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English summary: We have melted over 200 “ugly” combs in our sundriven wax-melter and also reused about 100 combs of watery honey. The 100 or so combs with concrete honey is soon to be used up – we give them to the bees one at a time and place them in the middle of theContinue reading “21 Juni-alla fula ramar utsmälta”

English summary: We collected a swarm that had built combs in the hedge where they sat. We put them in frames with rubber band and some cords, and since they were starving we gave them a couple of honey combs.Svärmtelefonen ringde och vi begav oss till Onsala där vi fann en liten svärm. Det somContinue reading “Ny svärm”

English version: Our newest sort honey.Vår nya sorthonung från polkagristrädet:)

English summary: DNA tests of cheap honey in the stores have revealed that most imported honey is fake honey. There are claims that an easy test exists that will tell whether the honey is real or fake by simply put a teaspoon of it in water. Syrup should dissolve directly whereras the honey would not.Continue reading “Fake honung – test av test”

English summary: We let all our new queen mate in our forest apiary since the drone quality there is better and more even and usually produce good queens that gives gentle, productive and resistent bees. Three new hives are ready for their queens to mate.Eftersom vi inte är dominanta i Kungsbacka har vi ingen kollContinue reading “2 juni-parning av avläggare”

English summary: Two ways to prepare quick nuc’s; with ready queen-cells or from newly laid eggs. We use 1 comb with food, one with pollen and one with bees. If needed we shae down more bees from a strrong colony. We use our triple hive to make three nuc’s at one go.Vi brukar inte säljaContinue reading “1 Juni – tre avläggare på 20 m”

English summary: We collected a swarm and introduced them to their new home.Så var det dags att hämta in en svärm vilket satt i ett äppelträd den här gången. Det gick relativt smärtfritt och därefter ska de introduceras till sin nya kupa. När vi gick kursen sa man att man skulle låta bina sitta ochContinue reading “30 maj-fånga in en svärm”

English summary: The common method to stop swarming, I.E put the queen in a new hive and let the original hive make a neew queen, is in my opinion a poor strategy since all one achieve is two weak colonies that barely produce enough honey to survive the winter. This year we introduced our ownContinue reading “29 maj: Nytt sätt att hantera samhällen med svärmceller”

English summary: Many beekeepers claim that old black combs should not be used for honey due to the risk of contamination by the old pupaes. It sounds plausible but, as usual, there are very few studies or other refences to neither confirm or to debunk the claim/myth so we made our own simple test; WeContinue reading “Honung från svarta ramar”

English summary: We have carried out a survey of the existing diagnostic methods to estimate mite populations and studies conclude that mite fall is the most accurate one and also offer an “easy to use” method for the beekeeper. Studies support that it is possible to use the mite fall to estimate the total populationContinue reading “27 maj-Utvärdering av olika mätmetoder gällande kvalsternivåerna samt när man bör sätta in behandling.”