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Been having the same challange. Would love to find a fairly successful way to have the girls who did all the work rob it back for themselves.

Tried heaflaw's recommendation with the same thought...

Try here:

http://www.angelfire.com/nb/movba/ohiolabellaw.html

BTW, congrats on getting honey from your new hives! Extracting our this coming weekend. Can't wait.

Cheers

August in NE Ohio usually sees quite a slow-down for us in nectar flow (IMO). Though, with the cooler wetter weather we've been seeing lately, I'm hoping the clover holds on just a tad longer. I...

Can't help ya. I'm going home and hugging my wife! Best fishin' buddy in the world!

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Cheers!

Hi Pokerman,

Looks like you're in my neck of the woods. We stopped using Checkmite about three or four years ago. Never was very comfortable with it or anything that requires that you DO NOT...

Ohh! Ohh! Mysterious Island? Captain Nemo, giant crabs, giant chiken-bird-thingie, giant HONEYBEES?

- Just about any old Godzilla/Gamara/"B" '50s sci-fi movie. Dad & I would lay on the...

Durandal,

Like most of the folks have already said, they're not SHB. Though we're at the other end of the state from you, I've seen these little guys off and on in our hives for quite some time -...

I was wondering about that...gonna be doing some steelheading in Erie on Monday. Nuts.

Thanks Rick. That's what the Queen Right folks said too - Don't worry much now but be prepared in the spring.

We don't keep frames full of anything around outside the hives but I am struggling...

Just south of us - about 40 min drive. Close enough.

Yep. Like I said, didn't get a real good look at the adults but I got the three larvae in a clear container. Been around enough waxworms to see there was something different about these guys. They...

Any folks from my area of the country finding SHB this year? I got a rude surprise when I found three larvae on my SBB insert last night. Thought I saw a little brown beetle scurry around when I...

IPM???

http://globalswarminghoneybees.blogspot.com/2007/10/jewelweed.html

We've been using it for four years - no Thymol, added. Doesn't totally eliminate the mites but appears to keep the population down enough so the girls don't get overwhelmed by them. At least, we...

Just went through the hive thoroughly yesterday. Was pleasantly surprised to find a single capped supercedure cell on one frame and two additional supercedure queens being raised.

Since I added...

Okay, checked the split hives yestderday and discovered that the new queen that I was constantly finding outside the hive a few weeks ago is now only producing drones.

It was getting late and we...

Her wings looked okay, though she appeared to be a hefty girl for an unmated queen. I'm guessing you're right and I kept interfering with the process. I dug into the hives last night and there were...

Okay, I haven't seen this one before. Three weeks ago, I did a simple split of one of my hives that was on the verge of swarming. Sealed queen cells on frames in both brood chambers. Split the...

Not getting something on the peroxide treatment. Are youpouring the peroxide into the melted wax whil eit's still hot? Do you keep applying peroxide until it doesn't faom anymore? How do you know...

Don't know if you know this or not...if you're going to Hobby Lobby, check out their web site first. Many weeks they have a special 40% off Internet coupon for any item in the store. Only one per...

03-31-08

Maple (silver, maybe?)

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We went into last winter with four colonies and came out of it with one weak one. One simple split in June and we have two strong colonies going into this winter. Fingers crossed. :)

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Jim,

Good article. Thanks. Your article, and a few others I've read, mention past CCD-like outbreaks that mysteriously appeared and then just as mysteriously disappeared. Are there any records...