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In November we had a statewide Natural Honey Challenge. Here are a couple of photos I snapped during the sorting of the honey. We had a couple of "water white" entries according to Jack's Scale, and...

Welcome! I would love to hear more about beekeeping in Turkey.

I am in Hawaii, so also different from mainland America.
I look forward to hearing more from you!

Congratulations and enjoy the meeting. I hope you will let us know how it goes!

I am in my first year as well and cant resist chiming in here too...

I was precisely where you are in terms of trying to get everything perfectly planned and decided, and while Michael Bush's...

Where I live, we all use screened bottom boards with oil traps and keep the hives in full sun as much as possible. But what is most critical is proper bee space, and making sure the bees can patrol...

I am new to all of this and just about to start my first batch of mead but just want to heartily support (and raise a glass to) your efforts!

I hope you will keep us posted.

Just wanted to say that so far, these bees are doing great!

They did not crosscomb, and I can now see comb through the window. Its really wonderful to be able to see them at work. I am going to...

Karen, welcome! Do you have something at the health food store called Bach Flowers Rescue Remedy. I have had very good luck with this spray, on the sting and a spritz on the tongue as well. I also...

That looks great. I have some homemade SBB with oil traps that I use, and just stapled a strip of screen to the back to give a little extra protection for the bees. they seem determined to get in...

Thanks Daniel!

I checked the window this morning, and did not see any cross comb. They were mostly not "awake" yet, still all in a big slab at the back of the hive, with a few making their way...

Thanks Ray!! I am really jazzed to have the TBH up. Its been sitting empty for months, I had one swarm leave it, and I had just last week asked a friend to put together a TBH nuc for me. But I...

Thanks Ray!! Yep, they are festooning. This morning they were looped all over the inside of the the thing...my daughter looked in and said they were doing monkey arms, LOL!

! I hope they are...

We are adding a kids activity area to our Harvest Festival display areas. We are having facepainting and some deep hive bodies to paint. We'll use the hive bodies in the apiary at the Extension...

Thanks Ted.

Not possible though. All my other hives are Langstroth on wax foundation. I didnt have anything I could put in there.

I just checked them, they really look to be entering the hive...

Today I placed my first swarm in a Top Bar hive. It has been two hours, its 1 PM now, and sunny.

I have successfully re-hived five various swarms into Langstroths, but this is my first TBH...

Welcome to you from Hawaii!! We also use Italian queens....:)
And do you have problems with pests in the hives?

Where in Northern italy are you?

Challenger do your SBB have oil trays? I know it seems like closing the barn door a bit late, but they are useful for drowning the beetles and the larvae that would otherwise make it to the ground to...

I have 4 who follow me down there, one is a small black smooth coat, and she has been stung. She is more careful now. My ridgeback mix is a bee chomper, but I do tell her NO when I see her looking...

I am learning too. And like you, trying to strike a balance between interfering too much or too little.
They taught me a lesson though, when I was inspecting and heard piping, I knew it was time to...

Zanna, this is what happened to me, so it can happen, though it is not common, apparently.

I split my hive and left the queen in Hive A, moved all the swarm cells and some brood and nursebees...

Most people here are using SBB with oil traps, yes, it is messy, costly, and yet also very effective at controlling SHB and mites as well. Beekeeping is so region-specific, but with SHB here now in...

Thats great news! Good luck with them, sounds like you have a great bunch of bees there.

I am so sorry. That is heartbreaking.
Will they be able to tell you what pesticide was used?

I am really sorry for your loss. That had to be tough to see.

What will he be spraying on the watermelon?