Hello all. I lost my two hives this past November to mites. I cleaned out the hives and froze the frames. I have two new packages comming in three weeks. I am planning on putting the new bees in the...
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Hello all. I lost my two hives this past November to mites. I cleaned out the hives and froze the frames. I have two new packages comming in three weeks. I am planning on putting the new bees in the...
Do you forsee an issue re-using the frames if I go with a more traditional treatment?
I would like to thank everyone who posted with their thoughts of what had happened here. Upon further inspection of my bottom boards the V-mite has done these hives in. Mites were visible everywhere...
Good morning all. three weeks ago I discovered my two hives located 5 feet aprt were dead. I took video of both and am looking for opions as to why they died. Any help you could give would be greatly...
This past weekend we checked our hives and found both dead. Both hives had plenty of honey stores in fact one had an entire medium super untouched. As a rule of thumb is the honey safe?
some, nothing, some just foundation and 1-2 partially capped
Hello all, my first post here. I am a new bee keeper in Northeren New jersey and I have a question pertaining to how much honey to leave in the hive for the winter. I have a hive using medium super,...