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I too am a new beekeeper with a mix of foundationless and wax foundation. Several of the combs are being drawn 'fat' and some as dartslinger2 posted, off to the side. To make the comb guide we had...

Hmmm..thanks Cleo - that would be great if there is one on the way! Seeing as I had no equipment with me when I first saw all the activity around the hive, I hadn't climbed up to check how many bees...

I am a new beekeeper with two purchased nucs. For 'fun' I put out a swarm trap across town on my parent's property. I caught one swarm within a week and it's hived and doing well.

A week later...

My first year beekeeping too - I've been spraying my hands with the general essential oil recipe from here :...

Thanks Michael - I got your book for Christmas :)

Thanks Wayne for the link to Dennis' page - that looks pretty useful. Hope yours goes well this season.

WOW! Nice work.

Hope it works awesome for you, please do post back your findings!

Thanks everyone - just found these posts - not sure why they didn't appear when I searched prior to posting, guess I didn't know the right terms :)
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my thinking was horizontal for the spring/summer/fall to work it like a topbar hive (with foundationless frames) and then adjust the frames to a vertical lang in the fall preparations for winter. I...

thanks delber - any excuse for me to go watch them!! Curious what the 'fighter jet' ones are out and about for?? I saw lots of those a few days ago.

thanks. how do I tell if nectar is coming in? Pollen is obvious on their legs. I'll have to check with some local beekeepers as to what typical flow is like around here.

We're in our first season of beekeeping with two new nucs in langstroth hives, a mix of foundation/foundationless, all mediums. We are commercial orchardists and really enjoying the bees, we'd like...

Thanks - I removed the feeder today ( and that ladder comb was already full of brood). Moved the frames full of honey towards the outside, left the broodnest together in the middle. I'll leave them...

thanks Jadell- and I guess disregard the plethora of 'keep feeding until all the comb for winter boxes is drawn' advice?

Thanks for replying....here is a link to the pic http://thebxpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/may17_0253-470x260.jpg coming through the top of the feeder, or there is a video of it...

First off - thankyou to everyone who contributes here on this forum - you've kept me up WAY too late many nights reading so many neat things about bees :)

Now - we are first year beekeepers with...

Ok, so rather counter to the way I tend to over-research most things, I went ahead and nailed some 'slats' into my aforementioned 3" deep SBB. These slats are 1x3" pieces that leave a beespace...

Thankyou everyone! Seeing as I have the extra space there, and some time before my nucs arrive, I might just try adding a slatted rack, looks like a good idea. I appreciate all the input.

Thanks for the thought Dan....maybe I'll try one hive fixed to a 'bee space' and one not and see what happens. I was just worried that they might brace comb all the frames all the way down to the...

Thankyou for the reply. Will the problem then be brace comb, or the bee's ability to get up onto the frames? something else?

thanks

Hello - we have our first two nucs of bees arriving in a couple of weeks. My husband's grandfather kept bees for decades however upon his passing my father-in-law did not feed the bees one winter and...