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wax on white tile turns black after a while cause of dirt and stuff..

was melting some wax in the kitchen and accidentally spilled some on the floor... anything dissolve beeswax so i can remove it?

I have a hive in the walls of a two story old farm house...about ceiling high on the second floor... Can't get them from the outside cause there isn't brick fireplace on the outside...


So I...

I have two hives that i put on apivar. Bee friend came over to help me move the boxes cause im trying to reduce their workforce before i requeen them (They're evil).. but they're on apivar for...

wanna talk basic bee IPM...

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yeah.. those.. just didnt have a lot and dont order often...

brown cell cups,,,


do you throw em away after one use or can u clean the wax out of them somehow or ?

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I received a call today from a guy who has two EASY removals... one is a hive on a branch, 20 feet off the ground... it's not a swarm.. it has comb and everyhting... he even has a lift for u to...

my best hive is a 2 deep.. got tons of bees.. so many that they have swarm cells capped... and it's november... so should i squish em or try for a split or put an excluter on top and keep the queen...

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anyone know if small bar molds exist that are silicone and u can twist out and are more durable? I think the plastic stiff ones would not work as well...

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I did a cutout last week that got about 70 lbs of honey.. I've done cutouts twice to three...

i dont have any queen cells to rob Royal jelly from, and am trying to play around with grafting... I tried several times last year but i think they're drying out too fast and dont have enough rj to...

k... just wasn't' sure what was going to hold the cell to the bars... that makes sense...

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i'm gonna try to do a bit of grafting in a week or so... gonna make some queen cups the fbm way..

however... if i make the cups, and attach them to a bar, i'm sure i can cut them off the frame...

I have a couple of queen cells on a frame. I also see several eggs in a couple of worker cells.... should i shake everyone off and let them find the way back or ?

and yes.. the hive is queen...

so what about putting my reverse swarm trap idea with a couple of queen lures?

somewhere maybe a hundred feet from the stand?

at least i have your attention.. :)

i was talking to a lady who owns a snow cone stand and she said she was trying to find a solution to their bee problem... seems everyone throws their mostly...

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no...its just that it's in a box i might need sometime in the fall.. but i'll leave it alone... funny...

I got about 75 bee boxes sitting around and i found a wasp nest in a stack..

should i spray the wasp nest even though it is in an empty beehive or something else?

so.. since my entrance is a slot that i use for 1/4 inch plywood to slide in and out of for my cloak board...

what is the minimum an entrance can be for a queen to get in and out of? Don't want to...

is a newly emerged queen much thicker in body size than a worker? i have a cloak board on top of a deep and it has an entrance above the slide door that worker bees can easily get in and out of..
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caught a swarm yesterday... put it in a 5 frame nuc and took it home... sealed up and a feeder added..

today i put a 10 frame deep, an excluder, and then another deep... opened up the nuc and...

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