In the stuff that I bought with the bee hives from the widow I found a little glass bottle labled "Ha Ha - Lachgaspillen" (Ha Ha Laughing gass pills). I read the instructions and it looks to be a kind of sedative that is added to a smoker for when you are requeening, joining coloney, or moving the hives. Has anyone ever hear of or used anything similar to this?
No, never heard of it before.
Dont know about the pills--but if you add ammonium nitrate to your smoker it will produce
nitrous oxide -beekeepers have used this for a variety of purposes-introduce virgin queens
make splits or move a hot hive and so on--it puts the bees to sleep and when they wake up
they have lost there sense of orientation and have to reorient themselves -lots of queen
producers use a similar technique with the bottled gas to sedate bees--my guse is your pills are
of this nature--RDY-B
Quote from: rdy-b on August 26, 2013, 02:09:46 AM
Dont know about the pills--but if you add ammonium nitrate to your smoker it will produce
nitrous oxide -beekeepers have used this for a variety of purposes-introduce virgin queens
make splits or move a hot hive and so on--it puts the bees to sleep and when they wake up
they have lost there sense of orientation and have to reorient themselves -lots of queen
producers use a similar technique with the bottled gas to sedate bees--my guse is your pills are
of this nature--RDY-B
Thanks, learn something new every day.