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First year beekeeper in East Lansing (originally from Flint...)

My TBH is doing great. We'll see once winter gets here. I'll be intersted in how Monty's bees do in the UP this winter...

Warre Store posted again on this subject:

I think the biggest myth in beekeeping is that "bees like to move up" when building their nest. This is absolutely false! Bees absolutely do NOT prefer to...

I have the queen cage, the plastic nasanov tube and a couple drops of lgo on paper towel in a zip lock baggie.... I hope it's not overkill. I've only read that too much lgo is detrimental...

it's not that high up, maybe 8 feet. Also, I put it up a month ago, seemed like a good location, but now that the leaves have come out, I'm wondering if it's too hidden. But I have so much scent...

Here's my Warre bait hive. Two Warre boxes, the bottom box doesn't have any top bars in it. If I get a swarm, I just have to unscrew the boxes and place the top box on my warre stand... very little...

The Warre Store posted this on their Facebook page...

Although your bees will likely build out the upper hive body in no time (often only a week or so), they will not immediately follow-up by...

Good to hear. I'm waiting for for them to start over here in the middle of the mitten...

Well, how did they do?

I'm expecting my first package in a week, your posts give me a good idea of what's to come...

Ok. I thought I'd read somewhere that you want to remove the queen cage, that it could confuse the bees due to scent and lead them to ball the actual queen or something....I'll probably take it out...

Sounds like a possibility... thanks.

I'm wondering is anyone has a simple way to make top bars to Warre's dimensions using nominal US lumber and no access to a table saw. I'm not as concerned about thickness, but width is where I'm...

I'm talking about a direct release.... the queen should be out of the cage immediately.

How long to you then wait to retrieve the queen cage? Five minutes, an hour, a day?

I'm interested in this concept. Could you put a traditional quilt above this, or would that just absorb the moisture and defeat the purpose? So you just top it with insulating foam board and place...