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It does only bloom once per year and as a pure honey plant white clover is better. But crimson usually starts a little earlier and does produce a fine honey. Most of the people I know who plant it...

Dave,
I've never planted any in the spring so I really don't have any idea how it would do. But Crimson Clover is a cool season annual, so the summer months could be hard on it. We have planted a...

When I orginally thought of doing this I didn't want to add to my hive numbers. Brood would only be cut out if all the frames contained brood. And of course if there are weak hives with empty frames...

One thing I have thought of doing is rather than adding boxes to make room, take a sharp knife and a five gallon bucket, finding the worst looking combs, and simply cutting out the old comb and...

How long can a queen stay in the queen cage she is shipped in, without putting her in a queen banking nuc? Is five days too long?

I think we have a lot of good things blooming right now for pollen, but I don't think we've had a significant nectar flow yet, and I wonder if the bees will typically swarm before that.

MDS,
I've wondered the same thing as you. I went ahead and just uncovered my supers a week or two ago and am going to keep an eye on them. I'm not terribly worried about moths just yet, especially...

It's red clover that bees don't work. Crimson clover is a different type of clover, and I've seen bees all over it in little patches we have planted. That being said, I've seen pictures of bees on...

Cleo,
This is the first I've seen of this thread. I appreciate you guys finding an answer to the question

Cleo,
I actually have a metal top from a cover that got left on the ground and warped. What do people have against using galvanized metal?

For those of you who made your own wax melter, what did you use for the metal tray you put the wax on and where did you get it?

bosco500,
I've wondered the same thing you are. I don't think I would ever try to use just one deep for the brood nest. Right now I have some hives that are two deeps and several that are a deep...

I'm familiar with checkerboarding, just haven't given it a try yet, and none of my hives are really set up like Walt's (one deep with two shallows on top). I might try it next year. Right now I'm...

If adding drawn honey supers to help relieve congestion is part of your swarm prevention plan, when do you start adding them? Do you start when the maples, deadnettle, and dandelions start, or do you...

Call the Dadant location in Frankfort. The manager there is also a beekeeper and sells some nucs.

If maples produce light green pollen then that is probably my source.

It is sunny and around 60 here in Western Ky. today so I went to go see what the bees were doing. They were out flying and bringing in pollen. The two most common I saw were a white to light yellow...

I've bought most of my stuff from Kelly as well, but if you plan on driving, Dadant has a location in Frankfort right off of I-64. You can see everything there before you buy it as well, and have a 1...

It happened here to. I don't know about any nectar coming in, but I checked two hives yesterday, and the bees were flying and bringing in what I thinki was dandelion pollen

Michael,
How do you keep these colonies from swarming before you graft, and do you search for queen cells before you put the grafts in?

"I looked at a google map of my surroundings, two of the biggest parks are within 3 miles from my house with good size lakes. Lots of golf courses too and a couple horse farms. How would a hive here...

Thanks Michael

Thanks Moon. Do you know what the purpose of the partially filled super is?

Michael, could you briefly describe your queen rearing method. I don't want thousands of quality cells, but I wouldn't mind forty or fifty.

I believe he calls it OTS (on the spot) queen rearing now. I haven't tried everything, but this past summer I had a couple of hives go queenless and I placed a frame of young brood in each one,...