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We are meeting every 3rd Tuesday of the month. We had our first meeting on July 17th and had 42 people show up, including a lot of new and wannabe beekeepers. We started this club basically because...

After the second failure I would add at least 2 frames of open brood to counter the dying bees. Generally, as long as there is open brood in the hive the workers won't start laying, although I'm sure...

What kind of extractor? Speed?

If you have the resources to make a split with the cells, without compromising your productive hive, I'd say go for it. If you don't and the hive has eggs to back you up, I don't think there is...

If the nuc with the supercedure cell still has eggs or very young larvae, I would cut it out. If in a few days they have another built, then obviously there is something wrong with the queen and they...

Are certain bees devoted to temperature control only, for a certain time in their life? When its too hot, by staying as far away from the brood as possible, is that not an act of temperature control?

I try to place new foundationless frames between frames of worker comb. Not sure if that helps, but I've never had any problems with having too much drone comb. I only have ever seen fist size...

Temperatures in the 90's is no big deal. I would say the best thing to do is to create more ventilation. If you have multiple hive boxes, you can slide one back slightly to create a 3/8" gap. That...

I always though about building a hive out of Lincoln Logs, haha.

This may have been mentioned, but maybe virgin queens are more motivated to do so because they feel smaller? Where as a larger mated queen would rarely do so

I would make a custom 5-frame queen excluder and add 5-frame supers. Or add another 5-frame deep for brood and do the same, if he wants it a bit bigger. It all depends on how active he wants to be...

Interesting thread. I had no idea of all the stuff that goes on...

Depending on how many other beekeepers there are in your surrounding area, I'd say a newbee has a very good chance on catching a swarm or doing a cut-out. The trick is to get your name out there....

I've been making up some double nucs this year. They are 8-frame medium boxes with a divider in the middle. I think in this case, I gave each side of this double nuc a queen cell not long after they...

Probably just something better in bloom.

I wonder how long Mr. Rogers would last as Bayer's apiologist if he stated otherwise...

How long can you do this before the queens are unable to successfully mate?

What Wallie said. Also, I wouldn't worry about removing the comb they build between the upper and lower frames.

I'd say there will be more and more foragers everyday, but it will take newly emerged bees around 22 days to become foragers.

http://www.bushfarms.com/beesmath.htm

I'm getting a cell starter ready to give it another try(and hopefully a lot more next year when I hopefully have more resources). I'm going reduce it to a 5-frame cavity and use the same plastic...

Just registered. Can't wait!

Is that usually how AFB is spread? And if that is the process that causes deadly cases of AFB, then why not take it a step further and seek out the feral hives and inspect them?

Not sure what you're getting at. How are people who don't actively manage their hives dangerous?

I find that the bees are still very nervous acting even when they have a virgin queen.

Not meaning to hijack the thread, but do they make push in cell protectors for swarm and supercedure cells on frames, that allows them to hatch and not kill each other?