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FARMING & COUNTRY LIFE / Re: Tornado hit yesterday
« Last post by iddee on May 11, 2024, 05:13:38 pm »Feeling for you, Jim.
The fact is a claim was made trump don't flip flop and that fact was addressed with my comment.
Kamala would be a better president then trump though. A tin can would be a better president then trump.
I'm confused,Don't be, like I said its personal experience. Ive done a lot of sugar rolls with mixed results and observed that some bees do die after the test. Most people just dont hang around their hives for hours to see workers dragging out the dead bees. I know it's considered non lethal which is good to get beekeepers to test. I used alcohol/soap on the same bees after a sugar test and the mite counts doubled a few times. Not good. Sampling 300 bees to save all the rest over the winter is well worth it. Like Mr. Spock said, "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few." May your bees live long and prosper.
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.I'm confused, in Randy Oliver's experiment he says the bees survived the sugar roll when he returned them to the hive. Also, my bees don't look anywhere near that beat up coming out of the jar. Most of them just fan a bit, and their sisters come and clean them off.
https://scientificbeekeeping.com/?s=refining+mite+wash