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Most people will say that if it doesn't breathe, its not a good idea. I'd agree with that, but I have seen fiberglass hives and someone on here talked about making some aluminum hives that worked...

I lined mine with old window screen and then scrunched an extra piece of #8 down inside it. Not nearly as pretty as these, but very functional.

Sweet clover is a biennial meaning you won't get any blooms the first year. It also has high levels of coumaphos, or something like that. It is an anti clotting agent that can be dangerous for...

I started out making box joints. After that batch, I did ship lap rabbet joints. To me it was super easy after the hassle of box joints. I have double deep hives that have one box joined super and...

Why take them apart before the move? Then you have more pieces to deal with. Sounds like they are all stuck together now. Depending on distance you just need to block the entrance and go. For short...

+1 for the above post. I've been production farming my whole life and it is eye opening to hear the theories and "knowledge" of those who haven't spent days on end with a hoe in their hand. Living in...

I got a package of MH last year. THey were incredibly slow to build up, produced no surplus and were more testy than my other hive I started later. However, on a 24 hour mite count, they had only 6...

I made 2 last year by ripping a 2x4 3/4" wide, sandwiching 3/4"x3/4" strips on top of that with number 8 hardware cloth between. a 1x4 across the front for a landing board and they were good to go....

Tim, I had those same questions when I got the email. You would think that with Kelleys and Dadant being in KY we might have a more of a bee lobby. But if I want to move bees from my old yard in KY...

I installed a package in April 2001. That hive is still going. Last summer my brother made some splits off of it. It went 5 or 6 years with abject neglect when I went to college and then moved across...

I grew up on a farm and a neighbor once gave us several dozen 5 gal pickle buckets. We filled them with water and left them in the summer sun to steep, then rinsed them with gas and still had a...

Sweet sorghum is harvested with a full mature seed head, a plant can't produce seed without blooming. Both types are harvested in the fall and would die off and not produce anything if left standing....

First off, there are two types of sorghum grown in this country. The vast majority would be grain sorghum or milo. The second is sweet sorghum which the syrup is made of. Their flowering processes...

I emailed Nick about getting a case of deeps and a case of mediums. He told what shipping would be but not price. Anyone know what single case of Pierco go for?

Tried honey without much success. Never tried yolk. I've been using lecithin, but not the granules. I got some liquid form for soap making that doesn't incorporate too well. Now I have some capsules...

If the study of bees is apiculture, would a bee scientist be an apiculturist? Could a bee keeper also be called that? Is there a minimum time or a number of hives you need to be a beekeeper? As in,...

I have been a bee haver for about 12 years and am working on being a keeper from now on. I have one Russian hive left from when I first started in college. Its ten years old and has had no treatment...

Wow, that really escalated there. Its always fun to watch these things play out. I'd love to throw my hat in the ring, as I know that I have real facts and not opinions, but this is a beekeeping...

Has anyone tried any other emulsifiers besides lecithin? I saw somewhere that Honey has been used, it just takes longer. Looking up emulsifiers, I saw that honey and egg yolk were two of the most...

Slight hijack; I noticed in dadant's catalog, I think, that they didn't recommend a division board feeder for new packages. I know there is a drowning risk, but what makes a new package more...