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    A small square flower pot does a good job as well and avoids the potential domestic disputes!

    You'd better get them done this morning cos minnowburn will be a wash out by this afternoon !
    Just did 6 which emerged yesterday. 19 more due to emerge tomorrow.
    They are ok for a couple of days in the roller if you put food in.
    Already on to Plan B for this evening as there will be no bees opened.
    Indoor presentation on swarming and swarm control.

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    Won't bee there tonite, got to get frames waxed , mini nucs candied and think about feeding light hives. Out of interest what recipie do you use for feeding virgins in cages

    I use honey/sugar

    I use the cup out of a 4 pint feeder for scouping bees
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    hi
    powdered sugar 10kg:4kg floral honey (dandelion) dough, same as for the apideas - a wee wedge of it keeps herself and 4-5 adjundant bees very happy (and does not dry out as fast as candy i find).
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    Quote Originally Posted by Calum View Post
    hi
    powdered sugar 10kg:4kg floral honey (dandelion) dough,
    This is for virgins in an incubator, I can get about 4 days max with a 4 sugar:1 honey with no attending bees

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    Quote Originally Posted by busybeephilip View Post
    This is for virgins in an incubator, I can get about 4 days max with a 4 sugar:1 honey with no attending bees
    Fair enough, I try to get them into artificial swarms or apedias asap after they emerge.
    I'll keep them for a couple of days caged for people who want to buy them, but if they are not sharpish picking them up, I'll assume they are not that interested and stuff them in an apdiea. They can come back 2 weeks later and pay 10€ more for them then. . Havent tried out how long they would actually survive like that.

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    I mix runny honey with fondant to make a thickish paste.
    2 days is long enough in the roller if there are no attendants.
    I usually have them in Apideas within 24 hours of emergence.

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    oh wanted to post this here too, the Austrian beekeepess in Voralberg price suggestions for the area:
    Carnica purebred queen 35,00 €
    Queen 18,00 €
    1 kg Bees before midsummer 30€
    1kg Bees after Sommersonnenwende 25,00 €
    1 frame with bees 12,00 – 15,00 €
    5 frame nuc well filled 100,00 €
    queen cells 5,00 - 6,50 € (only an austrian would buy queens cells!)
    queen pre evaluation 25,00 €
    queen post evaluation 35,00 € (no clues what the evaluation criteria should be tho)
    Honey 1 kg 15,00 €
    Honey 0.5 kg 8,00 €
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    thanks for the message Jon - your messaging service is full - so I cannot reply!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Calum View Post
    queen cells 5,00 - 6,50 € (only an austrian would buy queens cells!)
    I've known people here offering to sell them … or at least trying to And we're not necessarily talking about grafted/selected stock … what you or I would term 'swarm cells'.

    Thanks but no thanks.

    Put the board into my Cloake board (!) of my cell raiser today intending to graft tomorrow … just checked the weather and they're predicting 43 mph winds. Marvellous. That bit when they suggest just gently 'floating' the cell bar frame down into the box crammed with bees will likely occur in a whirling maelstrom of leaves, branches, litter, small birds and more than a few bees.

    Still, the sacrifices we must make for €6/cell

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    Good luck, they can be really tame in very bad weather, or not....

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