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Sounds like you bought from a producer who is doing things correctly. Are you splitting overwintered hives or the 4 week old packages?

The past three weeks I have been getting an inordinate amount of calls and orders regarding replacement queens for packages coming out of Georgia. Lots of dead queens in packages in April. Last two...

I would assume that you have 4 or 5 frames. Correct? Are you heat slipping the support wires out? PM me with Photos of the comb as I might be interested in it cut into "my" containers. Just sold...

Lot of Queen failures coming out of Georgia in 2103. Must have shipped to 50 different people on the east coast last week that had either dead or superceded queen in packages that were delivered to...

What kind of comb? rounds? deeps? shallows? on thin surplus?

Did you milk your own cow today? Drill and refine your own gas. Make the computer chips that run the computer you posted this on. :scratch:

Many wise growers are working on doing what you are...

14 days?

Two things.
1. More syrup
2. Pics 6 AND 8 HAVE CAPPED BROOD.

The "dark" wax you speak of is from pupa casings. Not enough time yet for you to "experience " that yet.

Feed,...

Good thing about "our system" its stable and slow to change. Change happens. Slowly at that I agree. Not about to get in line for a parliamentarian system for anything in the world. The US...

Darn right you are! :)

Last week I fielded at least 20 calls from folks with messed up packages all over the US who had everything from DOA queens in packages to those who "set them free" by...

That seems to be the standard. Which one of the plugs do you purchase from the previously mentioned folk?

Say what? Not sure what you mean. Am I the only ones lost here? :shhhh:

From a guy who has hundreds of these stored unused for over 15 years I heartily agree. We have switched to all cut comb. Much easier to deal with and produce. The parts are cheaper and don't need to...

What size hole do you use?

The range of sizes varies for many beeks. Just wondering what you think works best for you operation?

Forgot the most important thing of all.

#5. One strong honey flow.

Try this
1. Excluder tossed south of the Rio Grande.
2. One box. 8 frames brood.. mostly capped.
3. 15 or more frames of bees ( as previously mentioned crammed bees make better comb.)
4. As per...

Few questions.
1. any excluders involved in this transaction?
2. What percentage of capped brood was below?
3. How many boxes below the RR?

FYI: Any quality RR needs to be capped in two weeks...

The last 5 or 6 years there has been a literal increase in the "post laying" packages supercedure rate of about 5- 10% at weeks 2-5. Some of the current research is delving into why this is...

Which ones do you purchase? and Why?

I see that the moderator or someone else in charge canned my comment. Anyone here who received it on the autofeed is welcome to re post it if they are feeling lucky. Canned post or not the AU bees...

Hadn't heard of anyone doing so in 20 years? new one on me.

Very interesting subject.

As someone who continues to get calls everyday (from especially the Midwest)where folks are still looking for packages in May 2013 the addition of an additional market...

Ya ..... Right............ When you get done helping me strap down 5000 mating nucs and then help tie and untie them each time a queen and cell goes in I will gladly help you with that half a hive...

Better yet, Traps and a pellet rifle. In California its illegal to trap and release elsewhere. Therefore we trap, "demise" them and release them to the turkey vultures.

Nit sure where you get your packages from but I can easily hand you a long list of folk who have made over 70 pounds the first year off of our packages. Its all about the bees and the weather. Get...

Anyone who thinks the price of queens is to high needs to read the above statement to get a real grip on what the opportunity costs of queen raising really entails.:eek: