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When moving the cell bar frame from starter to finisher, it is okay to leave all the bees on it, or should they be removed?

I would think more bees in the finisher wouldn't be bad to have, but...

I pulled supers from one yard today I slid them into the bed of my truck, closed the fiberglass toneau cover and made a few stops on the way home. Coming out of the grocery, store I noticed a few...

Is it worth it to not have insurance? How many here have ever been taken to court for their honey?

I don't have any insurance now to cover my honey sales and should have a ~500 lbs to sell...

Rubbermaid's Brute, found on the link above, are food-grade and they are sold as "trash containers". I know home winemakers use them for a cheap primary fermenter sometimes. I know Lowes carries...

Hmmm...

Got an item number, Mark? All I see in the book for plastic is the 5-gallon size.

Dr Wyatt Mangum had one at EAS 2010 that he wove together from reeds and (I think) single strands of telephone wire. Pretty neat and fully functional.

He runs hundreds of TBHs for commercial...

I've outgrown the standard 5-gallon bottling bucket, but don't have the cash to spend on a fancy SST store-bought tank. I'd like to move up to ~15-gallon bottling/settling tank and I thought if I...

Thank you :thumbsup: I may try this, but with a longer tube to reach through blue foam board insulation.

I'd like to know, too. I tried this set-up once and found the bees couldn't reach the lid.

I happended to catch that episode last summer when we had stopped at a hotel for the night. We were on the way home from, of all places, the EAS conference!

One positive to it was that it...

You can do whatever you want to, Ace.

You asked how a two-man lift was made, and I told you.

Nor can I.

What I can picture is two people approaching a box from opposite corners, then reaching down and grabbing a handhold.

Two-man lift.

You measure it by filling it. 1 lb jars hold 1 lb of honey. Weight is required on the label in the bottom 1/3.

Once the Sebrights figured out what as under the cappings, they loved them. The less developed brood was favored over the older.

Yes: don't do it. Read what Mike has to say on post#12.

An alternative would be to cut a notch in the front rim of the inner cover.

For as often as I've seen that method recommended, I've had little success with it. The bees either ignore it or fill it with nectar. I have had good results once by putting a super of capped honey...

I stand corrected, bad cut and paste on my part. That one, does in fact, read 'toxic'.

Do you suppose you could provide a source to support this statement: "Based on the data sheets provided be...

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Fipronil was
also found to be highly toxic to honey bees

-- Highly toxic to bees,

Honeybee [toxicity] ratings are: (Very High)

The second link is for the generic MSDS for Fipronil

Queen cells are capped ~day 8. Queen emerges on ~day 16.

At his request, I used the farmers name so he can take it to the farm markets and sell it alongside his produce for me.

I did this last summer and had the same results as Jim. Drone comb was accessable, sugar dusting without removing supers and the queens were just fine.

While I didn't notice any great increase...

The goldenrod/aster bloom is a big sources of nectar here. I had one colony give me a full deep of this last fall. Nice flavor, but it seemed ...thick... difficult to extract. And it's quick to...

Yes, there is. It's called juglone and it's a poison to most plants. We have Juglans nigra (black walnut) in the back and it takes over everything in a short time. An old man once told me if you...