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What's New |
| Beekeeper Starter Pack includes cedar hive, bees, protective equipment, etc, only £425 |
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Observation Hive only £149 For the beekeeper who has everything - a really special present |
| Pollen Chart Only £1.99 P&P £0.50 |
| Available Now - Ply Supers, Ply Broods, Ply Nucleus Boxes |
| All the protective kit you need |
| Smoker, Hive Tool, Gloves, Small Beesuit Only £89.99 P&P £10 |
| Smoker, Hive Tool, Gloves, Medium Beesuit Only £89.99 P&P £10 |
| Smoker, Hive Tool, Gloves, Large Beesuit Only £89.99 P&P £10 |
| Smoker, Hive Tool, Gloves, Extra Large Beesuit Only £89.99 P&P £10 |
Varroa Treatment |
| Eradicate the mite! |
| NEW Api Life Var - Organic Thymol Treatment Only £5.49 P&P £1 Please note that unlike other suppliers our price is for the complete treatment (2 sachets) |
| Oxalic Acid 3.2% Solution with Syringe Only £6.50 P&P £2 |
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The recommended anti-varroa treatment 3.2% Strength as recommended by DEFRA and BBKA Keep safe use a solution, not a vapouriser - who wants to inhale a colourless, poisonous gas? |
Welcome to Fragile Planet Beekeeping Supplies
We can supply all your beekeeping needs including wooden bee hives, hive tools, smokers, bee suits, bee feeders and much more. We specialise in providing gentle Buckfast bees in a 5-frame nucleus box. We supply our gentle Buckfast queens and bees from June.We have limited availability of British (Welsh) Black bee nuclei available from July
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Buy At Our Amazing Prices
| Acarine / Nosema Manley Mixture (250ml Bottle) | |
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| Only £5.00 | P & P £1.50 |
| History - Robert "bert" Orlando Beater Manley (1888-1978) was a British beekeeper, an authority on commercial honey farming and developer of the popular Manley moveable frame hives and frame systems. As well as being the first man to manage 1000 colonies, inventing the Manley frame system. Manley is the source of the practise of feeding sugar to bees in its modern form, stating that "all hives that have been to the moors should be fed 10lb sugar as a precaution against dysentery caused by long confinement during severe winters". Manley adds that while heather honey was not suitable as winter food during periods of confinement, he 'knew of nothing better to encourage a rapid spring build-up' R.O.B Manley propagated the idea of using thymol in syrup intended for winter feeding in order to prevent fermentation and the growth of mould. Manley's thymol recipe has also proven useful in controlling Varroa mites and other diseases such as Nosema and Acarine. Manleys orginal recipe - one ounce of thymol crystals dissolved in five fluid ounces of Surgical spirit to make the stock solution. Then half a fluid ounce of this mixture was added to 1 Cwt (112 lbs) of sugar, which he dissolved in 7 imperial gallons (8.75 US Gal.) of water for direct use as winter feed. Thymol is a generic medicine and therefore cannot be a fully proven method of treatment and therefore will not be an approved VMD treatment method. However there is evidence to suggest this method does work see URL Link http://www.springerlink.com/content/w66r637634t27735/ Research demonstrates that naturally occurring biocides such as thymol reduce bacterial resistance through a synergistic effect, and thymol has been shown to be an effective fungicide. Treatment Add 3 caps (30ml) of the mixture to 1Kg of Sugar dissolved in 1 Litre of water. This is single Manley Strength, The mixture can then be fed to the bees in a contact feeder, This will help prevent mould building up in the feed and help against Nosema, Acarine and varroa. This bottle contains 250ml which is enough for 8kg of sugar dissolved in 8 litres of water | |