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one other trick you can do, if weather is good set the frames with shb outside in the sun.. the larve and bettles will abaondon it in short order.....

why are the ants more of an issue???

What do you mean more like singles???
Understand the elavation thing and the snow... you also have a "short winter" with lots of chances to break cluster and feed most of the winter, as well as an...

they were overwintered nucs. fianlally ready to put into hives..... very late attitude?? nope just read a different plans of yours all over the web, from side by side to over hives and so...

Comb honey for me is 15.00 a clean section, 12 for less than perfect... too bad and its cut and put in quart jars at 25.00 each

Ditto, just jammed with nurse bees one frame of pollen, 1 of honey and 2 brood, and as many young bees as you can jam in there. I set an empty nuc on top and use it as a funnel to get a few...

if you can extract it go ahead.... then let them use teh drawn comb and you can feed it back come fall after you have taken yours....

depends on how much you have and how well you market it... personly I think your way to cheap on the 24 and quarts.......if your 5 for 12, you should be 10 for 24 and so on... don't lower your...

I am not a pallet fan with clips. personaly I like telascoping covers much better so my pallets are a bit wider to accomodate that. wish someone made clips for that.

Possible seems he either changes his methods a lot or his story.........

How many of your nucs take off well, and what ratio feed/bees are you using???

David, may not be typical for you, ...

yes, what is your failure?? never had too many nurse bees be a problem??? to few. but not to many......

The workers will tear down unviable cells or dead queens....... not sure whats coing on in yours, but when a queen hatches there will be a perfect round hole on the end and they usualy leave them...

wasn't pointing any fingers! just noteing that those clowns who claim CCD every year would also always be the first to call the insurance man.....

typical problem I see with overwintered nucs.........Just finished checking 60 hives half nucs, half packages all set may 19. Packages have more comb drawn, other than that hard to tell the...

Yes I have several... ups and downs... dont like the bottoms covers must be weighted. entrances are hard to control (too long and small) hives seem to hold up well (mine are about 4 years old)...

Lot of misreading here.... first I said Mike winters in divided deeps on top other colonies.. didn't say one way or the other about how strong the base colonies are.....

If you start a package...

And the HIGH probibility of fraud... very little difference between CCD and PPB....

I had the same issues, state farm and FB blow me off.. Shelter says no problem.

Fred, if your not getting honey out of packages your doing it wrong. put them on 5-6 frames of drawn comb to start, and you will get splits and honey out of 75% of them.

your sooooo right...

Gaurdstar.

In my expernce its a odds thing. more nuc/ queens gives you more chances of good queens come spring. I find in all overwintered hives about 30% will NOT take off and grow like we want. many guys...

You need to watch more mythbusters... unless buster is blown up smashed or otherwise put in mortal danger, it won't cut it.... might get Jamie on the sting issues,, but hive color and such are...

well didn't mean to hyjack his thread....... Rain washes away nectar so it creates a temp shortage. I hadn't thought about why they washboard, I thought I heard or read somewhere that it was...

I have tried 100 times to upload pics every time it fails. email me at gm_charlieat frontier.com and I will send you a pic. 2 3/8 shims with what some would call a landing board on both ends. ...

What about nitrogen flooding?? its cheap and avalible at any welding store. if suffocation is the goal wouldn't that work??