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Screened Bottom Boards are the most important component of Integrated Pest Management
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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
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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.
Sacramento Beekeeping Supplies, CA
Beekind Beekeeping Supplies, Sebastopol, CA
Ruhl Bee Supply, Gladstone, OR
Shastina Millworks , White City, Oregon (Medford area) 541-601-1102 dave@shastinamillwork.com
A to Z Supply 13396 Ridge Road Grass Valley, California (530) 273-6608 dan@atozsupply.com
City Farmers Nursery 4832 Home Avenue (@ Euclid Ave) San Diego, CA 92105 (619) 284-6358
Jones' Apiaries Farmington, CT 860-677-9391 info@jonesapiaries.com
CALL TO ORDER AND PICK UP
San Luis Obispo Area Central California Coast --David Maisen--805-474-4010 dmaislen@gmail.com
Escondido, CA -- Lori Dekker California BeeWorks Beekeeping Classes & Blems Home 760-747-4377 and Cell 760-807-2231 twodogplumeria@yahoo.com
Eau Claire,WI -- Heart Centered Family Farm Isaiah Grinder Located between Sand Creek & Ridgeland, North of Eau Claire,WI 715-869-8809 or 715-864-0050 heartcenteredfamilyfarm@yahoo.com
Seattle Area: Rick Mayfield, Renton, Washington
425-228-8537
rfmayfield@comcast.net
Whidbey Island, Washington -- Island Apiaries - Dave Neel
360-678-8388/ cell 360-632-2776 david@islandapiaries.com
CANADA
Two Bees Apiary, North Vancouver, Lianne & Trevor Shyry twobeesapiary@shaw.ca 778-237-8711 http://www.twobeesapiary.com Two Bees Apiary can ship through Canada.
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Our Combo Screened Bottom Boards come weatherproofed 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.
We made a reducer to fit our Combo Screen Bottom Board.
If you have not seen the new stronger joints on the hives that Shastina Millworks are using, take a second to watch this YouTube movie http://youtu.be/Jla7z9aehkQ. We were so impressed, we bought 50 of these boards, assembled them by gluing and stapling and then boiling them in a vat of paraffin and tree rosin to weatherproof them.
These 10 frame hive bodies are ready for year of use with no need for painting or maintenance. The finish darkens with age, but continues to stand up to sun and rain. They can not be painted as the finish penetrates the wood.
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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 ApistanŽ 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 ApistanŽ 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.
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