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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.”

Englis summary: One colony seems to plan to make a silent change and have thus made some queen cells. We took the opportunity to cut out two of them and nailed them in an empty comb which we will place in a small nuc.Svärmen vi tog in hade uppenbarligen en gammal drottning då de redanContinue reading “25 maj – skära ut ett par viseceller”

English summary: We moved one colony from our backyard to the forest apiary since they showed a bit of attitude. We have made a transportation cap with ventilation to not get the bees overheated. In the lower image our first born new queen for the year is now mated att fully egg laying. The beeContinue reading “24 maj-nyparad drottning samt flytt av samhälle”

English summary: In below images we can see how Varroa mites and brood develope. Fig 1 and 2 shows the brood development and fig 3 describes the evolution of mites in the brood cell. The high fecundity in drone brood is the reason why drone cutout is so efficient and will delay the problem ofContinue reading “23 maj – kvalster och ynglets utveckling”

English summary: Time for extraction of rape seed honey but the unusual dry spring crashed the hope of a good harvest. We hope the rain will enable some additional honey next week. Dax för årets första rapsslungning och det fanns gott hopp om en bra skörd då rapsen stod hög och gul. Tyvärr verkar detContinue reading “22 maj- slungning av raps”

English summary: First result of this year’s drone cuotout and colony 8 had about 19% infested cells when the brood were newly capped and seem to have cleaned out about 40% of the infested cells 5 days later.Nu har vi börjat skära ut drönare och analysera angreppsgrad och eventuell DBVSH (Drone Brood Varroa Sensitive Hygien)Continue reading “21 maj- första resultat ur drönarramen”

English summary: The bee colonies developes quickly in may and it is important to add supers and move full combs from the brood chambers (honey or brood) to the supers and replace them with fresh drawn frames in order to prevent swarming. Our strongest colony got a third brood chamber since all combs were fullContinue reading “20 maj: Snabb vårutveckling”

English summary: We were invited to Gävle beekeepers on May 11 to carry out a presentation why it is a good idea to let the bees use honey all year, also during the winter. The presentation was well recieved where we also took the opportunity to debunk several myths and fairy tales around beekeeping (HeatherContinue reading “Föredrag i Gävle”