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I took out the Apivar strip off and waited 9 days before I installed the honey supers not quite what the what the manufacture suggested. My thought is it would take a few days for the bees to start...

Any input on Apivar? Any thoughts good bad or indifferent. I just took the strips out of my hives, how long should I wait until I put on the honey supers. how long will the mites stay off?

Does any body know the weight of an empty hive such as frames brrod box and bottem borad.

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I’m considering use wax moth crystals to keep out moth larva out of my brood boxes and honey supers, if I could get some feedback that would be great. I have brood boxes that I didn’t extract the...

Sweedebee,
Thanks for the reply. But my real question is how long can I let my honey supers sit in the shop before I extract the honey. is two weeks to long... I dont have an extractor at this...

Sweedebee,

Hello,
I have a couple of question that someone on this board may be able to help me with. I not going to get an extractor to extract my honey for two more weeks, and we have a nectar flow coming...

I have a couple of question on matting nuc’s. I raised my first queen cell’s (9) and I’m getting ready to put them in matting nuc’s. I plan on installing 1 frame of brood and one frame of empty...

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In the next couple of days I’m getting some queens, and I planned on doing some splits. I have the number of frames for brood, Honey and Pollen that I want to use. My questions are how...

Can someone explain to me when and how to use a queen cell protector
Thanks
Jay T

I was in my hives today and found a lot of drone cells, it seems very early in the year for so many drones. Any thoughts as to why so many drones? My hives also have a lot of brood not just drones...

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thanks forthe input...

I think I may have just made a mistake. I have a hive that died off due to tracheal mites, and there was honey left in the comb. I froze the comb and honey for a couple of days and then put the...

Hey has anybody tried my suggestion????

Good question you can take the string and make sure the veil is under the string and just simple wrap it around your neck and tie a knot I prefer a bow tie knot. Make sure the entire veil is under...

I used paper plates for molds; they came out flat and round just like the paper plate. When the candy got hard I took the candy out of the paper plates. I than put the flat rounds between the...

Looking for feedback,
Today I got into my hives I have 6. My hives are two deep brood boxes, two of the hives had bees in the top brood box and 4 of the hives had the bee’s mainly in the bottom...

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Make Pollen patties out by using mentiond products

Thanks for asking for clarification

Jay T

Ken,
I use staples and tight a bond 3 can’t go wrong when you have a full brood Frame full of honey and pollen

I recently purchased 40 lbs of Bee Pro Pollen substitute. I wanted to make patties out of the pollen and need a recipe. I recently made Pollen patties out of Mega Bee and the recipe was 1 cup of...

Thanks for the input, I have seen the fat bee's you tube I will review aagin.

Thanks
Jay T

Im very interested in making my own pollen substatue also.

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Jay
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Can anyone give some feedback on Mann Lakes COMPLETE QUEEN REARING KIT. I want to raise some queens and would like some feedback from anyone that has used this product. One question...

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Help me get on the same page as you guys, I brew homemade beer from full grain in five gallon batches. I usually end up with about 1.5 quarts of sludge with very little water. The question I...