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Anybody have any ideas... They've given the boot to hundreds I've seen but I'm sure it's a lot more than that. Here's some pix of them. They look like they've emerged early and a lot can't walk but...

This hive is from a trap-out that I had... I trapped out 2 deeps and a medium of bees and split one deep off to create this hive and requeened it with a purchased queen. Now the first of the brood...

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If they're hanging from a branch as opposed to clinging to the trunk of the tree a 5 gallon bucket on a really long pole has worked for me in the past... If you have access to any ladder and a 12'...

This happens to me every year... I live in the Sierra Nevada foothills and we have a short but intense nectar flow and when that slows down the bees can get pretty grouchy. Bees that just 2 weeks...

Have you seen the queen? If you haven't then you've got yourself a laying worker if you have then she's a drone layer but my guess would be laying worker. Had the same issue after a queen of mine...

I have two hives that are about 3 ft from each other... With the lousy amount of rain we had this year everything seemed to bloom at once with very little stagger which made swarm control difficult...

Thanks for the responses... I was really beginning to worry because they're real quick for their size and have the clubbed antennae and they're small enough that the bees don't even mess with them. ...

So once the larvae pupate and emerge they continue to grow much bigger? These things are so small they have no trouble crawling through my SBB.


My camera won't zoom in that close... I took a...

Hadn't had any confirmed SHB in my county until late last year so I don't know a whole bunch about them. I've read that they are usually between 4-7mm but I've found some type of real small beetle...

The biggest issue I have with them is when they're full of honey in late summer and into the fall they flex way to much which breaks the capping off the honey and squeezes some out. This flex...

Thanks for the reply Dan... I have a few on order with Randy already but they won't be available for about a month and this hive won't last that long.

Due to an emergency in one of my hives I need to purchase either a nuc or two or some frames of brood with nurse bees ASAP. I live in the foothills east of Sacramento at the 3000ft elevation and my...

95684 Somerset, CA Elevation of 2450ft.
1/7/2013
Manzanita

There are about 10 huge plants on a south facing slope that started blooming yesterday and this is about 4-5 weeks early for us. The...

I really don't at this point... I recently took 4 frames total out of 2 different hives(2 from each hive) to prop up a weaker hive and then had skunks come through my bee yard and really inflict...

Sorry for the confusion... Old queen has been laying and she stayed with the old hive, this (new)queen that swarmed had been in that same hive for about a month with the old one. The new queen had...

(Update) Hive swarmed yesterday with the newer queen... I was able to catch the swarm and ended up with a little less than 2 frames of bees and the queen that swarmed started laying immediately....

Called Koehnen a couple weeks ago and they were sold out of queens but Olivarez had some and they shipped them right out and so far she's turning out to be an excellent layer.

First a little history on this hive...

This hive was started the end of March 2012 from five frames I bought and included the existing queen from that hive. This hive grew like crazy to 2 deeps...

Out here in California we've used it as a "natural" alternative to control Japanese Beetle and White Grubs(June Beetle Larvae). It's done a decent job saving my lawn.

Let me preface this by saying I'm a first year beek.
All my hives were droneless about a month ago and it all started with this current dearth we're are in. This year has been tough because of the...

Thanks for the responses!

I have 1 double deep hive that currently has all of its brood and 99% of its honey and pollen in the top deep, the bottom deep is almost completely unused now. They are currently back filling the...

I have a hive that just swarmed for the 5th time this year... I tired of those genetics and want to combine with a 5 frame nuc I made from a split about a 1.5 months ago.

I love the queen in...

I second that guess... Had the exact same thing happen to me earlier this year.