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You can spray them with 1 to 1 sugar syrup. I usually use that later in the summer when I'm looking for a queen. They run less. Ace Hardware sells a good spray bottle.

They know how to propolize. But I've checked for eggs, rotated drone comb, etc.
So if I leave them be a couple of days, I can expect the frames to be still stuck when I get there?

Getting ready to start an outyard so I'll be hauling hives on bumpy roads with my trailer. Seems like the frames will swing back and forth, rub, squish bees. A couple of clips or spacers on each...

Look for a real lumberyard, Lowe's and Home Depot are high compared to the local yards I deal with...

Lowe's and Home Depot sell interlocking floor pads for kids rooms. Red, yellow, blue and green.

I use 4 sheets of newspaper and leave a little space all the way around. that way they may move in any direction under the paper. I also leave it dry as I thing its highest purpose, especially in...

Oakhill...it sounds like they are in good shape and you should take the feeders off.

The thing that may...stressing MAY... be different for your area this winter is a cold stormy winter is being...

I agree about syrup temperature. ccar2000 you mention they are working local vegetation...they usually prefer flower nectar and may ignore your feed by choice.

As an experiment this winter, I'm...

For any Miller type feeder I use, I lay a small piece of screen over the inner cover hole and tape around it with masking tape. I lay a couple of small...1/4" or so...blocks of wood at the front...

Well said clgs....

The "Mountaincamp Method" would be simpler and for sure works well. It provides food if they chose to eat the sugar.
A link:...

Shouldn't affect bees but this disease outbreak is serious!
Please see link to know if this killer disease is affecting your tomatoes or potatoes.
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I don't know...there always seems to be so much confusion about Checkerboarding. I've practiced it for 3 or 4 years and its simple but it's not. It is more than just alternating frames of empty and...

Wake up Michael....

I must be daunted...

>Checkerboarding does not involve brood at all, it is a manipulation of honey frames. <

>it in no way involves the brood nest itself. False.

Sure the brood nest is not...

A bit more....the hive I use for this will end up so stocked going into winter that the brood nest doesn't move out of the bottom box by February. I like to replace 2 outside full frames in the...

Walt's way practiced here.
But...I have had a hive or two with a young queen that seemed to produce comb quickly and on into the fall with feed on. I will store 20 or so in a freezer for...

Hang on sjbees. The brood gets moved to the bottom. All this happens in the brood chamber.

Since one never knows if BeeQuick is available, I made a bunch of triangle escapes and used them to take off honey yesterday and today. I lifted the supers off and put those back that weren't full,...

Can't get him on the phone or E-mail.....

Can't see your pic...Wondering if the hive has enough ventilation? Prop the lid on up.
For your smoker, try the fuel sold by the venders...Brushy Mt or Millers. Light it with a propane (plumbers)...

I've been looking hard to find the info about opening and closing the doors of a snelgrove board when dealing with an about to swarm hive. I caught a hive talking about swarming and I used a...

Who is Michael Bush?

Many thanks....

Natilie, if your corn stalks are pulled over, it is probably racoons. If the stalks still stand and the husks are shredded, it could be rats...feed your cats out there.
The garden will be much...

I have found that sugar syrup spray works better when I'm hunting a queen. Doesn't send such an alarm. Otherwise I use smoke...