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Sunday, March 1st, 2009
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Nothing much happening. BEE-L is relocating to a new
server. That has been a bit of work. I've gotten involved again,
helping Aaron deal with the hassles.
Monday, March 2nd, 2009
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Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009
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I've been watching
Have Gun-Will Travel: Season 1 Disc 1. The sound is very poor and
the plots are very simple. Nonetheless, the episodes are pleasant and
entertaining.
Wednesday, March 4th, 2009
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Today is beautiful. I wandered around and
looked at everything. I see the quonset will need fixing again. I
looked at the bees. All hives are alive, although one is small and at the
back. It was a small hive to start and is one of the few in doubles.
Most are in three boxes. With the melting today, the hives are a bit damp
inside, but seem happy. The humidity will kick off brood rearing and I'll
have to put some patties on soon.
Thursday, March 5th, 2009
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Windy and cold. Power was off during the
night. The quonset repair has totally come apart and I am going to have
top do it over differently, assuming it holds up today in the winds.
From
http://www.beesource.com/forums/showthread.php?p=401141#post401141
Yes Jean-Pierre sold the queen rearing business, the whole works, 2
years ago I believe. He did something really interesting on the
varroa resistance side of things. He would pull the honey crop in
mid-July. At that time he would clean the pull-out trays of his
bottom boards and do a natural drop count over 3 days and average it
out to 24 hours. 6 weeks later he did the same thing when they
pulled the golden rod, aster crop. So they checked the colonies for
natural drop again. Typical non selected North American stock will
have varroa population natural drops (nd) double every 15 days. I'll
say 2 weeks here just to make a point. So a colony that would have 4
varroa fall down naturally on July 15 would have 32 varroa drop
naturally on September 1. July 15 is 4 nd. August 1 is 8 nd. August
15 is 16 nd and finally September 1 is 32 nd.
Being a clever fellow Jean-Pierre selected stock that had a slower
rate of nd doubling. For example if 2 colonies had a nd of 4 on july
15 and 1 colony had a nd of of 32 on sept 1 and the other hive had a
nd of 24 on sept 1 , then he selected the second hive as a breeder
all other factors being equal. In the second hive the varroa
population is growing slower.
Essentially after 1 season he was able to get the nd doubling rate
of varroa from 15 days (unselected stock) to 20 days. He
subsequently got about 1 extra per season in following years. I
believe he did this selection for 4 seasons so the nd doubling rate
went from 15 days to 23 days. What it all boils down to is if varroa
levels are moderate in the spring with a slower growth rate then on
September 1 when he would start treating colonies the varroa levels
are not sky high.
A quick scan at my calendar and from may1 to august 28 there would
be 8 2 week cycles for varroa to double their nd. So 1 varroa on may
1
may 15 - 2 varroa nd
may 29 - 4 varroa nd
june 12 - 8 varroa nd
june 26 - 16 varroa nd
july 10 - 32 varroa nd
july 24 - 64 varroa nd
august 7 - 128 varroa nd (this hive is toast)
august 21 - 256 varroa nd
sept 1 - 365 varroa nd
Now if we use selected stock that has a varroa nd doubling rate of 3
weeks then:
May 1 - 1 varroa nd
may 22 - 2 varroa nd
june 12 - 4 varroa nd
july 3 - 8 varroa nd
july 24 - 16 varroa nd
august 14 - 32 varroa nd
sept 1 - 43 varroa nd.
This colony headed by selected stock has a pretty good chance of
surviving if treatments are started immediately. I thought this was
way kewl on JP's part.
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Friday, March 6th, 2009
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I'm involved with BEE-L again, from the migration to
a new host, to
list management. Not sure what to think. I've had issues with the moderation
policies in the past, but never give up hope. So far things are looking
good. No abuse apparent.
The BEE-L list was migrated complete with archives to an improved
server,
If you were subscribed, you won't have to sign up again for the
mailing list, but you may need a new password on the web interface
if you use it to read or change options Most people do all that by
email commands, though.
As you may know, BEE-L is a mailing list, not a forum, so when
subscribed, you receive all posts by email in real time, and can
reply to any of them simply by hitting, "Reply". Since BEE-L is a
single channel, unlike a bulletin board, BEE-L is moderated and
every post is scrutinized to reduce chatter and minimize "noise'
before being sent to all recipients. The discussions are intended
for intermediate to advanced beekeepers, although all levels do
participate.
There is also a web interface that looks like a bulletin board, and
posts can be made form the web, but email is the primary method of
participation.
Anyone can subscribe, and more information is available at
http://www.honeybeeworld.com/bee-l/ Hopefully the links are all
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Our sauna quit working
a few weeks back. The company sent us a new panel, but it wasn't the one
that caused to problem. I phoned them and they sent another part, no
questions asked. It arrived while Ellen & I were in three Hills taking
back bottles and getting groceries. I installed it and the sauna is
working again!
I watched some episodes of
Get Smart: Season 1 Disc 1. It actually is
not as stupid as I remember it/
Saturday, March 7th, 2009
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| From
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As Cold As The 1800s
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One problem with the whole question is the oversimplification of a
complex matter.
I personally do not believe that human activity is the major
contributor to global climate change, but I do believe that it
obviously must have some effect.
So, if asked, "Do you accept that human activity is a cause of
global warming?" and I had to answer yes or no, I would have to
answer, "Yes".
However if you asked me, "Do you believe that human activity is the
major cause of the climate change we see today and must be altered
on that account?" I would have to say, "I don't know", or "I doubt
it is possible".
So much depends on the question asked. Of course and scientist
worthy of the name has doubts about almost everything, so has to
answer, "yes", to the loaded questions about human activity and
climate change being bandied about. However, if one takes the time
to dig deeper, I suspect many fewer than the numbers quoted are
convinced that we can predict the effects of human activity and that
we could determine a correct course of action if the answer came
back, "yes".
On the ther hand, I doubt that anyone with eyes can doubt that
pollution, erosion and resource depletion are real problems that we
can and must deal with constantly.
I personally think that the entire global warming scare has been
manufactured to deal with the political problems surrounding oil,
gas, and coal supplies. These resources are concentrated in regions
and the extraction and distribution distorts the world economy.
I doubt that the people of the world would gather around a practical
movement to deal with that issue, but it has been proven time and
again in religion and politics that people will rally around ideas
that are vague, un-provable and ridiculous when viewed from afar.
The feature of the new alternate energy solutions is that they are
distributed and not concentrated. Even if they are not as cheap at
this point in time, the costs are predictable going into the future.
They also tend to be less polluting in the long run and sustainable.
As we find we are requiring more and more energy to extract each
barrel of oil (8:1 now compared to 35:1 return decades back) we find
we are running more and more to stay in the same spot with
petroleum, since the deposits get deeper and deeper and more and
more remote, and less and less concentrated.
So, my take on the whole question is that we are being fed a fairy
tale that is sufficiently incomprehensible, while being somewhat
simple and believable, to direct us in a path to energy solutions
that are less likely to wind up in wars, wild price fluctuations,
depletion and scarcity.
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Tuesday, March 10th, 2009
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I've been very active on BEE-L
and less so on BeeSource. What I'm increasingly realising is that no topic
is ever completely settled. The same topics keep coming up and the answers
keep changing. One exchange perhaps sheds some light on that matter:
Why Most Published Research Findings Are False See also
the original BEE-L article
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Hi Allen,
I really enjoy your website, especially
your diary - glad to see it is active again!
I have been a long time lurker on the
Bee-List and have been enjoying your comments on finding breeders
that are demonstrating mite/disease resistance in their programme.
I raise all of our own queens, treating for
mites only when levels reach thresholds and selecting queen mothers
from the strongest hives the following spring of the top producers
of the previous season.
Our wintering has improved, but would love
to incorporate more disease resistance. I am a member of the
Manitoba Queen Breeders Association maintained at the University of
Manitoba by Dr. Rob Currie, but have also been trying to find other
sources of queens with proven resistance. I have had no success in
locating breeders able to ship to Canada or located in Canada. I
would love to get my hands on a Glenn Apiaries breeder!
I have used a Russian from a Saskatchewan
breeder and was marginally happy with the F1s. They were, however,
subject to chalk brood. I also bought 25 queens a few years ago from
[a former researcher] in Ontario as he claimed varroa resistance.
They were horrible to say the least and customer service was not
evident (he told me I was the first to put a deposit in and would
get the first available queens and then later told me that he had
sold out when I called to see why my queens hadn't arrived!).
Whether they were varroa resistant or not I
can't say as they were so poor performing that we had to add feed
during a honey flow! We are a small commercial operation (850 hives)
and that sort of honey production was not acceptable regardless of
pedigree. Hope you have success finding Queen breeders with
successful resistance programmes. So far I have had no luck. Keep up
the good work! Look forward to hearing more!
Cheers!
Mike |
I'm still looking for more names for my listing of queen breeders and
organizations that are producing varroa and disease resistant stocks with
commercial qualities. Please
Write me with any
addresses you might have.
Lee
sent me the Alberta Apiary Job Descriptions that the
Alberta Beekeepers Commission has developed. These
will be very useful. The three downloadable descriptions are:
Apiary Worker,
Apiary Harvester, and
Apiary Technician.
Some
time back, I wrote the Green Certificate course for training beekeepers.
This and each step to formalise the qualifications in our industry help us
develop a worker pool. Moreover, the existence of qualifications and
contributes to confidence in the financing of potential buyers for bee
operations when the time comes for owners to sell.
Downloads:
Apiary Worker |
Apiary Harvester |
Apiary Technician.
Thursday, March 12th, 2009
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My
mother turns 90 today. Her sister is 95. She is having a celebration
with my sister and some friends tonight in Sudbury, and my brother, my family and
I will meet her in Victoria in several weeks for another party.
Friday, March 13th, 2009
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Saturday, March 14th, 2009
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I'm glad you're taking on this project. I'm in total agreement
with you and am happy to help you in any way I can. I've put
together a map and a list of the suppliers of resistant stock that I
know of. You can find it at
www.glenn-apiaries.com/queenproducers.html There are also maps
for VSH, Russian, and MN hygienics separately at
www.glenn-apiaries.com/vsh.html
www.glenn-apiaries.com/russian.html and
www.glenn-apiaries.com/minn.html . You may also be interested to
see some distribution maps of VSH and MN Hygienic breeder queens at
www.glenn-apiaries.com/mn_hygienic_maps.html and
www.glenn-apiaries.com/vsh_maps.html. These last two include
both commercial and non commercial queen breeders.
As for resistant stock in Canada, I know Steve Pernal at Beaverlodge
has a project going for which we sent up a lot of our stock last
year. So you might check with him about what his plans are. Also
you might talk to Liz Huxter in BC, she is working with Steve.
We've found the resistant stocks to be working well. We haven't done
routine treatments for about 8 years and have had very little
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We
worked on the quonset again. All the tape had come undone, and since we
have a rib that is missing, we took the end hoop off in order to get some extra
parts. That reduces the length by 6 feet to 96 feet, but allows us to grip
an undamaged portion of the tarp covering. A bit of the end had come loose
previously and was wind-whipped. When the tape gave out, the whipping
continued and a bit more damage had occurred. The tarp concept works well
as long as it is well-fastened. I think we have had the building for over
ten years now, and although the covering shows some wear, it should be good for
another five.
I had written Tom Glenn a
few days ago, and heard back today. I realise now that I should have spent
more time on his site. The lists I have been thinking we need are already
there in most part.
I think we need more
detail on Canadian projects though, so I wrote Liz around the same time and just
heard back. She is offshore at present, but we'll maybe get the queen list
going again when she gets back. We need better communication among those
working on resistant commercial stock in Canada.
I saw the report on the BC
project for last year and it does not look like much, but as always, there are
always stories under the surface. Our biggest problem in Canada is
producing sufficient stock to meet demand at the time of year it is needed or to
get beekeepers to alter their timing.
Most beekeepers now buy
queens in May for splits, with lesser numbers in June and July. Canadian
producers have problems coming up with quantity earlier than June. We did
it when we raised queens, but it took a lot of resources the get the same good
results that are so easy to get in swarming season, only a few weeks later
Some beekeepers do, indeed
do later splits and make up increase for the next year, and that is where the
Canadian queens become more practical. Usually such splits are made with a
frame with brood and bees and a second frame of bees, plus feed. Such
splits often make honey at the end of the season, and build to colonies that
winter well, coming through with a young queen and a producing unit the next
year.
Sunday, March 15th, 2009
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I
heard a crash and awoke at 1 AM from a sound sleep. It sounded like a bag of garbage falling
onto the floor. I looked around and had a drink of water. I figured
the cat had knocked something over. I then looked outside and saw nothing
unusual except a light shining up the railway track and a red light that
appeared to be in my neighbour's feedlot or up the tracks. Strange, I thought and could not
figure the cause. There was no train on the siding, but maybe one had
stopped up the tracks a ways? railway activity at night was not unusual. I was awake, so checked email. Then
the trucks started congregating at the end of our driveway, and the emergency
vehicles started showing up. Soon there were about 15 vehicles and 40
people milling around on our property across the road. I realised
that there had been an accident.
I wandered out to see if I
could help, but there were more than enough people there, so I went in again.
Soon the Stars Air Ambulance came by, but left without landing. That
chopper means bad news because it does not come unless someone is very badly
hurt. Strobes
were out on our railway pasture land, but later I heard that fog was
closing in and they had to leave without landing.
Apparently a late
model extended cab pickup truck with eight young people -- none wearing a
seat belt -- had missed the curve and rolled on the way home from a party.
This morning I went out and my neighbour was looking over the mess.
They had towed the truck away by three AM and only a bit of debris was left.
There were a few bottles, cans, some truck parts and several shoes plus some
miscellaneous junk.
He told me that he
and his son had heard the accident and been there first. His son said
he had heard the kids go by and they must have been flying. From the
looks of the tracks, they were in a four-wheel skid before the corner and
when they launched off a hump the truck flew 50 or more feet before touching
down and rolling several times. One kid is in the hospital with
serious back injuries and two others are quite serious. The rest are
OK, and some walked away.
We looked the site over
and noticed the checkerboard sign that was once on the curve was nowhere in
sight and the curve sign we recalled seeing farther back up the road was not
there either, nor was there any indication that either sign had been in place
recently. Of course, living there, we never thought anything of it, or
even missed them. There never were any reflectorized posts marking the
curve. There was, though, a corporate limits sign and speed change to 60
KPH a quarter mile or more back.
Well, I'm fed up with
BeeSource now. I thought I'd found a real commercial beekeepers forum and
guess what, the usual posers showed up with the usual load of horse manure.
Then some moderator started editing my posts so I don't recognise them. I
requested that if they don't like a post, please just delete the whole thing,
but do not edit my writing to say what they wish it said.
Could be I'm just really
touchy today. Maybe that wreck is bothering me more than I think.
One of the kids mother came by this morning to look over the crash scene and
knocked at our door and I think it affected me. A lot.
What is a commercial
beekeeper? To me a commercial beekeeper is someone who makes a living from
the bees and produces bees, honey, pollen, or pollination in significant
quantities and has no other major business activities. I figure that 500
hives is the cut-off, but maybe I have to compromise. Queen producers can
be pretty busy with less.
Are sideliners commercial
beekeepers? Maybe within the strictest limits, but until they cut the
cord, they are not IMO real members of that very exclusive club. The
psychology is different even for serious crofters and weekenders, compared to
real hardcore full-time beekeepers. As for the posers... Well, we've
had too many of those "leading" our industry and often working against
the interests of the best and the brightest and operating from fear and
imaginings.
At least BEE-L is running
smoothly and on a high plane. Touch wood. We've had some really good comments on
BEE-L, with discussion between Bob and others on the question of why many U.S.
commercial beekeepers do not seem to be getting with the program when it comes
to resistant bees. he says some treat four times a year! How can that be
sensible? The thread is
here.
On BEE-L, a moderator can
refuse or accept a post, but not change it. After years of wondering, I'm
realizing what a good thing that is.
We had company for lunch.
Kate and Dave and their kids and Doreen, Kate's Mom came by and spent the
afternoon. Of course we went out and walked around the crash scene.
After they left, a young
cop came by to measure up the site. He had been out the night before and
had pictures, but needed more detail. He was very young and very nice.
We hear some bad things about Mounties from time to time, but every time I meet
one, they seem very professional and caring. We had a chat about the
missing sign(s). He seemed quite moved by the accident and concerned about
the victims.
I guess everyone feels the
same. We have one of these wrecks with local kids involved every year, it
seems, and in the country everyone knows everyone. There are a million
people in Calgary and Edmonton, all within a twenty-mile radius and I hardly
know more than a few dozen, but somehow, I know hundreds of country people
scattered all over Alberta.
The kids were from
small towns and farms ten miles away or more, but all the names were familiar.
I know their parents or grandparents, or know of them. One year we had one
of these incidents, with a fatality right in the middle of extracting and my
young crew was no good for anything for over week from grief.
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Subject: Canadian Honey Council asking for $50 million
The Canadian Honey Council is asking for $50 million for
disaster relief from the government after another year of bee
losses across the country.
In Canada, the average loss of hives was 33 per cent last year.
Some areas, like Peace River in Alberta and Vancouver, lost 70
per cent of hives this past winter.
President of the honey council and owner of Planet Bee in
Vernon, Ed Nowek, wants solutions.
"If you can imagine someone losing 70 per cent of their
livelihood," said Nowek, "it's not just the loss of the bees,
but also the income of those bees. Then the cost of replacing
them, which can be insurmountable for some people if you don't
have bees to generate the income."
Last year Planet Bee had losses of more than 50 per cent, and
this year his losses were 15 per cent.
"There has been two years now of way over average losses," he
said.
It was a similar story at Stawn's Honey. They lost 25 per cent
this year, which is better than half their population like in
2007, but the trend still leaves part-owner Kristy Anderson
worried.
"We didn't lose as much, but still have losses," said Anderson,
"but that is normal for everyone now."
Anderson knows a beekeeper who had 500 hives, and lost
everything this year.
She has seen beekeepers selling their businesses because of
losses, and it takes constant monitoring and money to keep their
bees healthy.
"People are just getting discouraged, and many of the people in
this business are older and it is really hard work to keep up,"
she said.
"We have a project called Hive Health that we want government
funding for," said Nowek. "We need government help bad, so in
addition to our $50 million disaster relief, we are asking for
$10 million over five years to fund this Hive Health
initiative."
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After I went to bed last night I realised how much the wreck
had affected me. I realised that I had been upset all day.
Add to that the fact that I have been slightly depressed since fall,
and ... I'm just not cut out to spend winters in the cold and dark.
Somehow I thought that I would save a few dollars and stay home more this
winter, but all I learned is that going south in January has been saving my
sanity.
I'm off to Victoria for a few weeks soon, and then the
Caribbean to sail back to Buffalo, assuming I follow thru.
We worked on the quonset a bit more today and celebrated
St. Urho's Day
Tuesday, March 17th, 2009
St Patrick's Day & Jean's
Birthday
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My neighbour and I had noticed the morning after the wreck that
the curve sign and the checkerboard signs were nowhere to be seen on the curve.
I had mentioned it to the Mountie, and assumed he would report. Today, I thought
I'd give the County sign person a call and see. She had not heard that
these signs are missing. I'm sure they will remedy the problem PDQ.
Ellen & I drove up to Jean's in the afternoon and had a supper
party with Jean and family, then stayed the night.
Wednesday, March 18th, 2009
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This morning, we got up, visited a while and headed home,
getting groceries along the way. When we arrived back home, I had half
expected that there would be some signs up to mark the curve. Nope.
So I drove up the road and took a few pictures. It turns out that the
curve was a perfect trap for anyone who had a slight distraction and missed the
speed reduction. Take a drive with me.
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Click any image to enlarge |
0 km - 0 sec
Road appears straight to the horizon. |
0.1 km - 4 sec
Same. |
0.3 km - 11 sec
Still looks fine. Maybe a narrow spot far ahead? |
0.4 km - 15 sec
What's that?
Where's the road?
Hit the brakes! |
0.6 km - 22 sec
Skid begins. |
0.9 km - 33 sec
Off the edge. |
Two speed
reduction signs and a corporate limits sign pass by close together
at right in the first and second frame.
Blink and you'll miss them. There are no further signs or
markings. |
All this, from first hint to ditch takes seconds., and this view is shown in
daylight. Imagine it at night with distractions in the truck and lights
coming down the hill two miles away. At night those cars coming down the
hill a mile or two more away (after the road straightens again) appear to be
close and approaching directly on what seems to be a continuous straight road.
I often dim for them. One would not see the curve, even at 0.4 km from the
town limit signs in the dark. There is no white line and no marker posts
and no checkerboard -- and no curve sign!
At 100 KPH, 1.66 km goes by each minute or 27 m/second. That means each 0.1
km takes a little under 4 seconds. Some people drive faster, some slower
or the open road.
 I'm about to head out for a trip and decided to check my car over. The
engine has been stumbling a bit when cold and the fuel economy has been dropping
off a bit. I suspected the mass air flow sensor (right), so cleaned it
today with brake cleaner and a soft brush. What a difference!
I also started hearing noise from the rear brakes, and so I pulled a wheel.
I'd forgotten I have four-wheel disk brakes. I hardly use them and the
back brake rotors rusted, then glazed. They work OK, and braking is good,
but I have grown cautious and think I'd better change the pads and rotors.
We'll see.
Thursday, March 19th, 2009
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I'm working on the car today. I ordered the rear brake parts and gave
Matt a call. I plan to get the quonset tied down better later today when
it warms up enough that hopefully the side rail that is frozen into the ground
will thaw enough that it will rotate so I can put the rib back in.
Sunday, March 22nd, 2009
WINTER STORM WARNING
CONTINUED
High 1°C Low -10°C
Normals: Max: 6 °C Min: -6°C
Sunrise 0731 0 Sunset 1949
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Today: Snow ending late this afternoon then cloudy with 30 percent chance of
flurries. Amount 5 to 10 cm. Local blowing snow this afternoon. Wind northwest
30 km/h gusting to 50. High plus 1.
Tonight: Cloudy. 30 percent chance of flurries this evening. Wind northwest
30 km/h gusting to 50 becoming light near midnight. Low minus 10.
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