View Full Version : Beekeeping 101
- Experience with wintering in a cellar
- entrance feeder
- How long...
- I don't like plastic frames!
- Drone comb between frames
- Long hive pictures
- Package bee possible queen issue
- Ants bee GONE????
- Disadvantage of being from CT?
- Is this good or bad?
- Plastic verse Steel Extractor inner basket
- Should I build or buy?
- Placement of oil ?
- Help Me Figure Out What's Happening.
- Used frames
- Think I have a supercedure
- My bees come tomorrow morning and I feel SO UNPREPARED!
- Bee box in the super
- Lost hive,don't know why . . .
- Which is the best feeder?
- Need advice for installing new package
- Suggestion needed
- Image Posting
- My First Bees Got Here, the Good, the Bad and Should I Split one now?
- Help! Need Frames Fast! Any Suggestions?
- More Questions - About Frames
- swarms
- Question on Dadant hivetop feeder tray
- drawing comb question
- new nuk
- what type nails/brads/staples do you recommend using to assemble frames & hive boxes?
- Lethargic bees...going to die?
- Hivetop Feeders
- How to get a hive out of a tree
- Four 3lb packages a week ago, when will I see eggs?
- Rain
- So what are the odds?
- My Long Hive Construction Step-by-step
- Hive Stand Tilt?
- Timeline...?
- Hive stand Tilt?
- when do I..... (packages)
- first swarm caught today
- Honey Extractor Question
- Number of Med.Boxes for brood
- To Late for Installing a Nuc?
- Why not harvest honey in spring?
- Brood Chamber Equalization
- Bee repelent?
- New Hives and top Feeding rate
- Oh happy day !!!
- Bees fighting at a vacant hive
- Feral removal.
- Today I am a Beekeeper
- Screened Hive Stands
- Pile in empty Western ontop of deep
- Queen Cells, now what?
- Top Hive feeder inner cover placement?
- Treating foulbrood
- Need advice about my top bar hive.
- Apistan and honey supers
- Regressing Bees to Natural Size Cells
- Feeding bees
- Bait Hives
- Too early for a split?
- Last years honey with a new package of bees?
- How long in the package?
- New Package - Old Comb
- screened bottom boards
- dang! my hive swarmed!!
- first casualty of the new hive
- How long to feed
- New swarm
- Queens are out, now what?
- worried about the hived swarm
- Do I need to feed sugar syrup?
- Frame Question
- royal Jelly?
- How long can I keep a queen in a queen cage?
- Help! No queen!
- Galvanized Hardware Cloth
- Ventilation Holes
- more new bees
- dead frames
- Critical Mass
- New Hives - Inspection at 2 weeks
- couple of newbie questions
- new packages
- mites this time of year
- Queen loss in packages
- Juggling Drawn Comb and Foundation
- How much syrup
- crystalized honey
- swarm cells
- My wax melter
- Irregular Comb
- Queen cells in new hive
- Queen laying in incomplete comb?
- A queen without a kingdom...
- How long to wait for the queen to lay...
- I Suck at installing bee's
- Good News-------Bad News!
- 2 hives dead over night
- Was this a mistake?
- Back in the game with 2 KTBH hives
- First Swarm capture for me
- swarm question about queen
- best time to work hives?
- switching boxes around, confused!
- Queen flew off
- Do I have a problem?
- Do honey bees eat Marshmallows?
- Plastic Bag Feeding
- Where To Place Feeder
- 1 1/2 Week Old Split With New Queen???
- Does our foundation need wiring?
- Need emergency help fast
- old dark comb
- swarms
- Feeder Question
- Sugar Water
- new package bee problem help!
- Pollen patties/Queen questions
- All honey, no brood
- Old honey, New hive
- Wedge Top Frames
- how to combine 3 laying worker frames with a hive?
- Top Feeder comb buildup
- 2 queens in package ?
- Hived Swarm Question
- question about moving hive
- Drone laying issue
- interesting install
- Hope i did this right
- New to beekeeping/Trouble with a swarm
- Queen Marking
- Installing a Nuc
- How many hives ?
- one or two hives.....
- best use of full comb???
- attached comb
- Lost Queen - Newbie needs advice
- first hive inspection do i need smoke?
- My first queen hunt and requeen!!
- Why does a package go bad?
- new swarm
- You should have been there
- 1 or 2 deep hive bodies?
- Newbie questions b/c I am freaking out!
- When to inspect with bad weather
- Top Bar progress
- Nuther silly question
- When to do first inspection after hiving
- Foundation Question
- Now that I've done it
- Old frames with honey
- Listening to my hive
- Stung today
- TOUGH bees
- genetic diversity
- How can I reduce moisture in Hive during colder months
- Please identify this tree
- frames came apart
- curious to know the fate of laying workers
- 8 Year Old needs bee suit
- BeeMax Hive Top Feeder with comb
- Mass of Bees On My #2 Hive
- foundationless help needed
- water source
- Hive Has Swarmed Twice In Four Days
- What are these dark color cells?
- Entrance activity. Normal or not?
- pollen?
- all the gear, no idea
- Requeen, 2nd guessing myself!
- Installing a Package without a queen
- moved my hive hope i did it right!
- Supercedure cells at day 8... wow that was fast.
- Is this normal??
- Bees Late
- Adding second brood super + feeder
- Feeding off the top.
- Local supplier sold out of bees - any suggestions on where to order?
- old hives old honey
- I did a split now what
- New yellow comb
- oh no
- Location, location, location...
- Initiation warning for fellow newbs
- package bees building comb onto the queen box
- honey in metal cans?
- Do I need to elevate my hive?
- How precise with pouring wax do I need to be?
- Two Very Old Hives??
- Supercedure Queen
- New Keeper has three questions
- How many
- Drone frames
- do these frames look good
- Are these drones?
- 1st inspection- 2 questions
- Top Feeder/Inner cover
- Question about xentari bt
- odd sighting today
- When to split?
- Burr Comb
- Sad Swarm Story
- top mounted pollen collector and queen excluder
- Removing Paper Wasps Near Honey Bee Hive
- Tired of no honey for us
- Requeen failure, What now?
- first time thru box
- Hive Body Conundrum
- Open Forum Discussions
- Queen laying cycles?
- Hive top Vs. bucket feeders
- Struggling with the smoker..............
- How to place the entrance reducer? I need help!
- Replacing comb with foundation after Spliting.
- when to super
- new keeper has questions
- another newbie question
- Queen laying two eggs per cell
- Did I actually do a split ?
- Ima DumbBeekeeper
- Requeening
- Q: How to inspect 2-deep hive?
- New Package
- Inspection
- Abandoned Colonies
- Dead bee in queen cage
- Another rookie checking in!
- Now what do I do? SHB
- Reducer Question
- ants
- Weather
- not using a queen excluder
- What is wrong?
- Well it's official
- One hive stronger than other
- Inspection #2
- Happy discovery
- Does anybody know anyone with bees available to ship?
- Dead bees on screened bottom board
- 5 hives, three doing great, 2 I worry
- So I caught a swarm.. now what?
- Newbie with swarm questions
- stings one but not another?
- Do Bug Repellents Keep Bees Off
- Nuc creation