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The name is, more correctly, the "escape hole". The oval shape was designed to accept a Porter bee escape.

No one uses Porter bee escapes any more, so the term has fallen out of favor. At bee...

I use wired wax foundation with cross wires, exclusively. I don't see the issue you are having. If you can remove the foundation, straighten, and re-install, I have to wonder...

How did you fasten...

You all are looking to split strong colonies in the spring, and sell those splits as your nucs. That process takes too much of your bee resource when you have a small apiary. You split your strongest...

Sounds like Sac. Does the dead pupa appear to have a thin membraneous sac around it?

That's what I do sometimes. Turn the top brood box of the colony to be re-queened into the nuc. Has to have brood in all stages. Elevate over inner cover, escape hole closed, entrance to rear. Give a...

I did? Exactly what are "pre-varroa"losses?

Summarize? Lies, distortions, bogus bologna.

Just what am I supposed to say? Neonics scare the crap out of me? They do.

All this talk about me...all I did is reply to BBM who said all the bees in the US are dying from Neonics. He has it all...

Did you read the ABF article on same beekeeper?

Well there are dishonest people in all walks. I don't doubt what you say...

especially if his initials are RS from S C Apiaries

Charles Mraz here in Vermont invented the venom collector that is used by most. The bees land on the board, receive a shock, and sting. The stinger goes through a membrane and the venom is deposited...

It bothers me that there were no eggs beneath the cage, and then they jumped her. Maybe better if you located the cage over a bit of emerging brood...if you had any.

I never bother with LW...

Something useful to the beekeeping community??? Create a video?? Teach a class?? Write a book??

Why would I ever do such a thing?? :)

"Good wood on bad".

Yep, very common. I call it the 3 week supercedure syndrome. The colony has reached an imbalance in nurse bee population. By 3 weeks in, all the bees are old and there are no new bees hatching. A...

I assume he would keep stock in the north, or ask customers to buy back queens that performed well, and use them for breeders in the southern queen rearing operation.

Time to move the yard.

Now I'm done. Say what you will. Buy all the packages you want, I really don't care. But for those who are tired of replacing their dead bees every year with packages, listen up. You can raise better...

I don't see it that way, and as you say the point is to get the truth out. Start nucs on your main flow, whenever that is, use those local queens that are available at the height of the season when...

You're comparing packages to spring splits. I'm comparing packages to wintered nucs. My nucs need their second deep and have 7 frames of brood three weeks after our first 60 degree day and the first...

But if he saved those nucs to make nucs he could make probably 150 nucs. Then he could sell 134 nucs and keep 16 to make more the following year. Then you could have your cake and eat it too...

You're not listening Astro. You save some of your wintered nucs to make more nucs...5-10 to 1 depending on the year.

Don't be snide please. Teach those 300 beekeepers to raise their own bees and they will be calling you with messages of thanks. But they won't be handing you checks for packages anymore.

Yes, true. But have you ever considered holding on to some of your wintered nucleus colonies, and using them as brood factories to produce more nucleus colonies? Allow your production colonies to...

No doubt. But don't you understand that if your five relatively large clubs would put on a program to teach the people to raise their own nucleus colonies, we wouldn't be having this conversation.
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