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The swarm was a little bigger than a football. Is that big enough for them to make it?

I just caught a swarm on a low branch near my bee yard. I have them in an empty deep and have the entrance blocked...til I know what to do next. There are a couple of empty frames with old wax...

I am thinking of buying some Russian bees. I know they winter well in colder states than North Florida but wonder if they will do well in erratically mild winters like we have here in Lamont, FL. ...

Thanks, Charlie B - good to know!

Thanks, BeeGhost. A picture is worth, etc. : )

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How do you use the monofiliment line? Is it a criss cross from corner to corner of an empty wooden frame? Is the need for stability mainly for when you take the frames out of the...

Mine too. I'm very excited, since I've always gone with foundation in the past. This is beautiful new wax.

Yes, I see that. I had two frames with foundation in the center and the rest were just the wooden frames with the plastic foundation taken out. I did nothing as far as guides were concerned for those...

I checked my "experimental hive" yesterday, after putting a medium super with some foundationless frames on it several weeks ago. Hooray! Lots of beautiful white comb the way the bees like it! And...

Had another swarm from my bee yard today. I was making a split on another hive when the swarm took off into a neighboring tree. I had swarm traps everywhere with lemon grass oil, but could not...

Thanks, guys. I will forge ahead bravely! : )

I am trying to find a way to use foundationless frames, since I have plenty of them and very few extra frames with foundation. The hive as it stands now consists of a deep and a medium brood box...

I use frames with foundation but wonder, when I add honey supers, if I can add foundationless frames to the hive? Good or bad idea?


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"...for breath is sweeter taken even as the last...

Walked out to the bee yard this morning to do a thorough check of my four hives. I turned off the electric fence, got my equipment together and donned my bee suit. While I was doing that, hive #1...

Hmmm - getting back to the lemon grass oil - I have a dozen or so lemon grass plants growing in my beeyard. This is their first winter and all have died back though I believe they will come back in...

I have extra empty mediums and lots of empty medium frames without foundation. Michael Bush mentions eight frame medium boxes with medium frames in them...is that with foundation and with drawn...

Here is a photo - any suggestions?652

I'll try to take a photo tomorrow and hopefully figure out how to post it. Thanks!

One of my hives has a lot of "dirt" of some kind on the doorstep...none of the other hives have this problem. I am worried there is a problem but not sure what it is. Any insight? Thanks for the...

Adding to my earlier reply, I sell mine for $8/lb and I checked with the roadside market a mile or two up the highway and they are selling honey at $9/lb. I sold all mine by word of mouth, and I...

I sold my last jar of honey this morning! I only had about 8 gallons which I bottled in both 1 and 2 lb plastic jars with flip lids, and 2.5 lb glass jars. My price was $8/lb. Sold every last one...

Thanks for the advice. I have no idea if there was any disease (how do I tell ?) It seems they were okay and then about 6 weeks later they were infested with wax moths. The other hives sitting...

I recently had to dismantle some hives due to wax moth damage. I scraped the frames clean and soaked them for several days in clorox and then hung them out to dry in the open air for several weeks. ...

Hmmm - another mystery...after taking psisk's advice and putting a frame of honey and two frames of brood and nurse bees...I left it there for a couple of weeks. I checked it the other day and the...

Saturday, August 27th, 2011 - surprised at losing a swarm from my bee yard this late in the season. I guess they know when it's time to leave.