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Funny that you experienced bee-death with screening them. I made 3 nucs (2 with queen cells, 1 with a mated queen) and screened them for 4 days (one nuc) 2 days (the other) and 1 day (the third). All...

I put together a nuc with a new laying queen + 2 frames of capped brood + 1 frame of nectar/pollen in the same
yard as the mother hive. I screened them and I am feeding them through a hole in the...

Thank you for the reply. I could modify my current screen bottom boards to insert and pull the trap under them. If I used the west beetle trap this way, I would take off the black cover since the...

Sorry about that. I found out that both traps appear in Kelley's bees: https://kelleybees.com/Products/
west hive beetle trap 56-S for 16$
freeman beetle trap 54-T for 35$
The design is similar,...

I posted this messages into the Diseases and pests section, but did not get any response.

Do you have an opinion about which SHB trap works better:...

Do you have an opinion about which SHB trap works better: https://kelleybees.com/Products/Detail/?id=3336333733383337&grouped=1 or
http://www.gabees.com/store/product_info.php?products_id=366 ?
I...

We have a terrible season with SHB in Atlanta. I lost 2 nucs and 2 captured swarms due to SHB slime, all within 2-3 weeks from establishment. In the past I used a hive top feeder in the bottom of the...

A couple of weeks ago I had a weak 5-frame nuc abscond. When I opened it up, I saw a layer of SHB larvae in the solid bottom board: they could not get out because of a robber screen. I also saw...

A week ago, I started treating my hives with the first (of three) doses of HopGuard. Prior to the treatment, there were plenty of SHB in the hives: 90s, humid weather in Atlanta, you get the picture....

I am looking for a 9-frame Maxant 3100P power extractor. If you have one available, please send me a message: stavros@math.gatech.edu
Thanks a lot,
Stavros

A word of caution about these robber screens. I had one in a nuc for 3 days now and noticed that very rarely would a bee go out, and did not see a bee ever come in. After 3 days I decided to pull...

Thank you for your responses. From what I gather, I can leave the robber screen on, and watch the bees go in/out one by one. When the nucs really pick up, then I will see a traffic-jam at the...

Thank you for your suggestions. I made the screen myself following the picture, and the screen allows 1/4x1/4 entrance for one bee to go in or out. I am not using boardman feeders: I have a mason jar...

Last week I made two nucs, which within a day got robbed from my other stronger hives (they each lost a full deep frame of capped honey within a day even though I reduced entrance to 1/2 inch). I...

Thank you for the suggestion. Actually, I will be getting two queens and wanted to make 2 new nucs and leave the old queen in the original hive. I wanted to split one deep into two nucs (making sure...

I have a hive with 2 deeps and 1 super that I want to make splits from. I have drawn comb, frames with pollen, frames with honey, frames with capped brood and will be getting a laying queen on...

Not capped in Decatur GA. They are slow capping this year. Last year this time I did my second extraction.
Stavros

A neighbor has a feral hive for a couple of months on a rail-tie fence at the end of a hill. The fence is made of long rail logs along the fence and then some rail logs cut across a section. One of...

I have kept bees in the last 5 years, a variety of them: italian, russian, mutts, swarms, etc. I've noticed that some bees are strong honey-gatherers, and I've also noticed some survivor russian...

I am looking for a used 6 frame radial extractor--preferably electric, but certainly radial. If you have one for sale, please send me a message: stavros@math.gatech.edu
Thank you very much,
Stavros

I looked into the brood nest of a very strong hive today (10 deep frames of capped brood, another 10 frames of brood and nectar and a super of nectar) and noticed some bees that had somewhat shredded...

Thanks for your replies. I found an easy solution: smoke the queen down to the bottom deep and place a queen excluder between the two deeps. The top deep has a little bit of brood, but it will hatch...

Problem is:these are frames of deeps, and do not fit on my honey supers. They no longer have any wax moth damage, just large drone cells. I do not use queen excluders. So, if I leave them in the...

I have several deep frames that a few years ago were ruined by wax moths. I cut sections of the comb (at least half of it) from the frames and gave them back to the bees to clean them up. They did,...

I had a negative experience with BeeBabys that I would like to report. I placed an order in mid February, which I finally received a month later after 4 emails, 3 phone messages and very little...