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I too installed 6 new packeages with queens this year. One thing I noticed was that the queens were really tiny. The queens I'm used to from last year are a lot longer and fatter. 4 of my hives...

no short and skinny maybe and 1/8 inch long and narrow and white.

I checked the bees today after 2 weeks and when I took the cover off the empty hive top feeder I noticed there were really small worms crawling in it. They were about 1/8 long about as big around as...

Thanks for the reply I think I will add all deeps to all but 2 that way I can see how fast they build up in each and where they place the brood. I have to do something soon I think they are needing...

Thats what I'm getting from my bee buddies. I would like to get the deeps drawn out and feed to get them ahead, and also have the supers ready for the sourwood flow in july. I dont know if they...

I have 10 total hives for now and would like to carry them through the winter in double deeps, for uniformity. I have had 6 of these, from packages that i have fed sugar water, for about 5 weeks. I...

Got the excluder on it now for the new split. Thought I would take another split with capped brood and the queen cells and combine all the splits to make one good hive. Then I will find the queen...

I would like to take the old queen out and start some queen cells like melvin disselkoen has discribed to put in a nuc to start some queens in these hives. I checked for the queen in each of the...

I checked the hive and it is busting with bees. I realize that supeceedure cells dont have to be on the upper part of the frame, but each of the swarm cells were on the bottom of the frames. I have...

update on hive. Checked hives today and queen cells are still there no brood no eggs no queen and bees are not happy. Got another split I did on 4/14 no eggs only two of 3 qc in hive. Now I'm...

Thank you Throrope. There were a total of three swarm cells in different levels, 2 on the bottom of top frames and one on botton of bottom frame. The one to itself was damaged so it was scrapped...

Yesterday I did a complete hive breakdown and in the process i found 2 swarm cells. looked like fangs hangin off the bottom of the frame. So here is what I did. Cleaned brood comb from between and...

thank you for the link that is going to make my life a lot easier bending the tops. I checked out the tops today and I cant smell any pint fumes so I'm going to give it a shot and see what happens....

I am in the process of building hives and have a question. Though I am not haveing a hard time with the wood work I am having a terrible time with the tin tops so I decided to paint the tops with...

I just came from the bee yard and have a few questions. Heres what I found. I have 5 10 frame hives and one nuce in the bee/chicken fence. Four of the hives looked really good, busting over with...

Thank you I assume the smell would indicate fermentation?

I have 6 hives one of which is a 5 frame double stack nuc box. 2 weeks ago I gave sugar water to all the hives. all but one went through it fast the one that didn't take is a swarm I caught in my...

I walked around my hives today before I went to work and smelled a yeast like odor. I thought it was the chicken coop, but realized it was the bees. My mentor had a hive that was infested with hive...

This is my first year with bees and have brought my total to 6 hives. Today I went out to my bee yard and watched a tornado of bees flying around in front of each of the hives. I went in the hive...

I would consider beekeeping 101 to be a guide of what to do not how to do it. I feel the quick access to the information will be invaluable for folks that know what needs to be done but don't know...

do yal think this is something the moderators would consider. I don't think this is anything different than the other subsections. only difference would be the access to tutorials from people that...

I won't have access to the class til winter with the beek club. Missed it this year, got a late start with the bees. I have a lot of mentors that I mooch information off of but would like to be...

I am a fairly new beek 6 hive so far this year. I have read several books, but am more of a visual learner. From the forum I have gained consideral theory about processes that would acomplish my...

My goal is to produce several hives, as with anything I do as a hobby it never ends up small in the end. Honey will just be a by product of having bees making nucs, raising queens, pollination,...

Thank you honey shack that was very informative. I had all three of the queen cells that you discrided. I first cells were swarm and supsedure before the first split. the second split (17) were a...