Shook swarm is a very invasive treatment! Which will stress the bees and burn out the queen! Proud of Roger’s restraint as I ve heard him say he not keen on shook swarms! All the Bibba webinars have been excellent!
Sorry I missed the live show, Christmas preparations have been a bit chaotic. Very informative way to spend some time away from the kitchen! Thank you BIBBA
Thymol or a Thymol based product like hivealive ( hivealive is a registered product that can be entered onto your VMR) can be added to factory made syrup. Granted it won't help with fermentation but still aids the battle with nosema. So can be added to both homemade syrup and shop brought. Shook swarm is a great tool to put bees on new clean comb (for a large colony), it is as invasive as collecting a swarm, both get shook around. Has benefits with varroa control as mentioned in the webinar. If however nosema is the issue a small colony you would have to do a bailey comb change. Varroa, doing nothing is not a option.
In a swarm the bees have split and left of their own choice at a peak time leaving bees brood and queen cells,with a shook swarm the bee keeper makes the decision to suite themselves ,dumping all stores pollen and killing all brood and larva and comb ! Very invasive and destructive! How does housing a swarm have anything to do with shaking bee of frames?
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Shook swarm is a very invasive treatment! Which will stress the bees and burn out the queen! Proud of Roger’s restraint as I ve heard him say he not keen on shook swarms! All the Bibba webinars have been excellent!
Sorry I missed the live show, Christmas preparations have been a bit chaotic. Very informative way to spend some time away from the kitchen! Thank you BIBBA
Thymol or a Thymol based product like hivealive ( hivealive is a registered product that can be entered onto your VMR) can be added to factory made syrup. Granted it won't help with fermentation but still aids the battle with nosema. So can be added to both homemade syrup and shop brought.
Shook swarm is a great tool to put bees on new clean comb (for a large colony), it is as invasive as collecting a swarm, both get shook around. Has benefits with varroa control as mentioned in the webinar.
If however nosema is the issue a small colony you would have to do a bailey comb change.
Varroa, doing nothing is not a option.
In a swarm the bees have split and left of their own choice at a peak time leaving bees brood and queen cells,with a shook swarm the bee keeper makes the decision to suite themselves ,dumping all stores pollen and killing all brood and larva and comb ! Very invasive and destructive! How does housing a swarm have anything to do with shaking bee of frames?
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