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As said, it crystalizes fast in the frames so you need to extract it within a few weeks. I usually schedule extracting 5-6 weeks from they start flowering.

Also make sure you keep the honey warm...

All mine are made of treated 2"x4".
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I usually put 2 hives on each but can optionally put 3, or use the...

By checking in on them you will get experince and learn what you see. I did that a lot the first year of queen breeding, now I mainly leave them alone just because I kind of know what is going on...

I would guess that there aren't enough bees to keep a larger area of brood warm.

I would have kept them confined during the 24 hour starting period unless you move the original hive and place the starter there.

As the others have pointed out, newspaper isn't needed in this case and it is better to create you starter an 1-2 hours before grafting instead of days before. Cageing etc. aren't needed, just don't...

18-22 kg (40-50 lb) dry sugar in 60% solution is fed mid September. Latitude 56º, southern Sweden. It seems as the further north here the less feed you need to give them, probably because they have a...

I depends on what you want with your beekeeping.


I agree, as soon as the flow starts they will build queen cells for swarming. And by using this method you can easily split the old hive into 3-8...

I would keep the frames from the top and bottom box as top and bottom in the same order, and then sqeeze in the middle box frames among them. Brood frames from the middle box should be sqeezed in...

Look for eggs. If you don't know how they look, make the seller point them out to you.
Look at brood pattern. It should be even with very few holes.
Look at number of frames covered in bees. But...

I wouldn't because there is always a risk for the new queen. Just put the frames from the nuc in a second box over newspaper, that almost always works without problems. But if it takes another month,...

Just be careful if you have a flow during the days after capping until you remove the cells because with this configuration the bees will build wax and honey around them which usually kill the...

Harvesting replacement queens or having the nucs build the replacement queens is quite a big difference. When the nucs build the queen themself you need to make them strong enough to be able to do...

I use a 5-day scheme and usually start on the 5:th in the month (in my climate it is June).
5:th graft
10:th they are capped left in the finisher, graft again, new starter, same finisher
15:th...

Are you sure it isn't the weather that limits mating? I sometimes have cold and rainy weather for several weeks during the mating window which causes problems.

20 kg sugar made into syrup I would guess.

What Finman describes is also common practice here, quite small space in the winter and insulated boxes. Next winter I might try a single medium box.

It don't think it is more difficult to...

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I think it is that the pH in the stomach in infants is not low enough, and in that environment some specific bacteria can grow. It is probably safe already when they are a few months old, but to be...

The plastic can also be folded back just a little bit to either make an opening to a box feeder or a top entrance without exposing the top frames to burr comb buiding.

>>hopefully, the farmers would grow crops here that
>>would be more useful sources of nectar and pollen

Exactly. Where I live, we can't grow sugar cane, but rapeseed and sugar beets are competing...

A lot of cane sugar is grown in developing/third world countries. By using cane sugar you are forcing our farmers to grow something more useful to our bees than sugar beets.