Friday, June 30, 2017
QA: What to do with queen less nuc?
Regardless of the hive system we often come in situation that we have queen less colony and we don't want to keep that colony further, especially if that is a small nuc used for queen rearing. If there is a pasture and no false queens jet in the queen less nuc, then the simplest way is to just add combs to other colonies together with bees. I'm usually sprinkling the bees with the water and then just add the comb into another hive. In AZ hive the best place is in honey section to reduce chance that added bees would attack the queen. Actually that is very unlikely. Just recently I did quit unusual operation. I had several small colonies in 5 frame nucs with new queens already laying eggs for a while (covered brood present) and I tried to help these colonies with brood frames. I added one full frame of brood and one additional frame with more honey reserve. I didn't brushed the bees away in mother colony. I just waited few minutes with combs on comb stand and then I sprinkled them with water and put on site of the nest. Between existing brood frame and new added frames I left one comb, mainly empty and a bit of honey reserve, already present in the hive. In 5 hives I didn't have any problems with the queen and they are doing great. Just in one hive where I already had some kind of queen acceptance problem already earlier, I found emergency queen cells. In general I would say the method is fine but there could be surprises as well. During the season and nectar flow I'm not complicating using paper sheet to join bees together. That safety is recommended for very low nectar flow and in the fall before overwintering. If there is no pasture, bees are much more sensitive for bees from another hive and in the fall we don't want to jeopardize with queen loss.
Saturday, June 17, 2017
How to find Slovene words for beekeeping therms?
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Go to page 187 and you will find Slovene words for listed English words used in the dictionary.
You can use also search for English words here:
or this newer search engine - you can choose English interface:
At fran.si is better to choose advanced search engine to search for English words.
But the results give you list of Slovene words. I suggest you to use rather this site:
It
doesn't have English interface but it will give you list of english
words that you can then get Slovene description. Just in place of word
"drone" as seen below on screen print, write English term that you would
like to get Slovene description. Hint: You can also change world "drone" in provided link and you will get result directly, of course if that term exist in dictionary.
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