Swarm Survival

[Finski]

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Dear Finski -
Whay the slander? Maybe my bees read all about you and are crossing the atlantic now in search of a perfect beekeeper in Finland.
Talk about rude.

HOH HOIJAA

[buzzbee]

Finski was not being slanderous. Do not let the  language barrier lead you the wrong way.Finski is much better at English than what most here are with his native language in Finland. I see some humour in his writing.Go with the flow and listen to what he is trying to explain.Every one may not use his methods,but Finski comes from closer to the Arctic circle than most of us. He has a very short honey season and has learned many good methods of coping with the short season.
He has many years keeping bees in these conditions and has learned the best economy of things for his situation.

[iddee]

Thank you, Buzzbee. I disagree with some of Finski's thoughts, but he is a highly intelligent beek that is willing to share his experiences. You just have to keep in mind his struggles with English and his weather means beekeeping will be a bit different than tropical beekeeping.

[kedgel]

My first attempt at hiving my own swarm bombed too.  I hived a swarm from one of my hives and put an excluder under the brood box to keep in the queen.  I put them right next door to where they swarmed from.  Problem was, she joined Weight Watchers prior to swarming and was able to get out!  :'(  The other problem I suspect that they wanted their space.  They looked out and said, "dang! I coulda swore we just left this place!"  Next time I'll try caging the queen and putting the new hive on the other side of the beeyard.  After they get established, I'll gradually move them to where the other hives are.

Kelly

[Finski]

You just have to keep in mind his struggles with English and his weather

I am not. I am  struggling against stupid beekeepers who do not want to learn nothing but fancy humbug.

As far as I know, I did not insulted anyboby in thus thread. I just told what I know.

We are adult people aren't we?  I cannot cry for mom's help because mom is dead and if she would be alive her age would be 90 years.

[riverrat]

I'm with buzzbee and iddee, however, I would like to add reading most of finski's post I wouldn't have known he was from finland had I not seen it in his profile. His grammar of the English language is good. I know I butcher my English  grammar to the point spell check cant fix it at times :-D. We all got to remember we can learn from what works in other parts of the world and then look at our operation and see if we can apply some of it to our ways. and he in turn learns from our posts which is great. One of the things I see on this forum that you don't on some others is a very good set of moderators and super group of people that can agree to disagree with out it blowing up and I have confidence it will stay that way :)