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Might I suggest that WT Kelley create a complete un-assembled package with the appropriate sized top, side and bottom bars for narrow frame beekeeping. Also since most commercial beekeepers are not...

I made a large purchase of supplies to build deep narrow brood frames from W. T. Kelley. First of all the minimum order for grooved bottom bars is 100 pieces so I ordered enough frame top and end...

You could cull the entire box as you say but you should get straighter drawn comb if you alternate the new frames with the older ones. Whenever I put a frame into service, I mark the date on the top...

I am in the High Desert of SoCal. We also get regular 110*+ days. I run two deeps for the broodnest, a solid bottom board with a slatted rack and have the entrance reduced to about 3" year-round. In...

I am in for about $4K since 2009 learning beekeeping. Don't get me wrong, I love it! It just does not seem to be easy in my climate and I am in AHB territory so I always purchase packages from up...

My role model for hive set up is Jerry Hayes for the "Queen Excluder or Honey Excluder?" and Michael Bush for the narrow frame beekeeping technique and the bees for just doing what they have to do to...

I believe success is subjective to a recipe of each of these things.
I am sticking with this interpretation.



Except that the ground is not level everywhere you set your chair down.

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I was thinking of something else. Your processing area should be bee resistant. If the bees find your honey they will rob you out without any conscious.

The art is so subjective but I agree with the thought process. I believe the specific location of the hive is important as well. Too much summer sun or winter wind direction can also cause stress and...

Yes, that'll work. The comb is built at an angle so the thin nectar stays in until cured. You can either lay it flat or on the top bar of the frame. Though the area you are working in will have to be...

I've heard that as a rule of thumb a hive needs three square inches of entrance space. A 3/4" hole would give you about about a half of a square inch opening. I am thinking that on a round opening,...

The upper entrance lets the foraging bees have direct access to either the brood or store areas without having to travel through the brood boxes.
I have modeled my hive set up based on Jerry Hayes'...

Thanks for the replies. I think that I will leave some out in the sun 20' or so from my hives until the weather gets too cold for it to get pliable.

I was scraping some frames that had a lot of propolis on them and was wondering if the bees would reuse the scrapings if the frames were scraped over the hives instead of a collection box.

Getting stung does not equate to a mistake.
I am an amateur hobbyist in a different climate than you but here is my two cents.
I would put the hives back to the deep with one or two medium super...

Maybe you should build a robber screen or six.
http://www.beesource.com/forums/showthread.php?271644-How-to-make-and-use-a-robbing-screen-to-stop-hive-robbing-(video)
They are relatively easy. For...

Sounds like the Mann Lake extractor is a good choice. Does anyone make a small/hobbyist radial extractor, something that does three to five frames or so?

Excellent news! :applause: Hopefully they will be available in smaller quantities for hobbyists like me. Would it make sense for them to be available in multiples of twenty two? Or maybe that would...

Thank you for sharing your experience.

I do not run screened bottom boards. The hive in question is a single deep with a medium that they are drawing out but not really using and the bottom is very heavy with capped and uncapped stores....

I do have a five frame nuc box that I could set up as described, creating a split, but then would I still have the issue of high mite population in the new split, or not?

There are drone cells in...

Just a random thought... What if I put the queen in a hive body with foundation only and put her either on top or below the current brood box separated by an excluder?
The current set up is a single...

Why don't bees get DSV, deformed stinger virus :)

If I wanted to break the brood cycle of a hive in order to reduce their mite load, what is the proper technique? Do I just shake the bees into a foundation only hive body? And what do I do with the...

I inspected my hives yesterday and one of the weaker ones had noticeable mites in some of the drone brood where it pulled apart at the bottom of a frame. I am now noticing a couple of bees here and...