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I've had that happen too. I caught and approx 7lb swarm and put them in a single deep. They stayed and worked good for three days then left while I was away catching a swarm for our bee club. I...

The way I'm reading it, he is putting cells in the mating nuc to hatch a new queen. If they are killing the newly hatched queen, doesn't that indicate that there is already a queen in the nuc?

Been a few years since i purchased packages, but all came with candy filled queen cages with at least 4 attendants in with the queen. I just purchased a queen from a beekeeper that lives 55 miles...

Not necessarily. Was the queen cage inside the package? If they were shipped together, the bees are already used to her.
Circus peanut candy is a good candy to use in a queen cage. The cage...

Just the way I do it, but I take the center three or four frames out of the brood box and dump them all in there. I leave the frames out for the rest of the day or overnight, then put them back in...

I used to do the hive on a ladder deal but had too many mishaps. I built a double 5-gallon bucket contraption that I will use now.

I cut a large circle out of the bottom of the two buckets and...

Do you know a machinist? He'll have a NPT tap at home!! Just remember, the size of a standard thread tap is WAY different than the size of pipe thread, and not just because of the taper. For...

That was just entirely too easy. There ought to be a law agin it! LOL

pull out the feeder and shake the bees out, put jar in, reinsert in entrance.

At our bee meeting last night, one of our members said he found on this forum where someone was using a 30% mix and it was working great for building comb. That would be about a 1/3 qt of sugar to 1...

Sledge hammer and splitting wedges work great.

Ever been on an asphalt or tar roof in the summertime?

That's why I like to use wax foundation in my brood boxes. Not going to extract those anyway.

Scroll the page all the way past all the other stuff to the very bottom of the page.

Did you click "save changes" at the bottom of the page?

To continue the species. Same as everything else on the planet.

Sounds like you did the best you could without a bee vac. The total ignorance among some government managers amazes me. I don't think common sense exists in government anymore.

I agree with Keth. Swarm traps should have frames that are transferable to the hive, whatever type of hive you have.

So dry here last year the only thing I got was a little persimmon honey. That was a different taste!

What I would do if I were absolutely sure there was no eggs or larva in the hive is transfer a frame from the queenright hive that has 1 to 3 day old eggs in it to the queenless hive. They can't...

Without a doubt, on a new package or swarm, use a closed bottom or solid bottom board. If you don't you run the risk of them ending up under the screen. I like to leave them on a closed bottom for a...

Now that the Insurance companies know he has bees in Houston, watch his liability Ins. go up. He can't win by trying to scam the Ins company. Any time there is a scam of an Ins. Co., the rest of us...

Yep, that is it. The 2-year life span fits also. I was clipping my neighbors property and found about a 10 foot circle of these. My bees were thick on the open blooms. I left them.

Michael, the...

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It gets as tall as 8' with the flower stem 18" or more long. My bees love it.

I never told my buddies where I picked up chicks! Pretty sure each drone has to find out for himself! LOL