Last weekend I attempted the “sugar roll” method of testing for varroa mite infestation of my hives. After carefull rolling, shaking and peering under my microscope ….no mites were found. Today the official testeds for Agriquality are testing my hives using a miticide and stickyboards. We’ll see tomorrow. On a sad note Leigh lost one…
Month: June 2006
Exploding Duck
Here is an interesting one. Yesterday morning Leigh and Calgary were walking in the pre-dawn darkness when there was an all mightly BANG, a flash of light and a duck fell from the sky. Calgary though it a gubshot, and ran towards the noise, leigh was scared spitless and was wondering what someone was doing…
New Blog…
Howdy all. I’ve been working on a new blog that will live on the Squids website. PLEASE, check it out and let me know what you think! Eventually it will take over from this one, so be prepared, but, until further notice, please make posts and comments here. Anything you enter on the new site…
Update From the Antipodes
Howdy all. If Terry can do it I can do it! So lets see what the heck has been going on. Now of course its winter here. We’ve been having a few weeks of very cold (well for us very cold) wx and some snow in part of the coutntry. In fact, there are parts…
Messed up…
The web site was completely hosed when I looked at it this morning. Not sure what happened, but if you notice anything out of whack, let me know.