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I too don't know how to tell between attack and welcome, as I have never seen attack. Is it obvious or subtle? A you'll know it when you see it type of thing??

Thank you all! Michael, good point on the keeping queen until new queen is accepted. Although replacing one due to genetics, Russian cross, too angry for me. The other I will "store" in a Nuc

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I have a couple of minor questions on doing a requeening.

First, on killing the queen. Do I leave her in hive so that they "know" she's dead, or just give her a proper burial?

Second,...

If making a split, can you also bank a couple of queens in the new split with new queen?

Just a quick comment. Screened bottom board (closed or open, doesn't matter) and upper entrance is ok for cold climates. I have done that and had no issues overwintering. Upper entrance is actually...

Thanks everyone. I'm actually looking into using the Hopkins method, as I only need a couple of queens, and this method looks extremely simple, and yet produces decent queens. Thanks again.

More a curiosity than anything else, but exploring methods of queen rearing for small (less than 5) apiary. In the process of making a cell builder, if I were to temporarily remove my queen from the...

Perhaps reduce weak hive to a Nuc and place on top of strong hive for winter

So, combination was successful as far as the queen goes. I put the queenright deep on top of LW deep, but left top opening for field bees to return into queenright colony. Queen survived and I have...

So are you saying too late for a queen to prep for winter? and so let's experiment because it ain't goin to matter? That's not what I was hoping to hear. Too late to requeen as well then? The...

I was concerned with doing the combine and still having laying workers, and what they might do to the queen in the combined hive. So, perhaps that MB procedure and a combine: Do the combine, but...

So, planning on combining two hives - one I think is a drone layer (no queen) the other just a week hive. The drone layer seems medium strength and so I was thinking of combining to that location....

saw a couple blooming here as well. Also, clethra is starting to bloom. Seems like the clethra is about a month early

Thoughts on moisture are interesting, although not sure how feeding would be any different than them evaporating down nectar? As far as EOs, supposedly the EOs in HBH are antifungal, and therefore...

So still dealing with this! :s

Started feeding the hive with top feeder w/ syrup and homemade HBH. Researching showed that essential oils had a possibility of helping, so I gave it a try. The hive...

So, went back in yesterday and interestingly, the QC is gone. No evidence? I wrote on the frame to be sure I could re-locate. So what does this tell me? Also, another single QC (capped) is on the...

I'm thinking it's a supercedure cell as well, and I'm thinking the bees know best, but wanted to ask. Don't think it's an emergency cell, as I saw eggs, and so there is still a queen in hive.

So, after a dry spell (nectar that is) my bees are getting a good flow on Catalpa I think. Went in to my strongest hive (that's not saying much) and found a sealed queen cell see pic here:
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Thanks Cam. Read an Australian article that suggested anecdotally, that bananas may work. Also, just ran across some stuff that mentioned potential benefits of HBH or essential oils, as they have...

So, I have several questions related to chalkbrood. First some background. Rcvd an over-wintered Nuc in early May. Installed in Deep same day. Within a week, started to see some dried brood on front...

Mike - does this change based on strain of bee, or pretty universal? If below min, especially at end of dandelion/fruit bloom, re-queen should happen? Thx

Chip

Honey Bee Genetics and Glenn Apiary are two different outfits. One is in Vacaville, CA the other Fallbrook, CA. From everything I've seen, both are highly regarded.

Am I being technically stupid, or have the pictures disappeared on page 1 at least?

Sorry, go figure, now they show up. Must be my impatience!!

I actually started with a package, and that was a good experience, but queen got superseded and eventually the hive went queenless and died. Currently am overwintering a Nuc and have an order in for...

so, regardless of the queen, being over-wintered or not, it is the emerging brood into nurse bees that is the key. Thank you. Didn't know that, and it makes sense.