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From everything I have heard from the local people around here, you start feeding in the fall and quit feeding when they don't take it any more.

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. . . when your grandmother offers to knit a "hive cozy" for your bees because "winters are cold"

It did not used to work for me on Firefox, but as of today, it is working. I have usually been using chrome to get into the chat.

Was that a request or a theory?

I would happily do it.

I am just curious. . .

How many people on here can actually read and understand the paragraph posted above?

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Check out these guys. http://www.beesource.com/point-of-view/ed-dee-lusby/

They are in Tucson and have written some things on Southern Arizona beekeeping. I hear that they are nice people and...

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I am willing to concede that since I have not stuck a mite board under my hives, I do not know if the mites have been picked off and dropped, therefore, I see none on the bees.

Not quite. Hook...

Statement: I heard a while back that if bees make their own comb, they will make it smaller. This makes it harder for mites to reproduce, and it is more natural for the bees. Apparently, Ed and...

I have had them about 8 months, I got two Italian packages then requeened with a local Russian queen and a local Cougar-WSU (Sue Coby project) queen, both bred to Russian/WSU/Caucasian drones.

I...

I looked on their website. I cannot find anything saying that they sell that at all.

I know someone that had to put their potbelly pig down because it bit someone. There was a 16 year old boy that was trespassing on their property to fish their pond. The pig wanted the kid's bait...

The dish soap is taking the protective coating off the lids.

To sanitize your lids, put them in a saucepan with some water and have them at a rolling boil for 3-5 minutes.

To sterilize the...

I know what they look like. I have seen them in other hives. I have not seen any in mine. As for the vision check, I find it easier to see the eggs at the bottom of the cells with my glasses off...

I remember which way it goes because during the winter, if you heat up a space, the relative humidity goes down. That is why a lot of people stick tea kettles on top of their wood stoves to increase...

I am treatment free because I have never seen anything that would require treating. I have tested for mites and always come up with nothing. I assume this is because all the bees I have gotten have...

As for the local/mutt bees, I assume she is talking about http://www.wildernessbees.com/
I think for the 2-3 years for local queens, I think she means queens that she has made.

I was reading...

I would, in the spring, put on a couple of your boxes as supers, and treat it a bit like a bee tree. There is a nice visual that I cannot seem to get to post here, but it is in...

I made some medium boxes out of some left over 1/2" OSB I had. The outside measurements are the same as my commercially bought boxes and they fit 11 frames just fine. :lookout:

I was told to use...

Thank you, I just wanted to be sure.

You increase humidity in a hive with lower humidity outside of it by decreasing the amount of ventilation that the colony gets (It also helps if the temperature outside is cooler than inside). You...

There are a few things. They may have gotten too cold, died, and got cleaned out. If there were just eggs and no hatched brood, since it was away from the brood nest, they may have thought that...

*tries to draw a picture*

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