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I second checking your mite load. A quick way to tell is to pull a purple eyed drone larva from its capped cell, and count the number of mites that you find. Do this to 5 or 10 drones. If you average...

Ill give it a try Frank. There were no supercedure cells on the comb, these all came from the bottom of the frame hanging in typical swarm cell fashion. But I did notice there was not much brood and...

Well I was going to requeen this hive due to the queens performance issues , she has a terrible laying pattern, slow start this year. So with that said I will get a local Queen and hope they accept...

I was inspecting one of my hives today and found an emerging Queen from a swarm cell. there were several on the bottom of the frames so I caged her... my question is what do I do with her. I have not...

I do this kind of work at night with a rachet strap and a entrance screen. If you have to, make a tripod over the hive and hoist it up, do your work and set it back down. Dont forget to plug the top...

Good point that I overlooked. I will remove it ASAP. Thanks

Hi all, I am a 3rd year beekeeper from central Maine. I am running 2 hives and I have no mentor to check my work, so would the experienced keepers please check my work and critique it.
My hives are...

Hi and welcome,
IMO, I wouldn't do any splits until they have overwintered here in Maine. During the spring build-up of their 2nd year is when I would consider a split, unless you have two deep hive...

You will always get foamy little bubbles patches on the top, white ones are good... green or off color ones...not so much.

This is fine, but Easy Clean is a cleaner... so you want to take it one step further by using a sanitizer as well. Also with this product you must rinse..

Sanitize, sanitize, sanitize... Oh, and did I mention sanitize... The key to home brewing, cider making and wine making is a bacteria free environment for the yeast to do its job. Once you sanitize...

Stability: After reconstitution, suspensions retain their potency for 14
days at room temperature.
This was Taken from this PDF
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Terramycin can be found at any Tractor Supply. Most treatments have a lot number and an Expiration date printed on them. Terra is one year, so I would not go longer than that if it were me.

Well, that is a 10 pointer by Boone and Crocket or Pope and Young standards.

I kinda had to giggle when I read this thread. I did the same thing with my bottling bucket that had about a 1/4 cup of honey leftover. I laid it on its side so they could have safe access to the...

If Dan Rathers report in original post is having trouble try this one http://vimeo.com/29419200 or you can google "Bee Aware" by Dan Rather Sorry for inconvenience.

I'm sorry if my naming of the thread, in any way, indicated that you don't care for your bees. I assure you that was not my intent. I did not write this petition, if I had, there would be much more...

We petition the Obama administration to:
Have the EPA investigate systemic pesticides....

Yes here is an excerpt from MAQS instructions. "Outside daytime temperature highs should be between 50 - 92ºF on days of application."
I have used them and in the colder temps I think bee mortality...

Come on people... these pesticides are killing your bees. Dan Rather reported on them. Watch it here http://www.bouldercountybeekeepers.org/for-those-of-you-who-wanted-to-watch/ It takes 3 minutes...

The link you posted sends me to a bad request page. Could you fix it please? Thank you

Don't worry Jeff the difference between weight and volume is negligible. What I do is if I only want 1 gallon, I pour 5 lbs of sugar into a 1 gallon pail and with the sugar still in the pail stir in...

Thank you Erin, I am currently using the 1 gallon pails with the screen on them. the problem is that the lids do not have a gasket and I have had several leak all over the top board setting of a...

You are making 1:1 syrup. A gallon of water weighs 8.34 lbs. So to one gallon of water you will need 16 lbs. of sugar not 8 for 2:1. Just so ya know.

I'm just trying to avoid the pitfalls!!! I have seen threads about some hive-top feeders that were poorly designed and I would like to avoid them. I have searched for the topic, but the forums search...