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I don't have an answer for you, but i am having a similar experience. My hives are still raising brood like crazy, but have not really built any new comb in two weeks. I keep finding dead drones in...

I am a first year beek, and had this very same thing happen to me this year. I was not fully prepared because everything I had read always talked about the candy plug. Luckily, I had been...

Thank you everyone for your advice. I took a breath, calmed down, and went back out to further scrutinize. As painful for me as it was, I even scraped some caps from a few cells that looked like...

I installed two packages into tbh's I built this winter. One hive has had no problems with cross-combing but the other seemed to want to do it quite often. They would place the comb on the edge of...

I am new beekeeper this year. My bees have been hived a little less than a month. When I performed my weekly inspection today I got a little freaked out. The color of the brood comb has changed...

I am going to try out the hair clip method because it has the easiest supplies for me to get and I believe it will fit my type of top bar the easiest. Here's hoping it works.

I am a new beek with two top bar hives that were hived with bees a little over a week ago. Last Friday I performed my first major inspection. Hive 2 was great by Hive1 one had quite a bit of cross...

I am admitedly not a great arborist, but I will do some searching around to see what I can recognize. I live in an old neighborhood, so there are many mature trees hanging around. I do know that we...

While doing my first extensive inpection of my hives today, i noticed that my bees had begun bringing in quite a bit of pollen. There were the usual hues of yellow and orange that I would expect,...

I don't know if the queen got outside, but they have all gone in for the night now. The hives seem to be back to their happy level of low humming. I could sit with my ear near the entrance all...

I have two top bar hives that I put packaged bees in last Saturday. Today during my first extensive hive inspection the bees began to beard on the fronts of the hives. Now, a half hour later, they...

All right, I have spoken with the supply store about how long the package will be in transit. I am ready with the oil, and I have the confidence now to try a direct release. Three more weeks and...

I didn't think about the new hive aspect of things. Last month at the bee club they were talking about swarm traps and using essential oils to entice the bees to take up residence. Would lacing the...

I am a first year beek and have yet to actually get any bees.
the only negativity I have received so far was from the local bee supply store. I was told I was not smart for considering tbh (I had...

I am a first year beekeeper. I do not know anyone else with TBH in my area, so I am doing my best to get ready from books and the internet. I will be getting my package bees in less than a month. ...