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How big are your cups? I use 2" in diameter cups mounted on a 1" pipe. Not much room to slip down. If you have wider cups, you can use stiff mesh hardware cloth screen cut to the size of...

Buying all 10 frame boxes. I had to spend the following winter cutting them all down to 8's.

Good thinking on the skunks.

That looks great!

Chris,

In post #7 on this thread I created a materials list. The list along with the photo's are the "tutorial" I posted for instructions. I bought everything at Home Depot already sized to fit....

The shelf life of MAQS are only a couple of months so it's possible that being stored that long in the tub caused the paper to dissolve. It's anyone's guess on how effective your application will be...

My XL Mann Lake vented jacket was too big for me and I'm 5' 10", 190. I wound up getting a L and using the XL for mentoring.

My nucs and hives have been ant free ever since I took the time to build these stands.
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Here's a pic of Ollie's new honey supers. Now for some reason, he hasn't bragged about these!

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Can I borrow your honey house next weekend Ollie?

Just received my hat, thanks Chris and Jake! Ollie is extremely jealous

An uncapping roller from Mann Lake, worthless!

I've never seen anyone dump bees into a plastic bag. Why didn't you use a nuc or hive box?

There are many cities here in the Bay Area that have ordinances against beekeeping but that really doesn't stop anyone. Most municipalities don't care even if it's illegal as long as there are no...

I call those dark colored bees German. Here in SF, those darker bees are common in cutouts. I had a queen that looked exactly like that in a colony I removed from a PGE electrical box. One of the...

I would start another nuc with the old queen and leave the queen cell in the original nuc. For some reason, packages sometimes don't like the queen they were matched up with.

We get several every once in a while here in SF. No major infestations however.

I have one I'll sell you for a really good price!:D

I don't need a fancy bait box to catch swarms. I just use wax coated cardboard from Mann Lake.

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You have to understand that Ollie is not a normal person. He's obsessive/compulsive when it comes to anything that's free. His utter cheapness is his strenght. He once surrounded my SF apiary with...

Thanks Dad! :rolleyes:

We need a David to stand up to Ollie the Goliath, although he's resorted to buying packages this year. Maybe this is a good season to take him on!

I view them as good beekeepers who are lucky.

Every hive has mites. It's a matter of keeping the mite population at a managable level. MAQS every summer before August 15th kills enough mites to survive the winter with no brood break here in...

I call those German. I have several black bee hives like that. They were swarms though so who knows. Is there a such thing as a true bee breed anymore?