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cool, thanks guys.

just found this in one of the hives ... drone cells ?

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see attached images .

past few nights I have seen this happen from different hives. Last night it was these two hives as seen in the images. I have 12 hives . they aren't particularly crowded as...

ok good to know, and what do you think could have caused the one drone to die... maybe too much smoke ? I try to use as little smoke as possible

I inspected a couple of my hives today . One of which (about a year old) is a two deep with only 8 frames in the top box (fairly new frames) as i expanded on this hive about 6 weeks ago. In one of...

personally we didn't trust straps, we got some lil small scrap pieces of wood and actually lightly nailed the boxes together. But I think either can work , I was thinking worst case so i decided to...

we moved our three deep hive as one unit recently... we did it in the night , blocked up the entrance with crushed newspaper in the night when all the bees were back home... moved the hives into the...

Thanks everyone

Ok thanks for the info. These are extremely strong 3 deep hives. Only personally owned them for two months. Bought them off someone and harvested honey from in two weeks ago I got 5.5 litres from 15...

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Recently , from one hive, i have seen a couple bees feeding on half developed nymphs near the opening of the hive. last weeks i saw 4 or 5 'white bees' (not fully developed yet) been discarded from...

Any update on this possible solution to ridding a hive of SHB ?

I am new here, and I just tried the search feature with no luck on the topic. So if anyone can point me to any forum discussion on hive beetles it would be appreciated.

If not
I have 10 hives,...

New to this.

Hello to all

Matt