu dags att sätta punkt för biåret; alla samhällen har sin matContinue reading “24 september – på med isolering”

English summary: Its quite common to experience i kind of “mitebomb” in September – I sudden huge increase of mites. This is quite normal since mites double theri number in 20 days, which means if you have 100 mites in april then that can easily increase to 3000 by end of the season. The bestContinue reading “Kvalsterbomb i september”

English summary: Since food is very scarce in the autumn, robbery is a clear risk and thus we should avoid to open the hive “just for fun”. During summertime we usually want nice wheather when we open the hive, but that is not preferable in the autumn. When good wheather happens in the autumn beesContinue reading “Hösten – stor risk för röveri”

English summary: The year is coming to an end and we can summarize it. We have extracted around 250 kg honey from our 8 production colonies and to that we can add the 250 kg that the bees will keep as winter store. We have thus invested half the crop into the bees health. AContinue reading “3 september – bokslut”