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I just cutout a hive today that was doing the same thing. I got two in the yard that are doing the same thing. I'm gonna kill the two queens in the yard and split them up for mating purposes. It...

No surprise to me. I had a queen last year that would lay on top of pollen stores hehe. Yea and the two larvae thing. I grafted two out of one cell the other day. Thought I was losin my brain. Pulled...

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I didn't notice one tooting. We got a constant ring of the cicadas hollering out here everyday. Sounds like a continual low pitched whistle.

The most gentle will be the ones you select yourself. There's degrees of gentle past letting you pet them at the entrance too. Some you can open the hive with no smoke and they will pour down on the...

I made this clip this mornin. It's 18 minutes long I know but I uncaged and released a virgin in it and showed one that was introduced the same way yesterday morning and is doing fine.

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About 10 last fall and 6 this spring so far. I'll be doing about 12-14 here in another week so I will then be able to yield a slightly better statistic.

I know hundreds and thousands tickle the...

I haven't noticed a size difference. Yet I didn't use the cell introduction method but just a few times.

After finding out it's so much more efficient to hatch them in a bank and direct release...

I understand that. You didn't start out completely foundationless with an empty box of frames either. If you had've. They would have equalized the ratio of drones to workers that they wanted. :)
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Yea they will even it out. If the hive has a drone frame or two then they will make workers. It's supply and demand. They want some say 1/3 drones which i have pretty much witnessed. The ones that i...

I cut a little lip in mine that is 3/16 high. They telescope over the lower box. They won't slide. Also the same size boxes i made out of 3/4 stuff for light honey supers will fit that groove...

Yea just about all established colonies in house walls are that size. 96x14x4 inches give or take a few. All of them i've cutout were within the 3500 to 4500 cubic inch range.

The first hives I built were 2x. I made 20 7 frame medium boxes and 20 supers. I'm thinkin about making more supers for them out of 2x and use those for winter hives. They are cheaper to build at a...

They might and then she might tear it down. Make a couple nucs and experiment with them. You'll learn more that way than asking around. (:

Grafting eggs sounds intrestin. If there's a way to do it...

I have painfully several times. I know for a fact that making them beg in is 100% safe as long as no brood has been rearranged the same day. I did kill one that way too, or they killed her.

The only ones that are going to stay are young nurse bees. All the older ones will go back home. Find a frame of emerging brood with a majority of young fuzzy looking workers on it and shake them in....

Yea requeen them and don't think twice about it. A few hitting your head is one thing but if they are intentionally trying to sting other places. That's just plain sewage in the gene pool.

Sit them out in the sun for a day or two. It will clarify too if the honey is cloudy.

So they could have easily died from lack of protein. It also takes equal weight pollen to bee to produce brood too so they say. So that's 10 full loads of pollen that have to come in per bee raised....

What did you find? I'm incredibly curious.

oh dear! At 2:30 AM? I was snoozin.

Did they have pollen stored? I think that's how so many hives are starving to death with plenty of sugar stored.

I installed five 'italian' packages from south georgia somewhere, yesterday and I know at least one queen was tiger striped like that.

It should be pretty safe to say that everything in the US is...

I started last spring foundationless. Never owned a piece of it. One of the first things i learned when having bees in a 10 frame medium single is they build up fast up to the 6 to 7th frame and slow...

why not knock another hive together right quick and move the queen and about 1/3 of the brood frames to the other hive and a storage frame or two?

Then the other will raise a queen. Done deal....

I had to do some diggin the other day to figure it out too. The tan/greenish pollen is red maple. The fire engine red pollen is dead nettle. Then every now and then I have seen some fiery orange...