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I'm looking for a screen bottom board with a "tube style" receptacle that sits under the srcreenthat can bee filled with oil for an 8-frame hive. I see a lot of these avalable for 10-frame hives but...

I took some honey off last week, 50 lbs, it was 85% or more capped. I think it is mainly wildflower and Basswood. i have checked the water conternt with an acurate refractometer and it it 17.5%...

all i can say is this, i ordered a small number of queens from Russel on Feb 15th 2012, i paid via paypal at the time i paced the order and have heard NOTHING from Russel to date! I have sent several...

I raised my first batch of queens the middle of this May. I use a Cloake Board exactly as perscribed by Sue Cobey in her " The Cloake Board Method of queen rearing" article. Every thing went very...

I am going to be teaching a educational class about Honey Bees at a local Bio-dynamic farm, it's a basic itroductory class, not a full blown bee keeping class. But the students wil have direct...

What is the best way to place a ripe queen cell in a 5-frame nuc? some say to stick it to the comb, some say to hang it between the frames, Ect..... I am using JZ-BZ wide base cell cups, Any advice...

Thank you, this info and callender are very helpfull!

I am raisind some queens using a cloake board and grafting this year, i will be installing the cells in 5 frame nuc boxes. How many days after the graft is the optimal time to install the queen cell ?

i am going to raise a small number of my own queens this spring, i have ran bees for quite a while, but i have not raise my own queens yet. I have some good stock i would like to popagate.
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i think Michael Bush hit on the crux of my question, here is a bit of a refinement of it. So assuming that 92-89 degrees F in the hive is roughly optimal for comb drawing and nectar evaporation (...

I would like to get some opinions and info on the use of screened inner covers. I use open screened bottom boards this time of years, and i'm wondering if using screend inner covers as well would be...

I have a new localy bred queen in one of my colonies, i have been keeping an eye on her to see how she is preforming, she is laying a nice tight patten and all is looking good. But yester day i...

i would like to say thank you to every one who replied to my post, the information has been very helpfull. From what has been said i believe i will split the colonies and hope for the best. I would...

two of my hive are very strong, i have been keeping an eye on them. They both have an entire box of undrawn comb on top of the brood nest, so i thought i was giving them enought room. i checked them...

I'm wonering and intereted in what the going reasonable price for a healthy and strong over winterd colony(consisting of 2 deeps) would be this spring in the northen midwest, MI, WI & MN, assuming...

I realy appreciate every one imput and help. two of my hives are hygenic Italians (queens froh OHB), two are localy caught swarms, and one is Carnolian. The Italians were treeted for mites in the...

i took a quick look when we had the warm snap and the all still have plenty of honey

i took a quick look when we had the warm snap and the all still have plenty of honey

I have five hives in the yard near my house. I live in MI There was a normal amount of dead bees (1cup or so) at the entrances when the really cold weather hit in the end of Nov. last week we had a...

I walled by my 5 hives this morning and saw that the entrances were blocked with snow after last nights lake affect, i cleared out the entrances and found about 1 cup of dead bees just inside the...

I am thinking of trying a new winter ventelation method this year with 3 of my "2-deep" 10 frame hives. i am thinking of putting 3/4 in wood shimms in the inside corners of the telescoping top...