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Climate, weather, flow, bee activity in South Germany
Ben Framed:
Sibylle, I am glad to here everything is going well for you and your husband! I recall that you were hoping to make the move to Sweden. If anywhere in the world I were to choose to live beside my home, Sweden would be one of my choices also. It is good that you have again bees and they are at winter strength. I have not heard of honeydew. Hopefully you can work around this problem. The trap comb sounds like a very good idea!
You are blessed, You left the rest of the world just at the right time. The world seems to have went crazy with the virus and the terror of it. I hear Sweden keep a level mind and is doing great! Is this true?
Congratulations on you new life, your new farm and your new job! Sounds so good! Do you have dogs at your new farm?
Stay in touch.
Phillip
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The15thMember:
--- Quote from: SiWolKe on August 20, 2020, 03:28:32 am ---Hello folks!
Thanks to those who texted me privately the last months. Thanks for caring about my well-being.
I?m fine, moving to Sweden right now.
I had given my German bees to a friend in Bavaria. He wanted to mate the new queens in the bee yard of a known tf beekeeper so he invited the bee inspector to examine them to get the permission.
This guy was very awed about their strength and health, which made me very happy, having invested so much time and love in the project.
In Sweden my number of colonies went up to 5, all three colonies I started with surviving winter and giving two splits out of the strongest.
No mite problem so far. They all have winter strength right now and a lot of honey. Since the fall honey, dew and heather honey, is not good on the digestion, I plan to take this and surround the cluster with the spring and summer honey combs this September.
Life in Sweden is very peaceful, no covid hysterics like in Germany and the regulations of distance keeping and hygienic behaviors easy to keep.
We have nice neighbors, the working on the farm buildings is going well and my permaculture garden covered with bee flow plants right now.
Plus we have jobs as shareholders of a company.
So Ihm blessed and grateful to have this great future.
Best to you all!
Sibylle
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HOORAY!! You're back!! :grin: Now we can talk varroa trapping without any technical difficulties. Sweden sounds wonderful; I'm glad to hear everything there is going well for you.
SiWolKe:
Thanks, my dear friends, I don't know if I'm back but I will try.
I shunned all social media for months and feel very happy about it.
Yes, we can talk about trap combs. I will build some over winter for my Swedish colonies in case of emergency. It's an easy non chemical treatment, not much work, not much disturbance, no danger for the beekeeper and no contamination of honey. If you want to discuss this again, fifth member, please do! I long to hear about your own managements.
To Sweden: it's a strange but fascinating country besides living in a wonderful nature.
It seems, that people in the country feel as a big family even including their governments and officials and authorities, no matter how rich or poor or what interests they have. In need, all stay together, well, in our area it is so.
You can cross every property as long as you stay a distance to the homes, swim in every lake, put up your tent anywhere. As long as you leave no waste and keep the dog on the leash because of so much wild animals.
Most people I met loved to talk to me.
The virus was not spreading in Germany much as long as we were in lockdown, shutdown. Now, that restrictions are taken off, numbers rise.
In Sweden it was the other way around. They have regulations like keeping distance and not meeting more than 50 people, but everything is recommended, not ordered. People follow.
They had a lot of old dead people in April. The system is that governments and health office can only give recommendations. The actions are taken by local authorities. And in the Stockholm region the authorities failed to protect the old in the homes. They just forgot to provide the workers with protection materials and the workers are mostly poor immigrants working for low wages and not knowing about their rights. So when they had symptoms, they still went to work. Now they plan the state authorities to watch over the private nursing industry conditions again.
Where we have our little farm we had no cases for weeks. Our friends probably went all through the disease but were not hospitalized, nor tested. This was in April. They had the symptoms and just went into self decided quarantine.
They are well now.
In our area the health home service workers locked themselves in with the old people in isolation while they waited for the masks and protection gear. So not many dead ones there.
Some who were serviced in their homes got it and passed away. But all were over 80.
Phillip, yes we have our airedale terrier girl Perle. She is a good watchdog but gentle. I plan to hunt with her next year with my neighbor, hunting wild hogs but we have to train her. She is eager to hunt.
Maybe she will have puppies some day.
SiWolKe:
Many wild animals.
In Sweden I speak a mixture of English, German and Swedish, depending on who talks to me. Hard to concentrate on the right grammar. :wink:
Swedish is just some words and sentences. I bought a book and CDs and will go to school next year when we leave Germany forever. Courses are free for immigrants.
The bees do not have a problem with me not yet speaking Swedish fluently, though.
The15thMember:
Mr. Van posted that video of Mr. Buchler's presentation that we were discussing, Sibylle. I though you might like to peruse the thread.
https://beemaster.com/forum/index.php?topic=53778.msg486961#msg486961
I have put in one of my varroa trapping setups already and will be putting more in this weekend. I'll put more details on the linked thread, so everyone can get an update on my progress.
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