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Take care of your own hives first if your needing them for income. You didn't say how many hives your running but I think If your going for honey on your hives that once you had your own hives...

It hasn't been so bad here. This has become one of the better springs I can remember. We had at one point close to 2 weeks of sun at the beginning of april with temps getting up to 22 degrees celcius...

I don't think it needs to get that complecated. sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. These look like bored teenagers that are getting into mistcheif and up to no good.

If the wood is a inch thick then it wouldn't take much to plane a 16th off each side to bring it down to 7/8 inch. It would make it cleaner and it is the usual thickness of supers (at least here in...

Population is everthing to the overwintering of a colony. They'll work it out. if your feeding, the older bees will eventually wear themselves out anyway

To your first question, no. what will happen if you do that is any feild bees you had with the queen will abandon her and go to the orininal area of there home leaving the ones in the new spot with...

I know it's to late now but in cases where that happens It's best to leave the hive open for 5-10 minutes (if robbing isn't bad) and stepping away from the hive. she usually makes it back in most...

I look for the queen as I'm making up the nuc and I'm comfortable enough that if I don't see her on a frame inside of 30 seconds that she is not on it. quite often I'll find her as I'm making up the...

Not intirely sure. I used a EO treatment thyat was supposed to be a natural way of controling mites. either it didn't work or it was to harsh for the bees. I think in the end that it was the mites...

I've worked for you before Jean-marc (it's Will G. here) and have often wondered how you do it. Back in those days it seemed you had to be a better people manager then a beekeeper and the stress that...

I use the double broodnest for many reasons. I've used singles at times but only when I can't get the hive to a double to over winter in time (which has happened quite a few times). I've noticed that...

I have done this using a carni and itialin queen as well but the set up was different. I sat them up in april with the carni in the bottom super and the italian it the top two supers and there is is...

I used apivar last year from beginning of june to mid july (I wasn't producing honey last year because I was building up from the last years devestating losses). The bees were in good shape before...

If you planed your own wedding to coincide with the end of the bee season...
(which I did, Oct 15)

If most of your personal library are bee books and you buy every edition of a bee book you come...

I use a fostner bit on a drill press for which i had a jig made for to drill both end holes then the middle hole. I had to grind a bit of the starter point on the bit off as it stuck out quite a way....

I'm in southern BC Canada. just looked at my hives (nov 5) of the 15 out of the 40 I looked at, they are all still alive. I treated with apivar this year and I think it made a difference for sure....

Alfalfa is just about as good as clover as well. with the bees supplying the pollination you could harvest the seeds for alfalfa sprouts or sowing seeds and bale up the rest as feed for cattle.

I wouldn't say absconding impulse but rather supercedure, When bees abscond they all leave leaving an empty hive.

Sidelining means that you do have a day job that's supplying the main income to your wallet. My advise is to keep it simple and use your income from the bees to increase to the size you want to be....

I uncap into a super that has a screened (#8 screen) on the bottom that sits on my sump to drain. It usually has enough room for a full days extracting and I let it drain over night. the warmth of...

If the comb punch is the one I think it is, It might help also to use fresh drawn foundation that the queen has layed in. In making a divided standarded double nuc box, making the entrances on...

Not sure if I'm allowed to post this but I was just on the mannlake web site. It looks like they updated it and made it easier to navigate. I like it.

It also depends on the crop that's being pollinated. pollination in the cranberries is very hard on the bees and the hives might even need to be fed. On the other hand pollinating seed alfalfa is...

I use the 6 volt solar parmak, It keeps a good charge and keeps a good charge longer.
We take our bees to the mountians for the fireweed so having a good portable set up is necessary. We use a...

like wise I store supers outside too. to prevent mice from entering the bottoms a set the stacks on a queen excluder.