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Brad Bee, I realized that they would probably bee drones because of no fertilization; on the other hand, the company offered to send a new queen free of charge, thank the Lord! I expect her...

thanks, the company offered to send a new one at no charge...and I didn't have enough new brood to give to the hive...

I have a question...I received a package of bees and I thought the queen was alive in her cage...installed the package on 5/9 and went in today to release the queen and she was dead in her cage. Can...

Welcome! Lot's of info here, and lot's to learn....have fun with your bee's..

Welcome from the Catskills!

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Agreed.

Gus, :)

I, too, purchased a package from BeeWeaver and Rweaver this year, one package is Buckfast....should get mine in about 2 weeks...up here in the Catskills it is still a little cold, and has been very...

Where did you get the Russians from? Thanks...Deb

Thanks for the info...

I am also getting two packages this year....I am hoping that using frames with wax and honey on them will help....what do you think of this?

Too funny! I dread what my stories will be.....:)

Hello to you from the chilly Catskills.....

I just heard a webinar on Brushy Mountain website featuring Dr. Larry Connor talking about this subject....contact Shane G. at Brushy Mountain, they are going to have the webinar on their site. It...

"I reckon you first have to decide which...natural or small cell.....they aren't the same."

Dan, I had bought frames and foundation and didn't realize that they were a smaller size than what I...

"Without a doubt, the pf100 series plastic frames are the way to go."

Can you have two different sized cells in one colony?

to RHALDRIGE...Hello and good evening...I live in upstate NY in the Catskills and tried beekeeping the first time last year and lost my hive to varroa in the Fall; I has purchased a NUC from a...

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Hi Andrew...I am new this year with one hive and lost all my bee's in september (did harvest some honey)...I ordered a package from Weaver of Buckfast; what kind did you order from them? I think I...

OK, so I should start with two nucs this spring? or three? being that my colony is lost this year and have to start over....what a great video; have to keep watching to gather all that info for my...

Hi DeeAnna, I just watched it in video form, did not download it. There is a lot of information there; I was trying to take notes, but i think watching it a few times AND notes will be better...and...

I used the check mite + for only 7 days, maybe 8 and only one strip...I did have 2 die-offs since I set my hive up the beginning of May; the first was in mid-June, a few hundred dead bee's outside my...

thank you!