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Title: Beekeeping in Slovenia - home of Apis mellifera carnica
Post by: gustav on November 08, 2006, 10:25:11 pm
Hi beekeepers

Have a look at my Slovenian beekeeping web site

http://www.augustin.si

and bee cool  :-D
Title: Re: Beekeeping in Slovenia - home of Apis mellifera carnica
Post by: pdmattox on November 08, 2006, 11:05:41 pm
Very cool website love the pic's. Welcome aboard gustav.
Title: Re: Beekeeping in Slovenia - home of Apis mellifera carnica
Post by: Mici on November 09, 2006, 11:29:50 am
i can not express my happines of you joining ;)
WELCOME!
Title: Re: Beekeeping in Slovenia - home of Apis mellifera carnica
Post by: gustav on November 09, 2006, 11:47:26 am
Thank you for good wishes   :-D  :-D  :-D
Title: Re: Beekeeping in Slovenia - home of Apis mellifera carnica
Post by: beemaster on November 09, 2006, 03:05:56 pm
Gustav:

As the other said, GREAT TO HAVE YOU WITH US - your website is very informative, well laid-out and the photos of your site really bring life to your writing. Very well done and welcome to the forums, hope to see you here often.

Title: Re: Beekeeping in Slovenia - home of Apis mellifera carnica
Post by: Cindi on November 10, 2006, 10:20:11 am
My first introduction to bees was with packages of Carniolan species, imported from Australia.  I have to say that these are very gentle and lovely bees to keep.  I am coming into my 3rd year in beekeeping and I love the Carniolan.  I have heard that they have a propensity for swarming, but I have not encountered any problems with this so far.  They are always hard at work and never bother much when I work with their hive.  On the other hand, I caught a swarm during my first summer of beekeeping and learned alot that summer about cranky bees.  They must have had some nasty genes for sure.  I kept this swarm through the winter and requeened it with a queen I had raised from my Carniolan colony.  Not to say that this young queen was true to her genetics, because I am sure that possibly some drone from a neighbouring farm may have mated with her mother.  I presume that then we have a mixed breed queen in this manner.  Anyways, the temperament of this swarm changed, much more docile, but still not as sweet as the neighbouring Carniolan colonies.  I lost this swarm hive to the varroa destructor mite, such a nasty infliction.  There was such bad damage to this hive even before I realized what the signs were, too late, but I am prepped and ready.  I have treated my hives with formic acid and will work with the icing sugar next year.  I am endeavouring to never have the mite in such great numbers again.  It actually decimated several of my colonies over time.  Last summer I would see bees crawling around on the ground, some even long ways from their hives, being new to beekeeping, I thought that this was a natural die off, from bees wings fraying from so much work.  Hmmm....so many things to learn about our dear girls.  Regards, Cindi
Title: Re: Beekeeping in Slovenia - home of Apis mellifera carnica
Post by: gustav on November 11, 2006, 12:28:24 pm
HI

Cindi, you have in summer  one Carniolan queen from me.  :-*

Regards Gustav
Title: Re: Beekeeping in Slovenia - home of Apis mellifera carnica
Post by: Cindi on November 12, 2006, 12:46:07 am
HI

Cindi, you have in summer  one Carniolan queen from me.  :-*

Regards Gustav
Gustav, I am sorry, but I do not know what you mean when you said about in summer one Carniolan queen from you.  Are you going to send me one?  I'm sorry, but your statement was confusing.  Regards.  Cindi.
Title: Re: Beekeeping in Slovenia - home of Apis mellifera carnica
Post by: gustav on November 12, 2006, 03:02:37 am
Cindi  sorry, my first language is not English.

If you wish, I am  going to send you one  Carniolan queen bee.   You said, that you love the Carniolan.

best regars G
Title: Re: Beekeeping in Slovenia - home of Apis mellifera carnica
Post by: abejaruco on November 15, 2006, 03:00:47 pm
Good "book", as you say. I´m happy knowing about your country. Thanks "Cicerone".
Title: Re: Beekeeping in Slovenia - home of Apis mellifera carnica
Post by: beemaster on November 15, 2006, 04:15:50 pm
Gustav:

My bees only fly a few kilometers, your Carnolian Queen would surely break any record that my crappy Italian Bees ever set. Very nice jesture from you to offer her a queen.
Title: Re: Beekeeping in Slovenia - home of Apis mellifera carnica
Post by: LET-CA on May 09, 2007, 09:57:31 pm
Hi beekeepers

Have a look at my Slovenian beekeeping web site

http://www.augustin.si

and bee cool  :-D

Wonderful site!  I love the photos.
Title: Re: Beekeeping in Slovenia - home of Apis mellifera carnica
Post by: Cindi on May 10, 2007, 01:48:32 am
LET-CA, good to resurrect the post.  I may still get a Carniolan queen or two from Slovenia from Gustov, that would be very cool.  Best of a beautiful day, great life, may the sun shine and good health. Cindi
Title: Re: Beekeeping in Slovenia - home of Apis mellifera carnica
Post by: nepenthes on May 13, 2007, 11:33:25 pm
AMAZING I love your site it is very well laid out and easy to read.

One suggestion, make the English button bigger!
Title: Re: Beekeeping in Slovenia - home of Apis mellifera carnica
Post by: Misko on July 13, 2007, 01:27:23 pm
Hi everyone!

I am also from slovenia as you can se!  ;)
Slowly the will be more slovenes on this forum than foreigners  :-D

My English isn't very good as you can se because it isn't my primary language :oops:

Regards, BoÅ¡tjan!  :)
Title: Re: Beekeeping in Slovenia - home of Apis mellifera carnica
Post by: Mici on July 13, 2007, 04:50:14 pm
the number is at 3 currently. gustav kind of isn't participating so...it's just me, TBH-fan and you.
slowly but surelly we'll take over the forum, beemaster be ware! :-D
oh, almost forgot to say, welcome aboard this much more opened forum, Miško
Title: Re: Beekeeping in Slovenia - home of Apis mellifera carnica
Post by: Understudy on July 14, 2007, 08:16:38 am
Hey Beemaster,

When are you going overseas to meet all these members that live outside of the US?
I am still waiting for my passport, but I will be in Taz in October.
 :-D
Sincerely,
Brendhan
Title: Re: Beekeeping in Slovenia - home of Apis mellifera carnica
Post by: Cindi on July 14, 2007, 11:21:08 am
Misko, welcome, it is wonderful to see people from far away places in the world come into our forum.  Good, don't worry about your English, it is admirable that you are doing the best that you can with the language stuff, yeah!!!!  Good for you, and again welcome, have a wonderful day, great life.  Cindi
Title: Re: Beekeeping in Slovenia - home of Apis mellifera carnica
Post by: Misko on July 14, 2007, 11:57:30 am
Thank you for good wishes! ;)
Title: Re: Beekeeping in Slovenia - home of Apis mellifera carnica
Post by: Kathyp on July 14, 2007, 12:48:13 pm
misko, your english is fine.  some of us have english as our first language and still can't communicate!  :-)
Title: Re: Beekeeping in Slovenia - home of Apis mellifera carnica
Post by: topbarslo on July 18, 2007, 06:35:10 pm
Another slovenian guy here on beemaster :D

I already know some of you guys from slovenian beekeepers forum. I guess Misko and Mici are the same guys hehe.

Be good all
Title: Re: Beekeeping in Slovenia - home of Apis mellifera carnica
Post by: Mici on July 18, 2007, 07:10:34 pm
so...the gates are opened!!!
let the invasion BEGIN!!!!
from 4 (only one active, one semi-active) to 6(3 active, one semi) in just one week, it trully is an invasion.

yep, we're the same guys and you are??? "cebelar-novinec"??
Title: Re: Beekeeping in Slovenia - home of Apis mellifera carnica
Post by: topbarslo on July 18, 2007, 07:37:10 pm
Yep I am cebelar-novinec currently browsing through beemaster forum. I see this is another great beekeeping resource on the internet :D
Title: Re: Beekeeping in Slovenia - home of Apis mellifera carnica
Post by: Misko on July 19, 2007, 11:16:44 am
Welcome topbarslo!!

We must tell the other beekeepers from slovenia about this forum becase there is much that we can learn here.
@Mici do you know if maybe "Frank iz kanade" is a member of this forum?

Regards, Boštjan!
Title: Re: Beekeeping in Slovenia - home of Apis mellifera carnica
Post by: Mici on July 19, 2007, 11:25:29 am
Miško, i think there's no need to tell them about it. i mean really, those who wish to learn, search and sooner or later find. i don't know....
yep, Frank is here, or should i say was here. he participated i think long before me, and rejoined about a year ago, but left again due to..some reasons.
i find his post at most educational so every now and then i would look up all his posts and read them again. on this, and our forum. he should really write a book or at least make a pile of notes on one place.
anyway, you can find his posts under the name "trot"
Title: Re: Beekeeping in Slovenia - home of Apis mellifera carnica
Post by: tbh-fan on July 20, 2007, 03:58:53 am
ulala!

how many of us!
Title: Re: Beekeeping in Slovenia - home of Apis mellifera carnica
Post by: Misko on July 20, 2007, 05:29:50 am
The gates are realy opened  :)
tbh-fan welcome to to the beekeeper hive  ;)
mici thanks for the info :)
Regards, Boštjan!

Title: Re: Beekeeping in Slovenia - home of Apis mellifera carnica
Post by: Kathyp on July 20, 2007, 08:35:34 pm
so now if i come to slovenia can i pitch a tent in someones backyard??  :-)  oregon is always open to your tent!  i still would like to pry cindi out of BC, but i don't think she's moving!
Title: Re: Beekeeping in Slovenia - home of Apis mellifera carnica
Post by: Misko on July 21, 2007, 01:37:46 am
My backyard is always ready. So when do you plant to come?  :-D
Title: Re: Beekeeping in Slovenia - home of Apis mellifera carnica
Post by: Cindi on July 21, 2007, 11:39:48 am
Kathy, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.  YOu made a funny.  No, I think I am stuck here.  Have a wonderful day, great life.  Cindi