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I sell it at $80 per kilo excluding shipping. Do not be tricked with high price. This price is the average in the area. You might find $20 +/- but any more does not mean it is excellent. I produce...

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If I get a brix reading of 83, I know that this means 83 grams of sugar in 100 grams of sugar and honey.

How do I tell the sucrose% from this number? Normally sucrose contents would be...

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The reasons I want to know % sucrose is that I am intending to buy about 150kg of honey and I am looking for a quick way to find out if the bees were feeded sugar or...

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I am thinking of buying a Brix Refractometer. I knew that it gives sucrose in about 80%+- range.

My question is:

How can I convert this value to the actual sucrose % in honey. For...

I have three hives at home and four in the wild. The latter I keep with a beekeeper who owns 1000 colonies and I pay him $2.50 per hive per month.

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Thanks for the replies , but what does SMR queen mean?

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exactly two weeks ago I bought two bee packages and I hived them on the same day. I put empty frames and fed sugar as per normal procedure. Also, I hanged the queen cages as advised in all...

The story above is for one of the two hives, the other one is normal.

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exactly two weeks ago I bought two bee packages and I hived them on the same day. I put empty frames and fed sugar as per normal procedure. Also, I hanged the queen cage as advised in all...

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As I mentioned, I checked the hive ten days ago. I found three frames full of brood and very uniform. Probably one or two other frames with drone cells....

Today i had a look at one of my hives, I noticed many drones leaving and entering the hive. Is this normal?

The last time I checked this hive is ten days ago where everything was normal with three...

I have some hives in my backyard. There are not many flowers around but about 1.2 km away(air distance) there are a lot of flowering acacia trees. Will my bees able to travel this distance to these...

Bees are mentioned in Quran (Muslims Holy Book) in Part 14. There is a chapter in this part called the "Bees" chapter and in phrases number 68 and 69 which say:

68-[And your Lord inspired the...

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About two months ago I got stung on my head,next day my eye swelled. What's surprising me is that two weeks ago I got stung on my arm and the same eye swelled.

I got stung several times on...

I have four hives, recently I found it easier to put one big feeder a small distance from the four hives. This seems to work will as I find lot of bees use it and it is consumed quickly.

Is there...

I have four hives, one of them is from a swarm that I cought last April. The other two are packages that I bought last September, and the forth is also a package bought couple of weeks ago.

The...

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Check the above sites, they sell what is called "copularva" which is a queen...

Thanks for your replies, infact I also wonder how will the new queen be mated. I cold not see any drones in the existing colony.

The weather here is warm these days with temperatures in the high...

I have a hive with only two broo frames, each frame with very little scattered brood.

Is killing the queen will make the bees raise a new queen? Or, I have to take one brood frame into a nuc hive...

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Thanks for your replies, I just have a couple of questions:

1- How do the pollen and brood combs look like? I am afread I can not distinguish.

2-Is it easy to sew combs that are full of...

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I had a birdhouse hive occupied since last April. In a paln to upgrade , I removed the back end of the birdhouse (opposite to the entrance) and insert it into a Langstroth hive. A space for...

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Thanks for yor reply , I likd your idea , however , how to move the bees from the birdhouse to the new hive. Moreover , during the comp transfer operation , where the bees would wait?

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I got an idea , that is by putting two 9 1/2 inch deep hives on top of each other. The one on top will be furnished with frames while the lower one will be empty. I will...