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For sure! I may be extracting the first round next month! The bees are packing it away and capping it!

I just made all my own two hive pallets this year. I used 5/8" plywood for the deck, 3/4" x 3/4" pine strips for the hive body rests and a 3" x 5/8" pine board that runs down the center and this is...

Wednesday, June 12, 10:00 AM - Called by a worker at the local park service in Livermore (94550) to a large swarm along a walking path. I checked it out and sure enough, about the size of a...

That is so cool that you get to see all this!! Wish I could!!

You need to walk away, pick up more hours at the other jobs that pay more and buy your own equipment and make arrangements for packages in the spring. You will be money and time ahead. But on that...

Take the advice of shaking out the LW hive, the bees will best be used in other hives than just dwindling away and dying out. The laying worker will also try to get into other hives but will soon be...

I only swell if I get zapped on the hand, and only sometimes. The first time I went gloveless 3 years ago I got zapped 6 times on each hand..........left hand didn't swell at all, right hand looked...

As long as they have ventilation and are not placed in direct sunlight, they will be fine, even with out the water.

I just did a removal late yesterday and left the hive in the back of my truck...

The only problem I have found with foundationless (and also with foundation) is after freezing them they are extremely brittle and usually crack across the top of the comb. As for structural...

Because some IPM systems involve removing drone comb that could be housing a mess load of Varroa mites.

Been very windy here the last week (20+ mph), enough wind it slid one of my lighter two hive pallets with single deeps about 6 inches on the trailer!! It also pushed the cover off just enough to...

Lauri,

I have a swarm queen I picked up a month ago that is very dark like the queen you have in that picture and that swarm has almost two deeps drawn out. She is an absolute laying machine....

Called for a swarm in Livermore, CA at 4:30 PM on 5/8/13. Called a buddy up that lived about a mile away from the location and gave him the swarm call. He said it was a nice swarm about 2' off the...

Beepro - Grafting is a learning experience. I am basically practicing to become better at it as I do like the method a lot. Like Michael said, basically your almost grafting royal jelly as the larva...

Grafted the last Sunday in April and checked them this Friday....only to find nothing! I think the problem was I flipped the larva this time around or they dried out as it was quite hot out. I...

Its a lesson learned for sure. You can catch a swarm in a 5 gallon bucket all day long, but they have to have ventilation, they can not only suffocate but they also generate a lot of heat. If you...

The surefire way to lock down a swarm is to put a frame of larva in with them from another hive.

I caught quite a few swarms last year and had probably 3 or 4 leave the next day and they didn't...

When I introduced my queen cells I made the nuc up of two frames of brood in all stages and 2 frames of food and an empty foundationless frame. All queens hatched and were accepted. The nucs were...

I have had good and bad with foundationless, the bad being comb drawn across the frames connecting up to three frames, easily ripped out though. I have enough drawn out frames now that I just stick a...

Im going to do a alcohol wash probably tomorrow to find out how things are looking as far as mites go, if I have a high count I plan on doing a weekly OAV treament for three consecutive weeks. How...

I vote for full sun as well. The only time I ever had a major issue with mites and also with hive beetles here in CA is with two hives I had in pretty much full shade all day. Both hives were strong...

The farmer where I am keeping my bees told me about some hives that were "abandoned" on a corner of his property, the owners hadn't been there in a couple years and he said I could have them. He took...

4/19/2013- Tracy, CA: Got called for a swarm about 1:00 PM. Showed up and the poor guy was having a garage sale when the 5# swarm decided to land in a close by pine tree about 7' up. I shook the...

Came out of almonds with 5 hives (one died out) and I am now up to 11 hives from splits and a swarm catch! I checked my grafted queens and they all hatched successfully and were getting mated as I...

4-12-13, Manteca, CA = Swarm call from the place I was supposed to set traps this year but didn't find time to do it! They ended up in the block wall where a swarm went in last year, but that hive...