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I have gotten my hands on a couple hives that have not been treated for a couple years. I plan to go into them tomorrow and clean them up and was going to treat them with Apistan strips. I have never...

They will really start using honey in the next 8 weeks, you will want to keep a close eye onthem and will most likely have to start feeding very soon.

Thinking way back I think my 1st problems with pests were ants. In 7 years of beekeeping the only real other pests I have had were due to lack of getting entrance reducers on in time and having to...

I have been looking for an old set of platform scales to buy cheap and set a hive up on permanently so I can actually see weight increases in the hive.

I have a friend with a bad Europen Hornet problem. They are in a wall of his potting shed and he is looking for a solution. I am wondering if mixing a few tablespoons of sulfer tablets in my smoker...

Wait a week but you should be fine. I have done it that way several times.

I'm not sure that workers would start laying that soon after going queenless but I guess it is possible.

I'd split them and add a frame of eggs to the one that ends up queenless.

I have bees in a yard that one colony is in sun early and they are flying way before the other which is in morning shade. I'd say the ones in the sun work another 2 plus hours per day. At the end of...

You could also take some comb with eggs and rubber bad it into a frame for a hive so that if the queen does get killed or lost they will have eggs to raise a queen. Also a lot of times when you do a...

Hey Ben,

In auto repair we are looking for around 42 degrees out of the vent, depending on humidity and ambient temp. As far as a portable unit I think there will be other factors involded as to...

Wow! I would love to know what kind of camera they were taken with.

Just keep tilting the hives forward and getting a feel for how heavy they are. Then if they start to feel light you will want to start feeding. They will reaaly start going through the stores in...

The answer would depend on finances, if you have the money and would like 3 or more hives then order a package and do a split. You might end up with 3 hives, if the split goes bad you still have a...

I have several and I don't have anything good to say about them. I bought some hives from a guy and he has these on them. It's just a personal thing probably but I won't ever buy them.

They will move around if you get a warm spell, but I wonder if you should maybe reverse the boxes. I have never had it happen so I am not sure.

Sure go for it, just place a tree branch in front of it and you should not have a problem. The branch will help make them re orient.

If you capture a swarm you will have no problem putting it wherever you want. If you want to move an estabished hive a short distance it will help to stick a tree branch or something in front of the...

The key is not to spray it on something that is in bloom.

>The cost of a body + inner cover + outer cover + bottom board + time to modify and build it is equal to or even a little more than buying two complete pre-built 5-frame nucs.



I think of for...

I once pulled the top off 15 hives(all Italians) with no smoke to stick supers on. I made it through to the 15th and last one and they were on me like stink on you know what. Had more sting spots...

Sorry to hear that but don't get discourraged it happens.

That would be normal, but I guess could also be AHB's but not likely.

Timing is the key to not hurting honey yield. I have found that If I split around the 1st week of April here I do well with splits. I do it the less scientific way by moving 5 of the 10 frames to a...

Great looking USD, BBQ is my other passion besides beekeeping. I took it a step further last winter and turned it into a business which really took up a lot of my beekeeping time. I BBQ'd all but one...