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We have been getting so much rain this Spring that almost nothing is getting planted and the bees have been huddled inside their hives about half the time. We just had three good days and now looks...

I have not seen any drones yet but yesterday I began working on a feral hive that had moved into some ancient brood boxes my neighbor had left out. Most of the old frames were empty and the hive had...

I have the same problem. I lost five hives this Winter and now have an abundance of drawn frames, most of which are empty of any stores. The few frames I had with honey or pollen in them I put in my...

Gmcharlie - I did put a cedar stem infront of their entrance and placed a box at the old site and so far no bees have returned to the original site. Of course it hasn't been warm enough yet for them...

I think you are rather not seeing the forest because of a few trees there beepro. Perhaps if all you have is a garden hive kept small for personal pollination you may be able to make a dent in the...

Beepro I have lived on a farm my entire life, except when I was in the army, and there really is no such thing as a drought resistant plant. There are some plant varieties that require less water but...

beepro I planted about 50 acres of buckwheat last year around the areas where I keep my bees to no avail as it all dried up before blooming. The Goldenrod and Aster flow sorta happened in the Fall...

Cdevier I was putting feed inside the hives every time it warmed up enough to pop the covers and setting out open feeders of syrup whenever I thought the girls could get out and I still lost 2/3rds...

Oh and rweakley when I had the hive apart yesterday I didn't smoke em or wear gloves and not a bee head butted my hood screen or landed on me. They didn't even seem to care I was around and were very...

Acebird and rweaklet I see your point. Yes I am pretty sure now that I think about it that the bottom two boxes were empty. They sure felt light and now I am worried that what I have done is split...

Also Acebird when you say one of the boxes should have been empty what do you mean? The only thing I have to give this hive right now is a candy board, dry sugar or syrup there is nothing left of...

Acebird, As the hive sat it had one full sized super directly on the concrete with three mediums above that. The top most medium had been slid over making the entrance in a corner about half an inch...

I have already placed them on the new bottom board. I rigged it like a stretcher between a couple of 2x4's with cross support and handles so I can just pick the whole thing right up with my son. I...

Been a hard Winter for my bees. By Mid February I had only lost one hive but in the course of the next four weeks every time we had a cold snap or another snow storm I was loosing a hive to...

YB - The swarm I caught last night appears to want to leave today they are heavily balled up outside the nuc box I put them in. I really don't have another frame of eggs to steal atm to keep them...

This has been a completely whacked swarming year. I had a very small ground swarm in April then a couple of normal swarms came out in early May then a few big ones I captured in Late May which I am...

I had a couple of the low end 10 frame hive bodies that were warped last year out of an order of ten I think, also a couple that had a big chip in the hand hold and one or two have developed cracks...

Seems like every time I hive a new swarm or move a nuc to a hive I get some bees under the SBB. After they have been in the hive a while it seems to stop so my guess is just confusion. I usually open...

I have drilled a half inch hole in my top honey supers and then placed regular window screen over the hole. I also use SBB's but usually only leave them about a third to half open if at all until the...

I am betting the drones all over in front of the hives is the end of a mating flight. Perhaps they mated with a queen on her way back when she got close to the hive or they got back before dying...

A few weeks ago while some planting was going on around one of my hives I noticed several hundred bees dead just under the hive entrance and scattered out upto a foot or two away. Many of the dead...

Had a very small swarm on the ground today about three foot in front of one of my hives. I wasn't even sure it was a swarm until I sifted through it and found the queen. I gave em a frame of honey,...

I usually put out about 50 to 60 each of tomatoes and peppers and I have rarely seen a honey bee on them. What my bees seem to like is cucumbers. The cucumbers seem to bloom at a normally low period...

I have two of my hives out in a patch of woods together a few miles from my house. With the mild Winter the girls have been building up nicely and as of two weeks ago were getting really full in two...

Thanks Enchplant!!!

I guess in my limited swarm captures they had never been around long enough to begin comb building at the swarm point. It was just something different.

I already got the...