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I typically don't want to throw brood out. Unless there's something wrong with it, throwing it out is a step in the wrong direction. (Unless I'm misunderstanding what you're proposing.)

You'll need to clarify as what you're describing doesn't sound like standard practice.

A'sPOPPY, is that pollen sycamore?

You're in a beautiful area. We were there last year for the caves, stayed in a cabin up at the top of the hill, and did some horseback riding. We also ran down...

Unfortunate to hear.

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"Fencing the hives in is not an option."

Why?

You have options:

1) YOU can fence the hives in - it's really simple, and for 5 hives, not a large area.

2) Move the cattle.

Ditto on checkerboarding for me.

I have difficulty being sold on the notion that small-cell bees are so much smaller that they don't allow tracheal mites to develop inside them. In order for them to be that much smaller - 'smaller...

This year I used more deeps as supers than I normally have. I saved a few to extract in winter, storing them in the finished portion of our attic. I don't remember whining when I carried them up 2...

I saw MP's note in another thread on "wintering nucs" and I didn't want to hijack the thread, so I started a new thread in hopes of asking the following question:



I've been wondering how this...

hmm...now I'd think that being said as a blanket statement would stir some controversy, unless it's meant regionally, and only for your region.

I would like to hear how everyone did with checkboarding this year, what their results were, (swarming, hive strength, etc.) and how it's tied into their decisions this fall on how many boxes to...

Just as a point that I caught myself pondering, this year one of my first-year hives (swarm from late last year) mirrored your configuration (D-D-QE-D-D), and I threw a shallow super on top of that...

Is your area currently in a nectar dearth? Are your hives at all congested/tight for space?

As for checkerboarding, I really would like to see a thread started discussing the results folks have seen using it. I checkerboarded early this year around and above the brood nest and went to three...

Bad assumptions to make include but are not limited to:
- Bears typically arent sighted, so they're probably not here. None of the neighbors have seen them.
- I live in town so I'm probably safe. ...

Unclear - were your dead-outs because you had a bad flow last year and they didn't store extra reserves plus they didn't take enough feed? You're hoping to feed some of this honey back (or did they...

That's why I had that one open. :)

Could be. It would be nice if the clusters merge before brood rearing gets going. I think that maybe this happens more than we sometimes realize, and would explain why sometimes in our late-winter...

Yeah Spart,
It's ok to do if they need it. I've put MountainCamp piles on mine a few years in the cold when needed, and can tell you that if it's needed, the benefits outwiegh the risk, especially...

http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z219/dug_6238/splitcluster2-2.jpg

Denon, I'm just up the road from you. I live in Lilly (outisde Cresson) and I work in Johnstown. There's plenty of winter left - they're going to need whatever they have left.

I saw my hives...

You could find the same thing out after about 4 days by looking for eggs.

Sounds like you've learned a valuable lesson about people telling you that a honey cap will always stop the queen from...

Just as an FYI...Tanging (banging a wooden spoon on a pan) was discounted in a study a few years back as having no impact on a swarm...sometimes they do end up going back or ending up on an available...

Oh NO...and now for some stupid reason now those stupid youtube clips of the naked beekeeper come to mind...I wish you folks had never shown the link for that.



Oh yeah, everyone knows that...

Maybe a little air flowing through without getting them cold. A few mummies aren't too bad, but a lot would be bad. See what others say especially in your area, but in my area this wouldn't be bad...