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Watch the pollen sub starting the middle of April until October they are SHB magnets. It is hard to beat 1-1 sugar water for a new hive in the spring as they will be able to collect plenty of pollen.

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Western i believe that was a 25 # bag. unless you bought it for .27 a pound.

I've always used SBB open year around. I don't use chemicals treatments in my hives so the boards being open are not a problem. They are a lot cooler in the summer.

The bees will try to repair them but they usally don't do a good job.

Good luck, I have been told to look at the dead bees tounges if they are run out it is posion. Bees will collect sevin and feed it to larva. I lost a hive a couple years ago because of three 50 ft...

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Do you have a queen? Is there any honey in the hive? The bees will shut down the queen without feed. They will uncap and pull pupas out of the cells and eat them when they have nothing else.

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The longer the hive is open the more bees will boil out. Make your inspections as quick as possible in and out. If you see eggs and the bees have feed, do what you came to do and close them up. More...

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Wet bees will die quick in cold weather, but dry bees with enough feed will live in very cold weather, well below zero. Put a piece of 1" styrofoam between your telescoping cover and your inner cover...

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Welcome, feed,feed and more feed to the small hive, your summer is short.

Welcome, I have an uncle and a couple of cousins that live in Longmont.

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Honey is a super-saturated solution packed with natural sugars called glucose and fructose. Depending on the composition of the nectar from the flowers the bees are visiting, the taste...

I've heard that tomato juice is good for skunk spray. I have washed a dog in it and it seemed to help. That Bee Go is good stuff though.

Add a frame of eggs if the bees draw cells they don't have a queen. If they don't draw cells they have a queen. Five days or less and you have an answer either way. If I am doing a hive inspection...

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I have shaken, into a shaker box,the same marked queens as many as three times this season and they are still laying great.

Fly maggots, I had them in my trash can 40 years ago, years before SHB's.