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@gwenyngruffydd1.bsky.social That’s just like my extractor … except 800 times bigger 😉.

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@sheffieldhoney.bsky.social “across the UK” unfortunately excludes any area within 3 miles of my apiaries 😞. The phacelia is packing up early (but never really got started because of the lack of rain) and who knows what the annual ‘heather lottery’ will be like.

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@colinpurrington.bsky.social Thanks Colin 😄

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@theapiarist.org And it’s a problem for any passing ‘civilians’ (i.e. non-beekeepers) who get caught in the crossfire. Gentle bees make everything so much easier and pleasant 😄

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@phillipcairns.bsky.social ‘Turns out to be’ … looks like it started that way 😉. The cages with the bars across the end are good. My blue pen, not so much 😄.

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@bbka.org.uk Never gonna happen, nope, not a Scooby Doo 😉. Ask any 3 beekeepers a question and you’ll get 5 answers. One will be completely wrong and one will be “brood and a half”. Rarely, very, very rarely, the wrong answer will not be brood and a half 😉.

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@bbka.org.uk I have a feeling that your definition of reliable is a bit different from mine 😉.

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@quarrybees.bsky.social There’s a (long) YouTube video of a swarm arriving in a trap using an infra red camera www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLZE… … great to see what happens inside the box.

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@pguythompson.bsky.social My first swarm of the year installed itself in a bait hive at 3 pm this afternoon. A magical sight … as always 😄. £250+ is robbery (and the swarm is a lot bigger than a five frame nuc 😉).

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@bbka.org.uk A bit of a cheeky title as they didn’t show a ‘stable relationship’, or any adaption, but they did show high mite and virus levels at the end of June. Needs more work. Would I want these in an apiary near me? Hmmm 😉

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@theapiarist.org The note at the end of the post makes clear that the ‘label’ depicted is in breach of the regulations, and not only because of the OSR and heather contradiction. The weight units are wrong, there’s no country listed, and inclusion of ‘raw’ is debatable. Apart from that, it’s a great label 😉.

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@pguythompson.bsky.social You win some, you lose some 😉.

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@pguythompson.bsky.social Nice 😄 I’m assuming that’s a bait hive?

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@gwenyngruffydd1.bsky.social Same for some of mine in Fife. Fresh nectar in the boxes, lots of brood, OSR just starting to show a few flowers. Not enough frames built 😞.

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@effapheasant.bsky.social I’m hoping to be discussing shook swarms as soon as the weather warms up. I prefer them to a Bailey comb change … tough love, but the bees really do well afterwards. Delighted you enjoy the writing 😄.

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@gwenthebeekeeper.bsky.social Reasonably certain that’s a hummingbird hawk moth (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humming…)

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@beecraftmag.bsky.social Or build one to house your bees, so you don’t need to inspect colonies in the rain. I can’t promise “organised”, but they make sense where the weather is changeable and/or you’re not always able to inspect when the weather is good.
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@bbka.org.uk And mite mortality would probably need to be higher (often in the 25-50% range) unless multiple repeated treatments are to be made. Kableau has looked at drone fertility — unaffected by 2 h @ 41 °C (Apidologie 2020, 51, 307–315) though this is lower than many hyperthermia treatments.

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@theapiarist.org 2/2 Single OA vaporisation is only effective if the colony is broodless, and the published data on repeat treatment (theapiarist.org/repeated-oxa…) — though there are faults in the study — is underwhelming. I’ve got a post on slow-release OA appearing very soon.

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@theapiarist.org Not really … it’s a numbers game. Thousands of beekeepers and thousands of colonies. Those that followed the ‘rules’ lost fewer colonies. Sure, some who didn’t lost none, and some who did lost lots, but they’re obscured in the overall numbers. 1/2

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@bbka.org.uk Or, for this colourblind beekeeper who is too mean to buy lots of pens I can’t see, white and blue alternating, coupled with good records 😜.

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@richwild.bsky.social Thanks Rich … optic flow deserves a post or two of its own. It’s a great topic, relevant to bee flight in winds (as here), distance determination and correct interpretation of the waggle dance.

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@nybeekeeper.bsky.social 2/2 OA advantages in my view are high efficacy when broodless and absence of residues in the wax. Former is not always convenient or achievable, latter is very welcome (and cannot be said for amitraz).

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@nybeekeeper.bsky.social The de Mattos 2017 grooming paper (the only one cited) was an in vitro study; 72 hours exposure then test. Grooming was delayed/reduced by amitraz. But amitraz is usually not present, so the bees should surely groom OK for the rest of the year? … 1/2

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@nybeekeeper.bsky.social Though that’s not what the cited paper claims … in fact, they don’t discriminate between the application method for OA. OAV is very effective on broodless colonies (they don’t clarify whether the studies analysed used it properly), but - as with all other treatments - lags behind amitraz.

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New post : Odds and ends - part 1 of N

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Weather and the prediction of foraging activity. Swarms and the production of afterswarms (casts). Something for everyone …

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theapiarist.org/odd-and-e…

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I’ve been investigating command line clients for BlueSky. Some that I’ve previously used (like perl’s App::bsky) appear to have been left behind by the rapidly evolving AT protocol. However, this shell script works (on Raspberry Pi/Debian) and can post text and/or images … nice.

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New post - November interlude

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Late season tasks in the apiary; mites, brood, contrary bees building brace comb and the characteristic signs of a hive in terminal decline.

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AMD Radeon PRO W7700 running on Raspberry Pi \"Raspberry : jeffgeerling.com

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The first large flocks of fieldfares scatter downwind before me on my walk. They always seem nervous when they first migrate here, as though humans are rarely seen in their breeding grounds in Northern Scandinavia. However, for all I know, they might be from Oslo, a city larger than Edinburgh.

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In November, nothing says “failed queen” more clearly than drones in the hive and a load of unconsumed stores.

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Ardnamurchan never disappoints …

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Loch Sunart, 10th November ‘24

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M4 Mac mini's efficiency is incredible \"M4 : jeffgeerling.com

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Popular Rockchip SBC distro in limbo after maintainer burns out: jeffgeerling.com

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Fake news: musings.theapiarist.org

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New post - Climate change and beekeeping

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How will climate change impact bees and beekeeping? Flooded apiaries and poor queen mating might be the least of our problems. Don’t think it won’t happen … it already is.

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Where’s your passport?

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Why Raspberry Pi for an SBC guy: jeffgeerling.com

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Home Assistant and CarPlay with the Pi Touch Display 2: jeffgeerling.com

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Hello? Is there anyone out there? This is @theapiarist on micro.blog …

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LTT's Precision Screwdriver - better than iFixit? jeffgeerling.com

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Finding a server's BMC / IPMI IP address with ipmitool: jeffgeerling.com

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JetKVM: tiny IP KVM that's not an Apple Watch: jeffgeerling.com

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Qualcomm cancels Snapdragon Dev Kit, refunds all orders: jeffgeerling.com

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Realizing Meshtastic's Promise with the T-Deck: jeffgeerling.com

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