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The Cavity Compromise by Adrian Quiney

The Cavity Compromise

A Sustainable System

Adrian Quiney

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Category: Books

Northern Bee Books. 1st ed., 2023
Paperback, 86 Pages
244 × 170 mm
ISBN 978-1-914934-52-0

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Description

How to integrate mite control, swarm control, honey production, and the overwintering of nucleus colonies in a northern climate using biotechnical controls and leveraging the bees’ own abilities.

People with a beginner’s interest in bees are often disturbed to learn that their bees will die without some form of varroa mite control. I was, and some of mine did. Yet they didn’t all perish. Data that I obtained from the Bee Informed Partnership for my region showed that the average overwintering survival rate for the bees of non-migratory beekeepers, even with chemical mite control, is around half. Luck, intuition, skepticism, thrift, research, the observations of others, and the help of generous online mentors has led me to develop a method that has allowed me to overwinter more than two thirds of my colonies consistently without chemical mite control.

I have written this book to offer an alternative to traditional methods that have not been working for sustainable beekeeping. This book is meant to save you money and, increase your chances of having a surplus of bees in the spring.

Contents

1. Introduction
2. Blundering into Beekeeping
3. The First Reckoning and Nucleus Based Solutions
4. The Second Reckoning and a Solution to Production Hive Mite Problems
5. Nuc Boxes Lids Bottom Boards etc.
6. Biotechnical Beekeeping Methods Elaborated
6.1. Basic drone trapping / mite removal
6.2. Integrating basic drone trapping / mite removal with disselkoen splitting and Palmer nucing
6.3. The Mel Disselkoen component: broodbreaks and cells
6.4. The Michael Palmer component: using nucleus colonies
7. Managing the growing nucleus colony
7.1. Causing and avoiding fall swarming
7.2. Winter preparation for 5/5 nucleus colonies
7.3. Early Spring work in the 5/5 nucleus apiary
8. Bee Sales
9. Dutch Drone Trapping Method For Midwestern US Nectar Flows
10. Cavity Expansions and Contractions back to 5/5’s
11. A Cavity Compromised an Argument Against Through Ventilation in a Cold Climate
12. Epilogue/Conclusion
13. References

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