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DBKA Newletter
DBKA eNews AGM Feb 2019 copy
How Good is Your Honey?
You already know your honey is good. Your mum likes it. That supportive neighbour has never handed back a jar. And the Vicar was delighted with your contribution to the harvest festival but he sounded just as delighted with that
Bee larvae fed beebread have no chance of becoming queen
A short article that explains the title, with video with strangely inappropriate music.
A short article on beekeeping that spans the world and the whole of human history.
Honey, I love you: our 40,000-year relationship with the humble bee.
1st Inspection 4/4/15
I carried out my first inspection today of my remaining 3 hives. They all had brood, 2 hives were across 5 frames and 1 was across 7. Some way behind last year, but last year was very mild. Still plenty
Drone laying queen. 15/2/15
Yesterday I noticed that one of my hives was evicting undersized drones. I realised this probably meant the the queen was infertile and could no longer lay fertilized worker eggs. At this time of the year queens can’t get mated
Checking varroa inspection boards
After leaving the varroa inspections boards in for 96 hours I checked to see the results of the treatment. The first hive had a huge mite drop, this is the hive I treated using a homemade thymol treatment. I think
Oxalic treatment 4/1/15
The first visit to my hives in 2015 was in order to apply oxalic acid to the bees to kill the varroa mites that are not in the brood. Today I had a number of other members of SBKA with
Fondant Feeding 6/12/14
I have been concerned about the store levels in my hives recently, one in particular. So I decided today to add a slab of fondant on top of the frames of the lightest hive. The others should be ok until