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How much comb should I expect to get from feeding 2 gallons of 1/1 sugar syrup to a hive in a 10 frame deep full of bees?

caught a swarm and put the queen in a cage for a couple of days to give the bees time to get things ready for her? Would caging her also help keep the bees from leaving the hive?

I have a nuc I started on May 10 with 4 frames and a feeder. There are enough bees to cover two frames of brood and a few more running around. I removed the feeder today after they emptied it in...

Does the queen come and go daily for a few days or does she stay out then come back mated?

No help? Suggestions?

I have a hive that is 4 mediums right now. I need to add another box to it and I was wanting to go to a 2 deep setup for my brood chambers like my other hives. I want to add the deep to the bottom...

I have one hive that the bees are always on the landing board fighting. There is usually just a couple that I see but in the morning there will be 5 -10 dead bees on the ground. Its not robbing...

I had a similar situation except it was July in southeast Texas and the USPS put them in my mailbox which is in a group of boxes at the front of the subdivision. There was note on package to call me...

Do they have to be capped or does it not matter? once they start a queen they feel like they are queen right?

If a queenless hive is building queen cells and has capped queen cells do they think they are queen right? Would they kill an introduced mated queen?

So is it a waste of time to put extra wax on foundation?

Got a package April 6 and when I checked 3 days later to see if queen was released I found the bees balling her and killed her. I added a couple of frames with eggs and have not checked since. I...

I have a one deep hive right now I had been feeding 1/1 syrup which they have loaded up most of the frames with pollen and syrup because they have gone queenless. I'm going to stop feeding and give...

I believe I have that covered. The next super I wax I will use a roller and see if the bees work it any faster. Thanks for the response.

I know this is covered in the search but I have a specific question. I'm using a brush to paint on new wax to my foundation but I find that it is spread unevenly. When I start it kind of globs up...

Made the move. Will now wait a week and see how things are working out.

Thank guys! Gonna move forward with my plan:thumbsup:

I have a package I installed Saturday and saw the bees balling the queen yesterday. She was already crippled so I assume they finished her off thru out the night. I want to transfer a frame of eggs...

Are you sure it was'nt a ufo?

Johng wrote "installed 10 packages about two weeks ago and most have already took about 3gallons each. We still have a couple more weeks before we start to get a reliable flow. So they will probably...

Well, I installed them before we left this morning. First thing I did was take the caged queens to a queen right hive to see how they would respond to her. The queen right hive bees jump the caged...

I did a couple of splits yesterday and I was going to install caged queen that I picked up from Bee Weaver in Navasota. Well after travel and rain and waiting on my wife I ran out of daylight. I...

Which hive body goes to another yard, the one with the queen or the one without?

Also should I add another box on top for them to expand or should I wait?

Do I feed? They have plenty of...

Can I extract honey from new comb that was built on foundation and then turn around and use it for starting a new hive? Will the queen lay in it or ignore it? Do the worker bees have to modify it? ...

I second that!!:D