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Nice to have you here on this site Tazon - and very nice pictures!

If you like to use DIVISION BOARD FEEDERS 10 Frame equipment gives you more options!

I recently was given 3 barrels of corn syrup.

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The barrels were stored in a warehouse but I am not sure if they were always stored at a minimum of 80 F.

The production date is May 2011....

Bonjour Patrice,

Good luck for your new life in the US.

Salut Ralf

Well just because you see a sprayer going through the orchard doesnt mean it makes anybody sick! Even organic growers own a spray rig and apply organic chemicals to their trees. This year a lot of...

Bloom is in full swing - good weather and lots of nectar and pollen !

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So why is it 48h - wouldn't it be better to wait just before capping - like 72h?

It sounds like it will turn out the same as the last few years. By mid Jan. everybody is talking about a shortage of bees for almonds and by the 10th of Feb. there is a surplus and the beekeepers who...

My 5 year old goes out with me checking the bees but only wears a standard veil - he usually doesn't stick his fingers in the hives and so he never got stung. But on the other hand I only wear a veil...

Often the beekeeper is payed 1/2 of the pollination fee at the time of delivery (placing into the orchard) and the other 1/2 at the end of it. This will usually serve the almond grower as well as the...

I dont know if ratpoison woud hurt the bees - but if not then you could stick it into the hive through the entrance and then put the mouse guard on ! Just a thought - never done it myself!

Yes J, I agree those are some different mites - they were maybe 1/4 size of a varroa - barely visible.

Unfortunately there is still a lot of growers out there who only count Hive-boxes !

WOW - those are some monster bees in the middle of Feb. !!!!!!!!!!!!! This is not what you typically see when you rent bees for almond pollination!! Well done!

Just found this on my sticky board - mites on a beatle!


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Welcome Goran! Croatia - what a wonderful country - I have lived in Zagreb for 2 years and only have good memories!

I just used 4 Mannlake Sticky Boards (http://www.mannlakeltd.com/beekeeping-supplies/page65.html) and I was wondering if it is possible to reuse them easily again. What would be the best way to clean...

Welcome Thombapa, and good luck in finding somebody who can help you with your trip to Australia!

Well you might get a 100 different answers since there are a 1000 different circumstances to this problem. This time of year I would not try to save the laying worker hive with a new queen - by the...

Just make sure there is no brood disease like EFB involved!

I register mine with the Ag Commissioner - it costs $10.- a year. The advantage is with the registration you may request a notice of pesticide application if a farmer sprays pesticides harmful to...

So Don, if I get those numbers right you charged an average of $788.- for a removal this year ? (13400/17).

I had the problem too. Mine had several openings on the sides:

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I just used some propolis to close the gaps and I was fine.

Good luck!

I have seen them doing it in my observation hive - the forager finds the cell where she wants to deposit the pollen, sticks the legs in the cell and wipes of the pollen into the cell with her legs -...

Pick up some of the dead bees - determine if they are young bees, foragers, drones - do some of them still have pollen on their legs? Do they have crippled wings? This will help you to determine...