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I have three hives. On my strongest hive the bees are going like gangbusters. I have stacked 6 supers and they have filled them all. I am now out of empty supers and frames. Can I move an empty...

Last week I picked up a hive from a friend who who had been stung badly by his bees. The sting landed him in the hospital and I was landed with a new hive to add to my apiary.

So, here is the...

I have recently adopted a very strong hive froma friend. The brood chambers are made up of pireco frames. When I moved the hive onto my hive stand I found that the bottom board was reversed, that...

Pete, your suggestion to "consider removing the top cover and fastening
screen wire or plastic screen" is a very good one. I think that my plan
is to add an empty honey super with a screened top so...

Hello, I have to move a hive temporarily (for one day) while I do some landscape work. My plan is to screen up the entrance on a Friday evening, and add an empty super over the second brood chamber...

Hello all, it has been a warm winter here in Massachusetts. Yesterday it was warm and I opened the hive to see how my bees are doing. Inside the hive, on top of the inner cover, were a few (2-6)...

Here we go again....

I had quite a large quantity of bees flying outside the hive late last week. The temps here were around 50 degrees. I looked into the hive and a large quantity of dead bees had been blocking the...

I do have to say there were a few tips from "bee school" that have not fully been correct. I am grateful for the fact that there are many willing posters here that can give excellent advice.
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Arrggghh, the bee school said to place four Apistan strips in each of the brood chambers, two on the fourth frame and two on the eighth frame. So I placed four in each of the brood chambers. What...

Clay, I put them in the freezer because that was one of the suggestions from bee school. I think that it was meant to help kill off any mites that may be prsent. I was also told that camphor should...

I just extracted and have put the empty frames in a deep trash bag and then placed it into a freezer. How long do you keep the frames in the freezer? Then what?

George

Here in Massachusetts I am wondering about a few things. I have just removed my honey super and today I put in four apistan strips in each of the deep brood chambers. I am told that it is to late...

Clayton, is this what you had in mind for the mounting of a box on the outside of a barn? How is it that the bees do not go back into the original hive in the cavity of the wall?

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Clayton, I just found a section in Bees & Beekeeping by Eva Crane (page 166 & 167) that shows the set-up for collecting bees from inaccesible places. I'm going to read it thoroughly and report back....

Clay...thank you for the quick reply.

1. The minnow trap idea, I assume that I merely attach it flush to the outside of the hive with a bee escape inside so that the bees fly in but can not...

Clay...thank you for the quick reply.

1. The minnow trap idea, I assume that I merely attach it flush to the outside of the hive with a bee escape inside so that the bees fly in but can not...

I recently visited a barn that has a large hive of honeybees in a corner
wall. The bees are entering the hive from one corner in the morning, and
then in the afternoon as the sun moves, they enter...