my first thoughts

i have spent this year showing a group of new beekeepers how i keep my bees. i might as well explain my ideas firstly i use Tim Rowe's rose hive or commonly called the osb (one size box), i also do not use a queen excluder. I also don't believe in marking the queen or clipping her wings. Drones are far to important to use them as some form of varroa treatment so i encourage the bees to have the number of drones they need.