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I am planning on going too, hopefully she will open up the regrestration soon.

How much of this do mixture do you use per gallon of syrup?

hmm, seems like a pattern emerging.

Small late season swarm invading a small ocupied hive. Both too small to survive on thier own, but joined it might.


Anyone else seen this happen?

This has happened twice this summer. First to my observational hive. I had put a frame of brood into an ob hive to watch them make a queen,which they did, and was up to the third brood cycle. Then...

I have just aquired a bee log. A neibor was cutting down a tree in his pasture for firewod. One of the upper branches had a hollow area with a hive in it.

When I heard about it, it had been...

To ASSUME makes an ASS of U and ME !

Is the amount of hot wax that sticks to the hot PC enought to render it small cell? I am talking about a thin glaze of it. If not I am hoping that it will at least make a good onestep bridge to...

I just waxed some pc this weekend...what a pain. No wonder you still have multiple cases sitting on your porch Mike.

On the med nucs boxes I made up this year, I used a 1 foot 2"x8" for the back, that extends 6 inches above the lid. This way I can hang them from a nail in a tree (the way you would put up a bird...

I use ceramic tile underlayment, it is a protland/fiberglass composite. If you watch the tile section at lowes, you can pick up pieces for cheep ( 3'X5' SHEETS with broken corners)
It is heavier...

> It will work better than even you can imagine.

Peggjam, about how often were you able to pull splits? ( I realise my actual millage may very )

> If I had thought it was a bad plan, I point out the problems.

I have noticed that, I was being humorious.

Thanks Pegg and Mike, I'll give it a whirl.

> sounds like a lot of work, but it might work well.

I'm trying to decide if thats an endorsement or if your patronising me. I use a simular statement when my boy come in with one of his...

Let me be more specific. It has been said that a two queen hive makes as much honey as two single queen hives, with 3 times the work. However I am after bees. It has been said that 2-queen hives...

Do you find this a good way to build up populations for splits and/or nucs?

How early in the spring do you add the second queen.

never mind.....found it---> 3 mile radius

If you go with the idea of putting your queen yard in the center, and your drone hives in a circle around it, How far out should your drone hives be from the center?

Fordguy asked a question about breeding down the AHb into gentiler bees. I had wondered the same thing. Do we know how mean the ancesters of our bees were when man first started working with them?

Thanks Bucky, what about the rest of you? Are you opposed to GM as a science, or just as it has been applied so far?

When we realy know where we agree and dissagree, then we can begin to have a...

Its been 5 days and no one has argued with you Mike, so I guess that means your motion carries.

So now the question is...

Who has been working without treatments ( as described above) ,...

>Considering the number of detailed posts here and in previous threads, I am suprised you asked the question.

I asked because it was nessessary to do so. The two issues had to be seperated. By...

I am planning to do the brood box checker boarding to downsize to natural cell, but my goals for the year are splits and Queen rearing like chief. Thanks for the info on the "when and how", but I...

> do we want to put the future of out food supplies in the hands of a few....

Now we may be getting down to it! Are you opposed to the GM science, or leary of the corporations that are...

I'm away for a few days and I have piles to read to catch up.

Kieck, good post.


Logic is what seems to be missing from quoted news sources ( on either side).

I remember as a kid,...