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Karu, that sounds exactly like my silver maples. They bloom before anything else, at least in my climate. Some have red flowers (female flowers) and some are greenish/yellow - male flowers, those are...

My $.02...
I don't think it matters all that much.

Honestly, 6 years ago if you'd have asked me, I'd have guesses that an apiary is where they keep cages full of monkeys. (aviary for apes!)
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Ha!
"Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night nor hordes of gun-toting criminals stays this courier from the swift completion of his appointed rounds"

George Imarie is a master beekeeper. Probably got more honey per hive than most people here. Kept bees for years, was highly successful at it. If people followed his advice to a tee (which he...

Please keep in mind that the club invited this experienced beekeeper to present his opinions and philosophies at a meeting.

He doesn't recommend SBB. He doesn't think they are necessary. Those...

Great, you made me laugh, and now with my cold I'm hacking like a runaway hearse.

(I can't stop coughin'!)

After doing a sugar shake, pop out a few cells of brood, rolled in sugar...mmm...sweet buttery crunch!!


No, not really!:lookout:

Sorry to hear about that! I've been through similar several times, I know how frustrating it is!

It might be a good idea to get to know some beekeepers in the area if you can. I am willing to...

Perhaps in an incense stick, but when producing clouds of thick white smoke from a smoker using pine needles...well...after the coughing stops and the eyes stop watering, it smells pretty much like...

I guess I would think that killing a happy chicken would be more of a crime. Having cut off the heads of a few happy free range chickens, I can say honestly that I did NOT enjoy thinking about their...

Half the fun is figuring some of that out yourself!! Nothing feels better than overcoming a huge disappointment and fixing it...:rolleyes: ...that feeling of elation when after a bad year you crack...

Higher alcohol also usually will mean longer aging times to be drinkable. I'd guess that you are on the longer edge of those times listed.

Pretty neat little buggers!
A few times growing up I'd find one that was black with orange spots. I called it a man-bug!:D

Ha! You made them really angry! They get that way in more in the fall and when it is cooler out.

Yuppers...that's the alarm "everybody out to kill 11x!" smell. I too smell it mostly in the...

Ha ha that's funny...

"I have a dog I think is a pit bull that that showed up in my yard...I've read that pit bulls have very aggressive personalities and are know to mutilate and kill children...

I think that it will happen more often than we might think, but the hive won't last the winter so they aren't noticed as often.

Unlike a bee tree which will persist for years until somebody cuts...

If it was moth crystals or PDb like the title said, then they should be fine after a year.

Do you know that that is what kept the bees out of the supers? Were there bees in there at all over the...

Yeah, but it just got hit with a tsunumi...:cry:

I've run into this a few times...in that case I usually will leave it on and treat that way...by spring it will be gone, they will raise brood up there and then refill it for next year.

To avoid...

Awesome! Sometimes patience and understanding will work wonders. I had noticed that you didn't badmouth anybody, rather a more disappointed understanding that perhaps was read and then remembered...

Keep an eye on the hives, if they are robbing one you can get a lot of bees too.

You'll see them flying around for a few days. They have really really long memories...:waiting:

My rule of thumb is when it gets into the 40s at night. The mice start foraging in the hive when the bees start clustering, but they won't stay during the day when the bees get more active.

Once...

Those cough drops really do work GREAT! I use them in the hives over the winter.

And I have NEVER HEARD ANY OF MY BEES COUGH! The trick, though, is getting the drops broken up small enough for...

Spread it on bread and
a) you will hardly notice the comb and
b) the scrunched wax will keep the honey on the bread better.

Other than that you can just chew it like the old wax lips, only it...

Don't sweat it...they are all the way up here in the frozen north. Not a problem if you get a few freezes a year, at least not any more than wax moths. Maybe a little more so for your. Pay...