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My one Langstroth has been going nuts lately! There were so many bees that the entire bottom board entrance was a traffic jam and any other entrance was the same.

I did an inspection and in the...

I will do, thank you!

I'm curious all of what there is to do out there. I have two rooms in my house full of equipment for fun including climbing gear, mountain biking, wakeboarding, surfing,...

I read an article that listed the Santa Cruz area as one of the highest densities for backyard bees...so I'm guessing it's safe to say that it's legal. I'd like to see if I couldn't find someone in...

So you get all the bees, I'd suggest removing the small nails that hold the screen on instead of going the traditional method of removing the sugar syrup. This will allow you to get every last bee...

Ha ha, I think everywhere in the country is the polar opposite to Utah. I love the lifestyle here as an avid snowboarder, mtn biker, rock climber but the people are incredibly weird here. I do hear...

I accepted a job in San Jose this week that will move me from Salt Lake City to the San Jose area, possibly Santa Cruz.

I'm curious if there are any special beekeeping laws down there.

Here in...

May I ask where you ordered the queen from? I've been frantically looking for a bred queen with no luck and need one ASAP as well as you did.

You would be correct and this is the reason I didn't try to split it or sacrifice another hive for it. However, if I could find a bred queen, that would be a different story!

I did think of that, very creative thinking. However I have foundation in my langstroths and it would be near impossible to cut out what I'd need without killing everything. I've already combined the...

I have shaggy snowboard/surfer hair and don't necessarily notice my bees attacking me, but if they do get near my head they usually get trapped by the hair...this makes them angry and I too have...

I have a queenless hive and don't have any local sources to purchase one or strong enough hives to pull brood from. (early in the season)

If you have an extra queen, raise queens, or know of any...

My top bar hives aren't nearly this healthy, per this post's existence, and this is my first year with Langs...so I couldn't really tell you. I do know we have very high, early, pollen production but...

Well said Javin. I've always been intimidated to split my hives because of how "complex" people seem to make it. My Langstroths are doing incredibly well this year and I plan to split each hive. I'm...

I'll look them up. Thank you!

I did not as I am still new to this site and do not get any bee journals. I will see what I can find though. Thank you.

I was unaware of the local community. I'll add them to my facebook for future needs.

In moving the bees I did a very close inspection and swept out all the dead bees from the winter out of the bottom of the hive...I was lucky enough to find the queen dead in with the bees...I also...

I actually finished doing just this. I called all our local shops and none did any preseason queen orders so decided to combine them. I used my follower board with some newspaper at the bottom where...

Looks like their minimum order is 25...sadly I only have a use for 3...at most.

The hive is very weak from the winter. This is one of my 2 top bar hives and there is maybe only 3 frames of bees left, so it wasn't very hard to decipher there is no queen. I found about a dozen...

One of my hives has gone queenless. Being so early in the season I doubt they have a chance of raising a new one, and if they did, there won't be any drones for her to breed with for another month or...

If the bees are all dead I'd simply take the hive apart and take out as many dead bees as you see laying around. If they froze you'll have a lot of them stuck inside the comb. The new bees will clean...

I have several strong hives, most going into their 3rd year, others their 2nd, that I'm wanting to split.

I did an inspection of each hive yesterday and the numbers are incredibly strong. The...

My last question would be: Is it too early to do the split? I live in Salt Lake City. The daily highs have been in the 60s and are expected to get much warmer this week into the 70s...but we'll most...

Are you saying the queen will resort back to the other hive? This is why I suggested caging her. Also, I have a friend who wants my TBH as I'm going Langstroth only. What if he took the hive at the...