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as a semi retired commercial beekeeper and previous bee inspector the last thing I would ever do would be to split the brood nest. as usual some bees will survive regardless of what the beekeeper...

we have bought them at lowes. they go inside plastic tubing to keep it from crushing when the fitting is tightened. home depot also has them. try mfg watts # a-8 96760-pt 1/4 inch (4864306735)

we used to operate over 600 hives in this manner but they all went south for the winter. they will produce a lot of honey but you have to watch them close as there will not be much surplus honey in...

most cattle tags have a built in insecticide. look in a forestry catalog and get numbered alum tags. put on the bottom board as boxes get changed.

have you ever treated for mites?

this used to be very common in upstate new york. mostly pieces of carpet cut up. (fuzzy side up)

sorry- the bees will not repair a damaged queen cell.

any old brood comb will attract wax moths. using a comb that has only had honey will reduce the attraction for moths. any chemical will also repel the bees. good luck

never thought I would agree with acebird but the bees know what to do. any beekeeper that knows more than his bees is going to learn the hard way.

we use roundup with no problems. works good for us but we dont hug trees.

just for info if you try to put 30# sugar and 5 gal water in a 5 gal pail you will have 2 gal on the floor. the 3 gal of water and 30# of sugar will fill the pail.

in a 5 gal pail there is over 24# water and 30 # sugar. I cant see how this is a 3-1 ratio. must be new math.

water weighs over 8 lb per gal so this is close to a 1-1 ratio. not metric

ya dont need heat or a double tank. get 5 5gal pails. put in 3 gal water and add 30# sugar in each. use a paint stir with a electric drill. stir and let sit until it becomes clear.

this is nothing new but if I wanted a hive to swarm this would work great.

we run 8 frames in 10 frame supers in honey supers. more honey will extract from 8 frames vs 10. however the hive will not produce more or less honey. the thicker combs simply hold more honey.

call the bee inspector in the area your looking to go. otherwise get ahold of the local bee club. you have to ask local people that know bees.

walter kelly had this system back in the 70's. never was very popular because of robbing problems that it caused.

If conventional cell size did not work there would be no bees in the us. better to be concerned with good beekeeping practices.

gus
carniolan bees are great bees. just do good basic beekeepng and skip the checkerboarding. a new queen will not swarm so why screw up the hive. good luck

mark
last last winter I told ya to pick up the small green federal dot book and know what page refers to beekeepers. would have saved ya 40 minutes of trooper education. lol

not sure. wish it didnt cost so much. (about 1/3 of a sc trip)

mark
the week before the nys meeting I talked to hack at the pa meeting. he had lost one third and was still losing hives. he said some guys out west had simular problems. we are a little late...

when you say the worms are small the first thing I think of is shb. wax worms are fairly large. If you have wax worms there will be a fair amount of web on the comb. no web with shb.

to make money every purchase has to pay for itself. a uncapper needs a second person to work well. then ya need a bigger extractor. anything under 200 hives can be done with a vibrating knife or...