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GENERAL BEEKEEPING - MAIN POSTING FORUM. / Re: Follow the Bloom - 2024
« Last post by BeeMaster2 on May 15, 2024, 11:35:38 pm »The bees are buzzing on the Chinese Tallow.
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GENERAL BEEKEEPING - MAIN POSTING FORUM. / Re: A General Hive Question
« Last post by Ben Framed on May 15, 2024, 09:17:38 pm »👍🏻
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GENERAL BEEKEEPING - MAIN POSTING FORUM. / Re: Canadian beekeeper
« Last post by beehappy1950 on May 15, 2024, 08:23:44 pm »I am within a hundred and fifty miles of him so I am a member of his blog . He makes at least 5 something a month from me. 
. I have changed my way of beekeeping on account of him. I now run all singles. Now I am getting ready to build his escape boards. He is a pretty good beekeeper.
. I have changed my way of beekeeping on account of him. I now run all singles. Now I am getting ready to build his escape boards. He is a pretty good beekeeper.4
GENERAL BEEKEEPING - MAIN POSTING FORUM. / Re: AFB in NZ
« Last post by Jim134 on May 15, 2024, 08:19:07 pm » I know about twenty years ago.. There was a Gamma facilty.. About an hour and fifty minutes from my house.. It was very competitive about the first five years.. For about the last fifteen years. This inflation has killed it.. The price of everything going up.. And bee equipment did not go off nearly as much.. Cheaper, just to buy new and start over again... When all the costs are considered.
BEE HAPPY Jim134.
BEE HAPPY Jim134.
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GENERAL BEEKEEPING - MAIN POSTING FORUM. / Re: A General Hive Question
« Last post by Terri Yaki on May 15, 2024, 07:10:29 pm »Good discussion in that thread, Ben. Thanks. For now, I'll concentrate on getting the hive strong, try to catch a swarm and if and when I have a lot of brood, I'll consider it.
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GENERAL BEEKEEPING - MAIN POSTING FORUM. / Re: A General Hive Question
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GENERAL BEEKEEPING - MAIN POSTING FORUM. / Re: AFB in NZ
« Last post by Terri Yaki on May 15, 2024, 06:41:24 pm »That is sad and unfortunate.
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GENERAL BEEKEEPING - MAIN POSTING FORUM. / AFB in NZ
« Last post by max2 on May 15, 2024, 06:35:12 pm »This would break my heart:
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/516930/beekeeper-steven-brown-furious-over-destruction-of-2m-honey-crop
In Australia we do have access to heat treatment ( I send all my deadouts to a bloke who has an approved set-up - just in case)
We also have a Gamma facilty but it is expensive.
It appears NZ does not have such a facility.
This looks like gear in good condition.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/516930/beekeeper-steven-brown-furious-over-destruction-of-2m-honey-crop
In Australia we do have access to heat treatment ( I send all my deadouts to a bloke who has an approved set-up - just in case)
We also have a Gamma facilty but it is expensive.
It appears NZ does not have such a facility.
This looks like gear in good condition.
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GENERAL BEEKEEPING - MAIN POSTING FORUM. / Re: A General Hive Question
« Last post by beesnweeds on May 15, 2024, 06:11:23 pm »Can I just split this colony?At the end of the day there's only 2 ways to make a split. You can purchase a queen or allow the split to make its own which in your case will be an emergency queen. When I make splits, they either have charged swarm cells, or I have mated queens ready. Emergency queens can sometimes be poor quality. If you make the split now it will be around 30 days until the new queen is laying and another 12 days for bees the best age to produce wax. You might be able to pull it off but once August comes around wax production gets harder. Honestly you should focus on getting your new hive strong for winter and learn about mite/honeybee life cycle and biology. Your bees could produce honey this year and make splits next year.
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FARMING & COUNTRY LIFE / Re: Not all pollen is the same
« Last post by Occam on May 15, 2024, 02:34:24 pm »Occam - is this related?
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/nchs_press_releases/2022/20220831.htm
I couldn't say, I was referencing allergies and illness not death itself. My "death by a million cuts" comment was a figure of speech. That said illness and disease, especially chronic, can and do lead to death. It does behoove us to be circumspect about what we're doing in our personal lives, reducing our use of plastics, growing our own food sources, living and working with nature as much as possible instead of trying to control or subdue it. We're pretty short lived and weak beings if we're honest with ourselves, nature will always outlast us and wear us out with its relentless force. We would do well to do all we can to come alongside nature, learn from nature, mimic nature, and we would find ourselves healthier, more satisfied, and more fulfilled in life. Building our houses and offices to be sealed off, growing our food in labs, separating ourselves in as many ways as we can, and then expecting that our bodies wouldn't react to an outside force like pollen is completely asinine and insane of us to think. Climate change isnt the issue, it's us. Even if climate change (and climate always changes, always has always will with or without us) is increasing the pollen around us, if we spent the majority of our time outdoors, or in an environment with free airflow from outside to inside like 100 years ago this wouldn't be a conversation because our bodies would be adapting to the slight (relatively speaking) change in pollen versus what we now encounter when we leave our sealed off, filtered, and sanitized environments