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English summary: Its autumn and the time when many beekkeepers treat their colonies with organic acids, I.E formic acid and oxalic acid. Oxalic acid should only be used on brood less colonies but many beekeepers use it also when the bees keep brood. In this study (1) they tested the impact of brood mortality whenContinue reading “12 sep. Oxalsyra ger hög dödlighet av yngel”

Englis summary: Time to sum the season and plan next season. All in all it was a good season except for the honey production which, due to unfavory wheather situation, was a total bust. We will give everything back to the bees this year and use up our buffer stock of honey. We produced 10Continue reading “9 sept. Myrsyra, vinterfodra och summering av året”

English summary: We have given the small colonies complementary sugar where we use feeding boxes with a nice feature – a plastic shield that separates the bees from the syrup and hence avoid that too many bees drown. It also makes it quite easy to add more syrup, in case more syrup must be added,Continue reading “3 september – fortfarande varmt”

English summary: The first week of September will see some decent temperatures and the bees will have a last chance to collect a bit of nectar and pollen. We prepare the winter in and we have supplemented the smaller colonies with some sugar since we unfortunately do not have enough honey. The bigger colonies areContinue reading “30 aug – slutspurt på ljung och invintring”

English summary: We are now getting closer to end of the season and we must determine which colonies to treat against Varroa mites, and if a treatment is needed then which to use. We follow an IPT strategy where we try to avoid chemicals and, if needed, firstly use the most harmless chemical, which isContinue reading “26 augusti – behandling av kvalster”

English summary: This season have been a struggle regarding the honey harvest and we have pretty much missed all the big flow due to unfavory wheather conditions. Since we have increased the number of colonies drastically the result is that all honey will go back to the bees but, even so, we still have toContinue reading “24 aug – säsongen börjar närma sig slutet”

English summary: The mite situation is pretty good wher only 3 hives of 14 show a mite population that need actions. Orange color is still under the threshold but must be monitored and probably need a lactic acid treatment to stop the increase before it gets critical. The red one is above threshold and willContinue reading “Aug 13-Kvalsterläget ser bra ut”

English summary: Suddenly we saw many queen cells which pointed towards a swarm despite the late season. However, we search for a long time but couldnt find her so we beleive she must have have died during the move the week before. So, we removed some of the queen cells and hopefully we made theContinue reading “12 augusti- Viseceller i augusti vill man inte se”

English summary: Plenty of pollen that appears to origin from Heather.Vi hoppas att ljungen kommer igång och i vart fall verkar de dra in ljungpollen med beige/grå färg

English summary: Yet another mite infested cell that the bees have opened.Vi fotar en ram dagligen för att se ifall bina öppnar upp celler med kvalster. Här är ännu en cell som bina öppnat och minsann satt det inte ett kvalster alldeles under locket.Vi kollade ett annat samhälle där vi också har noterat DBVSH ochContinue reading “31 Juli – resistenta bin del 2”