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Weatherproofing with Paraffin & Tree Rosin

Comparisons

More Combo Pictures

NEVADA CO. BEEKEEPERS ASSOCIATION

INFORMATION

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INFORMATION AND PICTURES

Khalil Hamdan Articles

Dewey Caron on PS

Pictures - Misc

Mites- Sticky Board Pictu

In The News

HONEY, EGGS & PRODUCE

Instructions

USING THE COMBO SBB

Using Powdered Sugar

Powdered Sugar Time Line

Troubleshooting

Randy Oliver's Method

Favorite Articles

Modifying Sticky Board

Drone Brood Manipulation

ANOTHER REASON

ORDERS, QUESTIONS & STUFF

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Screened Bottom Boards are the most important componet of Intergrated Pest Managment  

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Make them yourselves, buy them from us or buy them somewhere else, but get them on your hives!

Country Rubes

20693 Dog Bar Road
Grass Valley, CA 95949
530-913-2724
rubes@countryrubes.com


Trouble with your Plastic Observation Boards?  Please go to  TROUBLESHOOTING. <Here


Available at these fine stores and catalogs.  Please order from the distributer closest to you to save on shipping. Click on the link to go directly to website.


Dadant


Sacramento Beekeeping Supplies, CA

Beekind Beekeeping Supplies, Sebastopol, CA

Ruhl Bee Supply, Gladstone, OR

 Dave Schoenmann at Shastina Millworks 
White City, Oregon (Medford area)  
541-601-1102  
 
dave@shastinamillwork.com

Philip Smith, Eugene, Oregon
541-302-1419
 
ibeephilip@yahoo.com

Jones' Apiaries
Farmington, CT 
860-677-9391

info@jonesapiaries.com  

Sherwood Honey, Bees & Supply

150 Debra Lane
Onalaska, WA 98570
360-985-2211
nwmsi@wildblue.net

SPECIALS!

BLEMS - $30.00 LIMITED TIME ONLY

All SBB have redwood feet

Our Combo Screened Bottom Boards come weatherproof  and are ready to place under your hive.  These boards have been boiled in a solution of paraffin and tree rosin and will last for years.  They finish does darken with age, but retains it's weatherproofing abilities.  No other treatment is necessary.  Paint will not stick to this finish.  Read letters about the results of weatherproofing HERE!


Unfinished Boards - Looking for untreated undipped wood, ready for paint or whatever,  purchase here .


Would you like to pick up from us directly to save shipping?  Please contact us directly.


NEW ITEMS:

   GRIDDED OBSERVATION 'STICKY' BOARD



 NEW ENTRANCE REDUCERS


  
Freeman Small Hive Beetle Trays made to fit our screen bottom boards.



8 Frame Hives?

We made a reducer to fit our Combo Screen Bottom Board.


 



<----- Video of Powdered Sugar Dusting Bees

Video of inserting Plastic Boards.


Powdered Sugar Pictures, take a look!


Comparing side by side, The Combo and a commerical screened board.

More Videos, Radio Shows and Newsy Items - In The News!
 

The Multi-Function Anti-Varroa Screen Board that makes hive management, observing and trapping mites so easy.

CLICK HERE to Check Out our Features!


ABOUT US

Beekeeping was never on the list of things we wanted to do but suddenly in 1995 our farm simply stopped producing due to lack of pollination. As 30+ year organic gardeners, we were disappointed to discover that in order to keep bees we would have to use some type of pesticide to save them from the Varroa Mites. The least toxic form of chemical is Apistan® which is no longer killing all of the mites, but knocking them down to the floorboard where they are revived and climb back on the bees. These tougher Apistan® resistant mites require a stronger pesticide to kill them.

Trying to get back to our organic roots, we started working with screens, sticky boards and powdered sugar (click here for full instructions) to control Varroa Mites.  This board is the accumulation of years of experiments plus the help and advice of our more experienced beekeeper friends. We are excited about the results we are getting and are sure you will be equally pleased.





NEVADA COUNTY BEEKEEPERS

 Learn  about our exciting meetings.
Sign up for information for the 2011 Beekeeping Classes or check out the latest and pass issues of 'The Local Buzz', featuring articles by Randy Oliver 
HERE!


BEEKEEPING SITES & FORUMS!

Favorite sites:
Randy Olivers Website

BeeSource Forum!

Google sci. Agriculture.beekeeping

Open Screened Bottom Boards and Varroa Mite Study fromSwitzerland by Jean Pierre Chapleau

Letters and posts on our BeeBlog Page, sort of a interactive diary.

 

MORE STUFF!
CLICK ON ANY OF THE BELOW.

In the News - My interviesw on Radio, in Publications and Videos!

Honey Statement!  Honey without Pesticides !
 
Articles about Country Rubes Farm, a little on self-sufficient farming, Shiitake  Mushrooms and of course, BEES!   

Kahlil Hamdan's Beekeeping Instructions - Easy to understand beekeeping lessons!
  
Dr. Dewey Caron's latest article - Powder Sugaring Bees – Does it work? 

Bees Bearding Phenomenon by Kahlil Hamdan - Why Ventilation and Screened Bottom Boards are so important.


                                                Drone Manipulation.  Dutch Method with pictures!!


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*Multi-Function Combo Board Makes Varroa Mite Control A Breeze