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I have a hand crank 2 frame extractor and it is not hard to crank, however it gets tiresome after you crank for awhile, especially if you have a lot of supers to extract. It does a good job getting...

I went out to check on a package that was installed on April 1st. The weather was windy and cloudy and about 70 degrees. I thought I would just take a quick look under the top feeder so I didn't...

Caught my first swarm of the season the morning of 5/22/10. Got the call and they were on the head of a practice calf roping dummy in their backyard about 2-3 feet off the ground. Just swept them...

I too could smell the honey from one of my hives this evening. I was there just before they quit flying for the evening and the hive had quite a roar to it. Can't wait to harvest the honey!

I got mine yesterday and my wife says thank you thank you.

I have two hives, one started from a package this year with no harvest, the other I harvested 84 Lbs from.

I live just North of Brooksbeefarm in Buffalo MO and my bees have not yet started working the golden rod either. Last year they worked it a little later in the year but not heavily.

Thanks for all of the information. I have been out of town all weekend and just returned this evening (Sunday). It has been very hot and humid here with temps in the upper 90's therefore I...

I have a hive that I started from a package spring of 2007 on a dead out so they had 2 deep hive bodies of drawn comb to start with. I pulled about a 5 gallon bucket of honey off of this hive after...

Thanks for the info. This is a wonderful site with very helpful people. I tend to do more reading of the threads to obtain information however once in a while I come across something that I haven't...

I removed a super to extract and noticed a handfull of bees above the inner cover. After extracting I went to replace the super above the inner cover to let the girls clean it up and the top of the...

Thanks for the advice about putting the wet super back on the hive. I extracted for the first time today and got 5 gal. from a deep super. I was excited to see MY honey coming out of the extractor...

I have been keeping bees for 3 years and this year is the first year I will be getting honey from them. I went out this afternoon and pulled a deep super completly full of capped honey. I placed a...

I will try to find a queen quickly.

Does anybody know where I can purchase a queen quickly? I plan to make some phone calls to some of the suppliers listed in the latest issue of Bee Culture...

I took Sierrabees advice and just got back from opening up this hive after dark and looking down into it with a flashlight. The bees are still there clustering on about 4 frames, therefore tomorrow...

I consider myself a beginner at Bee Keeping, I have been trying it for a couple of years. I have a hive that made it through the winter however seems to stay the same very small size and I don't see...