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I never use gloves and I rarely get stung in the hands, only when I pinch someone by accident. It's all knowing what your doing and how to work em right. Some times those carni's get a little...

I check for mites by doing a quick scan visual and looking for deformed wing, checking drone brood, looking for mites on bottom board. the hive I was looking at was treated last spring or so. ...

I worked a hive today that was not touched in 10 months. They were a little out of order and required some definite tuning but they were good. Had very few/no mites. they did have signs of Sack...

Tulip Poplars. they provide a pretty nice honey crop.

I'd say its early. They'll find them

yeah, we stacked them on top for the rest of the way. the net held everything together nicely.

Na, no pay. I did end up catching a nuc full of bees that were left behind though.

I have no clue who loaded like that. but the driver didnt notice until it was too late.

Got a call around 9:00 this morning saying we got a tractor trailer of bees with a shifted load and they needed help. I suited up and headed over.

Who ever loaded the semi, made a mistake. ...

make them pay for all the equipt, bees, and your time, and your good. its a bee keeping service, there's money to be made if you dont mind the work

Im waiting on a dozen packages, from honey bee headquarters in NJ, its not his fault He's being pushed back by his supplier in GA. I not 100% on where he's getting them from down there.

I...

I know the weather has been poor in the south east. I was wondering how many are still waiting for their package order to make it north?

We are 3 weeks behind and still being pushed off.

that's the point, what i was trying to say was...if your bees are going to die due to a serious mite infestation, and related diseases. (sick). then knock down that mite population and save your...

Look at it this way. as was told to me by the head apiarist in my state.

If your dog gets sick and you take it to the vet and it needs medicine, do you treat it?

If your child gets sick and...

How do you know that they are 12 years old and not just swarmed into last year?

na, sometimes the outer frames get neglected, especially if they are hurting for food or under stress.

I trade bees for pollination on a small organic veg farm with hay fields (2 hives or however many I want to put there) for hunting rights on the property. not really the same situation as you but......

the hammer is coming down here in North NJ. pretty windy, and rainy. waiting for the trees to start dropping and taking out the power lines. All my hives are got cinderblocks on top and were moves...

Get Tim and Bob on the phone.


Sorry for your loss.

Just installed another 2 nucs and everything is going good... I think.


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poor little bee. hahahaha

very cool shot. Like a bullet from a gun

there were a few dead ones. like one hear and there. nothing serious. there was only like 50 bees left i dont even know if you would call that a swarm.

My buddy stopped me today to tell me that he was thinking about starting beekeeping and he had bees in his yard. He had a whole clump of them hanging out on the ground for the last week he wanted to...

I've been severely overwhelmed.... Thanks for all the advice... its gonna take me 2 months to read it all.

Thanks again.

- Al

Im an Eagle Scout. Troop 1 Mendham, the first nationally charted troop in the US.

I think that bee keeping merit badge would be very cool but it brings up the question of how would specific...

wow, Im a little over whelmed by all the responses. Thanks everybody I really appreciate the help.

right now I have a package of Italians installed 11 days ago, they have capped brood and...

I sent an e-mail to the state bee inspector saying that if they would be in the area would they mind stopping by and checking out my hive to make sure I was doing everything properly and that my hive...