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Welcome Robndixie, This is a great site and I have learned many things from just reading around. This is my first year and we just started using DE for the SHB in the last month and have done alot of...

We started with 8 swarms the end of March, of the 8 swarms 3 were very strong, 4 were ok, and 1 was very weak. All the hives started with 9 frames with foundation and 1 frame of pulled comb....

My bad wrong math... a table saw uses about 30 - 40 cent per hour so the saw would have to run for a straight hour for one frame to be constructed to raise the cost to 65 cent per frame, but your...

We build everything from the SBB to the outer cover and everything in between. As far as the frames go we use 2x4's that are planed down just a little and a table saw for the rest. we have almost 25...

I'm just over 200 miles as the crow flies, this is my first year so I have no past to compare with. We have 9 hives, the first ones we got back the end of March. They have had to pull all new comb...

Sid from Texas, where do I find the section about the four keys to successful beekeeping, I looked all over his website, guess I'm over looking it.

From what I have read only pkg can be moved into the state, meaning without comb. Maybe this has helped in someway. Not sure how other than entire set up colonies aren't coming into the state.

Robherc, that's pretty cool that all you really need to work with them is a veil, they sure do talk them up to being really rough.

sqkcrk, I think the article said something about them only being...

In the latest ABJ there was an article about partially africanized bees being found in TN, here is a link to the TN.gov article ( http://news.tn.gov/node/8656 ). In this article it states that they...

I looked closer at the queen and one of her front legs was missing. Is it coincidental that they kicked her out right after I inspected the hive or do you think they acted that quickly after I may...

Knowing my luck I have the first to enter the state, lol. They were already and aggressive hive.

No it wasn't marked, but none of my queens have been marked, unfortunately, just got the marking cage in this week, planning on marking them soon.

I had the weirdest thing happen this past weekend when I was doing an inspection. This hive has 2 brood boxes the upper only has about 4 frames pulled out and the bottom box is completely full. As I...

Standman, I think my dad was thinking about the same thing your going to be doing with the queen cells, that's a little advanced for me right now but he thinks he can do it. I'll update you as I go,...

WOW, and I thought I over built. lol Good job it should be there for a very long time.

I was wondering if anyone has ever tried this method of increasing the number of hives they have. I have not tried it yet and was just wanting others input and suggestions. Here's the link to explain...

Thanks everyone hope to see y'all around.

What's up y'all, my dad and I have decided to get some bees and done some horse-trading for some swarms 8 to be exact, just waiting on the to swarms now. Any ideas on how to get them to pull comb...