Did a new beekeeping blog post: http://adventuresinbeeland.wordpress.com/2011/02/12/dead-bee-inspecting-shook-swarming-and-bees-in-oman/Read more... )

Have been down the apiary today applying oxalic acid to the bees. We all watched as the experienced beekeepers showed us how to measure the warmed acid and sugar syrup solution and apply it using a syringe. You literally lift up the crown board and trickle it all over the bees. It is used to kill off all the varroa mites living on the bees ( Read more... )