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they are likely orienting, and will do so each day

I watched one come in a few days ago, and it was amazing. It looked like the box was acting as a vacuum cleaner....a huge cloud of bees condensing into a hole 1/2" x 2". Bees afford me the luxury...

DEET works decently well when applied to clothing. The more concentrated stuff works better, and takes care of chiggers, too. Some folk use permethrin the same way. Both are used on the person,...

No advice, I lack experience. But, I do have a question: do you think that the 'weaker' hive is in danger of not building up enough prior to winter, or are you just trying to equalize the two? My...

Thanks for posting that. There is another video that says it shows a swarm in progress; the activity is quite different. Notably, lots more bees and therefore a much larger cloud. ...

My bees ignored it this year. There were many other sources available.

I have a small group of Bluejays that comes in every day or so. Even though we also have a few types of flycatching birds, none seem to be interested in the bees.

Better put, the swarm chose me.

I set up a 5-frame nuc box in the back yard a few weeks ago, baited with LGO, thinking that if my hives swarmed I would have a chance to catch them. A few weeks...

June 14, 2013 Springfield Ohio ZIP 45504 Sunny day in 70's after strong storms previous day. Caught a swarm, likely feral.

I hadn't heard of that. Thanks. For a while, they would mob the board but would always go back in at night. The constant mob didn't worry me at first but when it kept on and on, well, the human...

I am seeing what I think to be odd behavior in my hives, and I am trying to understand it. I am sure that it makes sense to the bees.

A large number of bees (1-200) spend all daylight hours on the...

For me, grouchy is relative and not a specific set of behaviors. For the first 6 weeks, no matter what I did during inspections the bees would move out of the way or fly off. Then, last week, they...

Rob-

I am a new beek up the road from you in Springfield near US 68 and 40. While I haven't seen bearding (hanging masses of bees) on my landing boards, I have seen that there are quite a few...

Mylar would work well, but tends to tear easily when poked with wooden corners and put under stress. Really, anything that can be reasonably sealed should work well; taped plastic sheeting cobbled...

New beek here, so my experience shouldn't be taken as fact or applied to all hives.

I am fortunate enough to have a video recorder that I sometimes use when doing an inspection. I do this as a...

Don't use an ozone generator, if for no other reason than the fact you will need to figure out how to keep the frames in a closed container while connecting to a power cord. Beyond that, ozone will...

Welcome! We did it the other way around. Chickens first, then bees two years later.

I agree that she should be hydrated. But, not all queens come in cages with candy plugs. So, perhaps a dilute syrup would be best if there is no candy plug.

I'm very new, so take this with a grain of salt. It sounds like the larvae might have been chilled and died, and they are being cleaned out. I don't think that a disease like foulbrood is likely to...

I just put on a super of medium foundationless frames in one hive, with wax-coated popsicle sticks in the top bar and fishing line across the frame, and they've started to draw. It is too early to...

That might work. Another way would be to use a slightly more dilute mix, like 4:5 sugar:water. If the issue you mention is due to evaporation of the water, then this will only forestall the...

Thanks, Richard. I'll also add to your excellent post that in any purported or actual scientific writing, the words "could" and "may" are not the same as "does" and "will." If the last two words,...

Is it also necessary to provide shade for the hive if there is no shade available?

I installed my hives at the end of April, and for a month they barely touched the syrup I provided. I think it was because we were in the middle of a flow, and the available resources were more than...