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When your screen or filter clogs put them outside in the shade bottom up and the bees will clean the wax out. this works when thier is no honey flow. I agree with the hot knife.

I have never seen bees work queen annes lace. Some get it confused with boneset, a minor honey, fall, sorce.

Even the capped brood don't not look healthy to me.

If you do this queen excluder between brood with super on bottom thing you had better have a upper exit for drones to excape.

I use 4 castors with 3/4 plywood works very well. I have an older 24 frame root extractor,very heavy. When i am through extracting i use a cheap small floor jack to tilt the whole platform and tank...

I work the soil in July early & again later in the month to cut down on the weeds. Then i plant the first part of Augest. It blooms the next year. Then when the bloom is gone i start over again. In...

You cross wire wax foundation to keep jt from bowing. Foundation, with a bow, even with vertical wire, or pins, will cause short cells on one side & long cells on the other. the finished product...

Google Judy Wu she has some good info on chemicals in comb,

IF you hold the supers long side & rock it gently from side to side the frames will space ok. This only works with loose frames.

I live in the southern tip of il. I piant sweet clover in augest so it can compete with the weeds. I nave planted on the snow & in the spring with poor results, to many weeds. I work the ground every...

AFB is most often recognized in the brood that is caped. Sunken cappings, greesey wet looking. It strings out when it is mixed with a stick. EFB the larva dies before it is caped. It will turn...

This is the first year in a long time that i got a fall surplus. One hive got spanish nettle and aster. the other hive got knotweed With a little aster mix.
i don't know what medical benefit it has...

I would put them back on a strong hive for a couple of days . The bees will clean the frames nicely. Then rob them again. If you are worryed about the wax worms & and eggs you can freeze the frames...

If you plant sweet clover in the winter or spring it won't bloom until the next year. I like to plant it in august in my area so it will bloom next season. You also have less weeds to compete with....

I use to get 2 or 3 supers of soy bean honey in south east Mo.a season. The indeterminant beans are better than the determant beans they keep on blooming and the determant ones only bloom a short...

A beekeeper friend ran 700 hives. He would break the seal & put a wedge, like a narrow cap board, between the supper & hives, long enough to let the bees clean up the burr comb. He said this keep...

Michael has a point on the soft wax filled with honey. Three years ago i did not wire the frames on a deep. I needed to move them to a different area. the field was rough and the bumps shook the...

Take a 1/4 in. rope long enough to go over the limb and back down to the ground. Put a throwing weight on one end of the rope. Throw the rope over the limb next to the bees. Tie a frame with some...

All of the stores in my area, sorthern il, that i have been in, have switched from 5lb bags to 4lb bags. Walmart Kroger save a lot aldi's. It is worth checking the weight.

The honey should be ok unless you have a lot of moisture in your area. If you do take it off, put it in a sealed container if you don't have dry air. Honey is hygroscopic.

This work's sometimes. take a frame of brood .tie a long stout cord to the frame. tie a throwing weight to the other end of the cord. throw the cord over the limb ,next to the bee's, & pull the frame...

I am not to far from your area. I live in so Il. I use to move my bees to Morley Mo area. We got very good crops of honey from harry vetch & when that was done we moved to the soy beans, both...

you can rock the super back and forth lightly & it will space the frame ok if your in a hurry