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This is a nice experiment with the frame of bees and a queen over to the troublesome hive. Sometimes a queen less hive with laying workers is not that willing to accept a new queen bee, either caged...

It just means that the batch of eggs from the drones that the queen laid are
all from the same solid black drone bees. That means the black drone population
is higher and stronger than the lighter...

Have you look at the bee rearing calendar yet? http://www.thebeeyard.org/queen-rearing-calendar/
This should give you the approximate date for the queen cells to hatch. I would put the capped...

I have 7 hives that are divided into 3 section nucs per hive that each
section has a new queen. It is alright to pull the 2 frames into a new nuc.
Some drifters will fly back to the original...

If no new brood or any cap cell or eggs then your queen is either a virgin or a failed queen.
A few queen cups do not mean there are egg inside the cups. Sometimes the bees will
build them. The...

If they cannot remove the dead bees during the rainy days then
you have to help them out. A coat hanger wire shape in a hook
will do.

It is alright to give them all the empty frames to fill up the bottom
box. The new queen should be laying more eggs to expand later on. If they
occupy at 80-85% in one box then add more room for...

I grew them to see how my hives perform with them. So far I'm very
happy with them esp. the purple type.
Other said the honey is quick to turn into crystal. But I have not seen
enough of them...

When they have an active queen running around they will feed the new queen
inside the cage. Now I know not to do this again.

The best way is to call the paint company to ask them how toxic or if the
smells will harm your cells or virgins. You can even ask them if the smell
will harm the chicken eggs too.
My opinion...

Yep, same here. I put qc that is about to be hatch in 3 days into a new
nuc by the capped broods area. So far they are doing great. Once the
virgin hatched they will accept her better than a...

I do queen cell grafting. One got torn out a bit but they did not repair the wax by the
cell cup that was open. The next day when I checked on this hive the cell got opened up and the
queen bee...

Probably the smaller bees do not meet their standard of a healthy worker bee so
they carried them off to bee disposed of.
And the grooming part is what they do to clean off any parasites off their...

If you don't see any new eggs right now then you don't have a laying queen or the
queen got killed from some mishaps. Maybe they don't like this queen?
To avoid the LW you have to give them...

I think it is late Fall.
Summer they are fine now.
All are thriving with a few dozen borage plants blooming now.
They supplement with the canola field by the local farmers here.

Yes, very sad indeed!
How many beekeepers we have here from
OK?

If you winter them in 2 deeps and not a deep and a super then you should add another deep now.
But if you winter them in a deep and a super then add another super. Yes, it depends on what is your...

The combination of both breeds are a hybrid. What I have is the Carni mixed in lighter
color than the pure dark Carni queen. If the daughter queen is from a Carni drone
then her color is much...

I have done this before with the soft candy. When the workers are desperate for
a new queen they will work around the clock trying to release her. My fastest time
was 2.5 days for them to get...

Hi, All! Right now I have 2 new queens inside the mini cages.
They are in the same hive also because I'm running out of room
for expansion. So I build more boxes. One queen has more worker...

What hormone is responsible for their calmness when the queen is present?
Or to make them turn into aggressive worker bees?

LW can only produce the drones. They cannot produce any queen because
they are not fertile like a queen bee.
Yes, they are nasty and aggressive without a queen bee. My normal gentle
hive...

Using weed guard landscaping fabrics around your hive stand
will suppress the weeds for a season or two. Put wood chips
on top of the weed guard is even better after laying a piece of
plastic...

What if they decide to check because of the buzzing noise? 3 hives
put together on the same location will make a lot of buzzing noise
when they cannot go outside in the day time. I had...

Keep it up up there. Very simple. In a region where summer is short and winter is long, it
will help to maximize the time to collect pollen and nectar for the bees.
I would put my hives directly...