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WEB VIDEOS / Re: Paul Harvey; News and Comments 1987

« Last post by Kathyp on Today at 11:23:45 am »

I'm not mad about it but trump flip flopped on background checks and he flip flopped on tic toc and ect.  and lots of times he says two things at the exact same time so everybody can take what they want from it.  The dumb ones only take the part they want to hear and discount the rest being said.

Pretty sure that applies to Biden and Biden lovers too.  Biden has a long history of outright lying, so there's that.  There were more dumb Biden voters but I think many of them wised up over the last almost 4 years.  + Even the most Biden loving sycophants don't want to have Kamala as president. 

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GENERAL BEEKEEPING - MAIN POSTING FORUM. / Re: What did you do in your Apiary/Bee yard today?

« Last post by beesnweeds on Today at 11:22:48 am »

An interesting comment about sugar roll tests. We were told at a recent varroa course that sugar roll tests were fatal to bees but their death is slow and is not obvious. From memory they said that the bees spiracles were blocked by the powdered sugar and it took a few days for the bees to slowly die from suffocation. I have never heard of this before but have no reason to doubt what they are saying as they are experts in this field. I?m wondering if anyone has any information in relation to this area. Most of you on this forum deal with the pest on a daily and would be well informed on such things. I only perform alcohol wash tests as it is quicker and gives more accurate results which is important in the early stages of varroa spread.

From personal experience bees shaken/rolled in a jar of powdered sugar is a slow death.  Detergent is quick, effective, cheap, and a bit messy when Im sampling a lot of hives. I just keep a small bucket a water to rinse off. Alcohol works great too.  Its just a matter of preference.
https://scientificbeekeeping.com/?s=refining+mite+wash

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FARMING & COUNTRY LIFE / Tornado hit yesterday

« Last post by BeeMaster2 on Today at 11:10:46 am »

Yesterday while I was eating breakfast it started getting really dark and the winds suddenly picked up. I knew we would have trees and power lines down so I quickly changed from shorts to long pants and my fire shirt while stuffing my breakfast down. I didn?t even finish when the first call came in so. I was getting in my truck ant the wind was blowing sideways. I got my brush truck and started clearing trees from my area. It was so bad that my chief had to set up an incident command. The radio was going non stop until 11:30 AM and then the calls slowed down. At one point, while i was several miles away, I realized that there were a lot of calls on the dirt road next to my property. Power was out in the whole northern part of the county and there is no cell service so there was no way of call home or even have dispatch call my house. When I got home I was immediately told that we were hit, all of the lived in houses were in tact as well as the barns but all the hives were strewn apart. Several trees were snapped or up rooted lots of fences damaged. One unoccupied house is severely damaged with large branches on the roof. A wood working shop was destroyed.
We still don?t have power, I?m on generator and the internet just came up.
Right after I got home Judy, Oida, my sister in law and I put all of the hives back together as best as I could. Not sure I put all of boxes in the right place. I will have to check to see if any of them lost their queens or not. I will give them a few days to fix the mess before I inspect them.
The second one is after I put them back together.
The third one is a large cedar tree right next to my house, I suspect the winds twisted right over this tree to snap it like that. The house is just a few feet from where the top of the tree is. The fourth one is a tree on the work shop. It is a total loss.
I have to get to work. More photos to come.

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FARMING & COUNTRY LIFE / Re: Laser projects

« Last post by animal on Today at 10:56:40 am »

Just another piece of machinery that every farmer should have.

Considering the advance in technology that has made cnc laser engraving possible on a small scale, your casual statement is a cool as the projects you guys are making.
I still have trouble seeing the tool as "worth it" from the standpoint of a strict cost/benefit analysis with maximizing profit the goal. However, that is irrelevant compared to the idea of getting a super-cool toy, being able to call it a business expense and write it off on taxes (not to mention justifying the purchase to the wife). I did the same thing many years ago with a cad printer in my business years ago. Now you guys have convinced me I "need" a laser engraver for my business.
The man that dies with the most toys wins, after all

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GENERAL BEEKEEPING - MAIN POSTING FORUM. / Re: Bee wreck

« Last post by Ben Framed on Today at 10:45:23 am »

> Usually the boxes are scattered all over the road.
You have a great fire department.

And it seems bee wrecks are not unusual.

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GENERAL BEEKEEPING - MAIN POSTING FORUM. / Re: Bee wreck

« Last post by Terri Yaki on Today at 10:43:58 am »

I'm trying to figure out the engineering behind uprighting the truck with the bees attached. First off, the truck is a little more than just on it's side, it's on the way over and at least some of those hives had to have gotten damaged and pushed into the others in a domino effect. That's a flatbed so I would expect that they'd grab it by the frame or the rub rail and pull it up, which I would expect to end up dropping all the hives off the other side. Either way though, if they saved most of the bees, they did good.

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GENERAL BEEKEEPING - MAIN POSTING FORUM. / Re: Bee wreck

« Last post by BeeMaster2 on Today at 10:33:22 am »

I?m surprised that the fire department didn?t over the whole truck with foam. My st of the time that is what they do.
Looks like the hives are still strapped to the truck. Maybe that is why they will bee able to save them.
Usually the boxes are scattered all over the road.
You have a great fire department.
Jim Altmiller

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GENERAL BEEKEEPING - MAIN POSTING FORUM. / Bee wreck

« Last post by iddee on Today at 08:25:50 am »

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/most-of-15-million-bees-contained-after-bee-laden-truck-crashes/ar-BB1mavwy?ocid=BHEA000&cvid=f982d196e0d14d4c830d14fccaeb9481&ei=111

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GENERAL BEEKEEPING - MAIN POSTING FORUM. / Re: What did you do in your Apiary/Bee yard today?

« Last post by Ben Framed on Today at 06:25:06 am »

I have heard a similar report Les concerning sugar rolls, but I do not have that report handy. Nor do I know if that report is accurate. Your opinion of the alcohol wash is an opinion I share as well.
quoting you: I only perform alcohol wash tests as it is quicker and gives more accurate results which is important in the early stages of varroa spread.

TheHoneyPump also VERY knowledgeable about varroa preferred the Alcohol wash for obvious reasons. He was from a 7th generation bee keeping family whose family business depends upon up to date knowledge in all aspects of bee health. A family which produces not only an astronomical amount of honey each year, but thousands of pounds of wax in his Country, Canada!

For the sake of those who do not like the idea of killing their bees, he humored us with patience and kindness, giving us a formula for the sugar roll. I do not know if he was aware of the implications that sugar rolls also kill bees?

I highly recommend the following, written by him, to all my Australian Beekeeping Friends concerning Varro Destructor.

Phillip


https://beemaster.com/forum/index.php?topic=54623.msg497375#msg497375

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FARMING & COUNTRY LIFE / Re: Laser projects

« Last post by Ben Framed on Today at 05:47:31 am »

Just another piece of machinery that every farmer should have.

Hi Les,
From your shared post and projects in the Today I Made topic, you have certainly proven their worth in your bee farming operations! I really like the engraved honey jar lids you did! Keep up the good work!

Phillip