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I feel your pain on the weather. Every time I think the weather has mellowed out I try something cool with the bees and the weather changes it's mind.

4/16 Rogers, AR

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Fayetteville AR 72701 I attempted to capture a swarm. When I got up to them they were all buzzing pretty loud and when I brushed them into my box they took for the sky. 15 minutes later there were...

Got my first swarm call of the year yesterday April 5th. In Prairie Grove AR I am guessing zone 6b as that is what zone I am in 45 min. away. The bees had landed on a sapling the day before and...

Seems like a good forum idea to me. I would bet more people are sideliners or aspire to be than are large scale or aspire to be.

Guess I need to go dig around in the hives once the weather warms back up. I have only peeked in them once a couple of weeks ago. I've been itching to check them out, but the weather doesn't seem...

I emailed them a while back and didn't get a response, but when I called they answered. So, you might want to abandon the email route and try the phone.

I've only been doing it this year, so things may be different after winter and after mites get a chance to set up shop. But, so far things have gone well. I started with two packages and a swarm. ...

Look up on the spot queen rearing.

In one of the Foxfire books it talks about beelining and one of the baits that it mentions is corn cobs soaked in urine...

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Here is the website for the Northwest Arkansas Beekeepers Association: https://sites.google.com/a/nwabeekeepers.com/www/
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What I am wanting to know is how much room (empty bars) do you guys try to keep in your top bar hives?

These are first year hives started from 3lb. Wolf Creek packages on March 31st.

Thanks for the info. I wasn't planning on doing anything now. I am just trying to wrap my brain around top bar management, and planning ahead so that I know when I need to do something.

I will steal some brood at some point when I obtain another queen. However, what I would like to know is something along the lines of... If you are up to the last three bars you should free up some...

I've got two Kenyan top bar hives made with Micheal Bush's top bar hive dimensions. I am now up 17 bars in one and 19 bars in the other out of about 32? available bars. At what point should I start...

Cool Pictures!

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Nice!

I bet she had fun!

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Nice looking hive!

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