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You do not need or want a second box yet.

You are not necessarily queenless. Do you see any eggs? How good are you at queen spotting? You might have a virgin or just mated queen not yet laying. Is there larva in the Queen cells?

You might have better luck if you give them a frame of open brood each week for a couple of weeks first.

In our county, the appraiser has said you need 6 hives up to 10 acres and one hive per half acre after that. I think a hive per half acre is a bit too much, but at least you have a guide.

Just leave out the queen excluder and run unlimited brood chamber. A lot of us run all mediums that way, or you can run a mix of mediums and deeps. The queen gets plenty of room to lay and when the...

I think you'll find quite a few beekeepers up there that get queens from Weaver. Do a search on this board.

My Ultrabreeze goes in the washing machine without the hood. Hang to dry.

More work than is necessary. All you need is a twig or a shim under one corner of the existing top.

They will move down when they need it.

Just slide them to the outside of the box.

$100 an hour when I do them (not much anymore) with a two hour minimum. I'm going to start charging for swarms ($50) because of gas prices and over half the time it's a tiny after swarm or they are...

I'll second the Ultrabreeze. I have requeened some really hot hives without a problem. You just have to trust it and keep going with 5000 bees on you.

Depends on how big you want to go. The 20 frame Dadant will do 20 deeps or 32 mediums.

foundation, any kind of foundation. And I still like my SBB.

Nice thought but you can't count on them staying requeened.

I just ordered my second Ultrabreeze. My first one is one of the original prototypes. It's still bee proof but its getting ragged and the elastic is shot. It's also filthy. I ordered the...

I've never sold anything in my life. I swear!

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You don't need them until you need them, and then it's too late. One good hot hive will make you appreciate that Ultrabreeze full suit. I don't work hives here without mine, not because they are...

That works great here by the time we extract. Our flow ends in June and the bees will clean an extractor in a flash.

If you have uncapped larva, you have had a queen in the lasts 10 days or so. I think you're fine.

The first year I kept bees I brush hogged around them all spring. They were small hives and there was usually a flow. I tried in August when the hives were bigger and no flow. I got 40 stings in...

Great for building nucs.

Actually, in nature bees work their way down. As the bees begin to fill the hive with nectar, they will push the queen back down. Once they have a honey cap above her, she won't cross it.

For the second year in a row Johnny has shipped quality queens in a timely manner with excellent communication. Last year I had 100% take on his queens and this year is looking like the same. The...