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Rob, Joe Pye Weed is one of my most favourite plants in the garden. Our clump is about 5 years old, grows around 6-7' high and 5' wide, puts out huge flower heads that bloom for weeks, and you are...

For more and more specific information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echium

The plant Patterson's Curse is indeed an Echium, but is not E. vulgare but E. plantagineum. The Echium sold as garden...

You do not say if you are organic, biodynamic etc., but I am surprised that farms growing crops that are dependent on pollinators do not take control of that aspect of their business by running hives...

If you have access to all your traps, just combine any too-small swarms as you would a weak hive and a strong hive. I too have a limited trap area and can only visit every week, so will be setting up...

Not going compressor.

I do not mind putting together hive bodies with screws and drill, but nailing all the frames together by hand is a bit tedious.

I do not have compressed air lines in our garage workshop, so would...

You could also push them to swarm...that nasty old queen should take off, then you can quickly split everything or just remove the queen cells and pop in your new queen.

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odfrank, you gave me my belly laugh of the day!

Someone asked about Queen Juice...an unsavoury but useful product produced by taking euthanized queen bees and preserving them in food grade alcohol ie Everclear or vodka. The liquid preserves and...

Mike, I bow to your superior brilliance! I was planning to get some of those adaptors because I use the gorgeous Country Rubes bottom board setup. Never thought of flipping them and using them to fit...

I tried out the Ultimate Hive Cover last year and was really pleased with it. I loved it! But want to move to 8 frame equipment, and the UHC is only made for 10.

Has anyone made an adaptor to fit...

I am expanding a bit in 2013 and it is time to order my equipment.

I am thinking seriously of going to 8 frame mediums for all my hive bodies.

Before I commit myself, has anyone got any...

What do you mean by that?

I agree tulle is not an optimal bee veil choice, but if you use it, choose black as it is easier to see through.

Let me see...I meant it will take me a few years to breed up any kind of queens for myself, all that is available early season is Arataki, but in Canada I can find locally bred, "trying to select for...

Hello all, new beek asking typical new beek questions, and appreciative of advice.

I am making notes and plans for my 2013 season, in which I want to expand from 1 hive to 10. I have set up...

Adam, I recently asked one of our top bee researchers about numbers of wild honeybees left in the wild (Canada). I was surprised that no one has made that a topic of study, but in any case, in most...

Oops. That makes more sense! Thanks Rader!

Still, the nuc made 1/3 the honey of the parent hive. Not too shabby.

Squarepeg, I would have thought that your nuc with the original queen (which gave you 6 supers of honey) would have made less honey than the original hive (which gave you two supers).

What is the...

There is nothing like just keeping bees. Put an ad on Craigslist looking for someone who has the space and will buy all the stuff, but wants you to do the actual beekeeping. I am betting you will...

Sorry gentlemen, I do heartily disagree. Friction is a waste of energy, it just creates drag in the system.

There is no excuse for incivility or anger in a discussion of how to get our bees to a...

Thankyou Minz!

BTW, Solomon is right about letting nature take its course with the bees....as long as you have lots of hives and expect at least some to make it through the winter and the mites....

As a new beekeeper this year, I have been seriously taken aback by the quarreling and mean spirited exchanges that seem very common in beekeeping club meetings and online discussions. We are all in...

I have never seen bees in garbage here (btw all the alley bins are covered anyway), but then Vancouver is a fantastically green space. Even downtown there are tons of trees and shrubs, everyone has...