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I've been keeping 3 years now.. last sting I got was to the forehead for flipping one out of my hair...

I thought I'd learned my lesson.... well this morning I walked near a hive and had something...

After the hurricane, I was called to a friends house to recover a section of oak that had a hive in it. We loaded up the six foot long 24" diameter section of oak and hauled it to the house and set...

No problem Tia...Thanks for the Clarification!

We ended up with some decent deep frames of honey out of our strong hive... though we are considering leaving it all for them for the winter... we...

We are having a horridly dry summer resulting in low nectar output and a prolonged dearth. A recommendation to feed was passed and we were already on the ball for that. But my question revolves...

We are having the same issue. They dont' want to seem to draw out the comb in the shallow be are content with the 10 frames in the deeps being fully draw, and slammed full of honey, pollen, and...

Thanks! I appreciate the input.

This year we started 3 new hives. One of which lost it's queen about six to eight weeks after introduction. Through some ups and downs we now have a laying queen, but in the interm here is what we...

You don't' need to kill him to get the point across.. However, a load of #8's (skeet shot) in his rear quarter panel will light him up enough to not want to come back around. This is a proven method...

SHB larva will crawl a good ways to hit the dirt... thats what I read in a search to my question about using crushed concrete under the hives.

Will they get enough direct sunlight in that setup?

I hived 3 at the same time this year from packages.. 2 of the 3 are still only at 3 frames, the 3rd is on it's second deep. If this keeps up I am going to have to move a frame of brood from the...

First thing to understand about bears.. there is no such thing as "Bear Proof" They are among the most mischievous and destructive forces on the planet. The mind of an 8 y/o and the strength of 15...

We hived 3 packages about the same time as you... one of them has filled out a deep and we'll add another tomorrow. The other two are draggin butt! They've only draw a few frames. Not sure what...

Isn't piping the method a newly hatched queen uses to find the others and kill them?

My mother makes ( and will sometimes sell) a paste that I use. When i get hit, I put that paste on the bite, and with in 30 seconds the sting is gone, and swelling is minimized. Next day the sting...

35 frames of brood? Sounds like another swarm on th way!

I set it with the hole facing up... easier to keep the lid on it that way until you are ready to remove it.

I can't take credit for figuring this out.. it was shown at our association meeting...

You could Not Shake them in....

lot less crossing when you don't shake them in.

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My mentor has told me many times.. a hive that swarms will do it again in 14 days... you can either split the remaining ones or loose both the swarm and the original. Splitting is more controlled. ...

Juli,

Try it this way next time. . Total install time for a package is under 10 mins--closer to five if you are organized and have the process down.

You pop the top and remove teh queen and can...

I tried a different method of hiving the bees this year that works fantastic.... way better than shaking.. Total install time for a package is under 10 mins--closer to five if you are organized and...

Know where a fella could find some? I was told that Lavender is finiky and difficult to grow in our area.

We used a different method of installing the packages this year... went way better than shaking...

It involves putting the queen in as you normally would, and then setting the cage inside the hive...

Thanks for the input.. I'll start feeding again tonight.

Thanks for the advice!

We feed them for the first three to four weeks. They stopped taking the food though, so we thought that it was time to take it off. I guess that's where we went wrong.
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We shook a new box of bees into a new hive the last weekend in May. I've checked on them periodically and in late June/early July we combined them with a swarm we'd captured.

Here it is the...