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Yeah Charlie, it probably isn't any hotter than using an electric hot knife.

If the gun is hot enough to melt the wax what is it doing to the honey?

Maybe you shouldn't look so close? I think they will be fine.

How do you see the Art of Beekeeping? What examples can you share w/ us? I see the art of beekeeping in the creative ways beekeepers interact w/ their bees and the ways they address problems and...

Brian was simply making a pre-emptive strike. He knew someone would bring it up.

What if we could selectively breed swarming tendency out of a line of bees? What would that produce?

Is it too simplistic to say that if it is a heritable trait it can be selected for? So wouldn't the use of swarm cells promote that trait. There are worse things though, aren't there? I wonder what...

Okay. Then they must not.

So what do you think? Is there likely to be?

Mexico has more managed bee hives per square mile than anywhere else in North America and there are AHB in the US, so, no, I don't think they have a good zone defense.

Yeah, Right. Tell me, who determines whether a county is AHB or not?

Well WLC, I understand that they are in the only county in Texas which isn't designated Africanized. Why do you suppose that is?

Feel free. I'm sure I didn't make it up myself. But I sure have lived it.

How do you like my new tag line? "Quit Complaining and Fix It" I stole that one from Dan Bergram.

Starving? Looks like it. Didn't think of that.

It's hard to tell from the photos. Ones in the bottom row look like laying worker brood pattern, but I'm not sure. If you have Chalk Brood there should be mummys or pellets on the hive floor. Are...

Thanks for the clarification and detail. Best wishes. This colony may be a goner. Not salvigable.

A good example of what I was referring to.

Size matters. :)

If the bees would take it it could be fed back to the bees. Did you give them a chance at it?

Quantity was my first draw back. If he had a barrel I would have told him of my friend who elevated a...

I made an assumption, I know, a dangerous thing to do, that the question was about something which happened recently. Which it turns out it was. That being said, I have seen a number of cases where a...

You can remove the cover off of a hive of bees any day of the year, as long as all you are doing is looking down between the frames and not removing them.

I had some further thoughts on this. It's only a quart or a quart and a half. Why not just keep it in the refrigerator and use it up as soon as possible. Refrigeration should keep the high moisture...

Reducing moisture content of high moisture content honey is a long held practice in the commercial beekeeping community. What would you have someone w/ 5 barrels of 20% moisture content honey do?...

Do you have an advisor? Someone you can compare hives and mite levels with? Do you know how to do an ether roll or powdered sugar roll to check mite levels? Seeing them by eye or maybe even in...

They should recover. Time will tell. Mine have. There will be some dead bees and perhaps some brood damaged, but, as long as thgere is a healthy queen and enough bees the colony should rebound.
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