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I have for the first time added a top enterance between brood boxes and queen excluder and was wondering about how much if any to reduce the bottom enterance. This is my first try with a top...

I have a two part question: 1) I have drawn foundation on deep frames as well as a limited supply of frames of pollen and honey/sugar water that are drawn and capped from a have that failed to...

I have used crimp wire foundation w/ 100% pure beeswax in all my hives to date, but was looking at the duragilt foundation and wondered if anyone would mind sharing their pros or cons on it vs crimp...

I have lost a couple of hives due to robbing this fall and was cleaning up the frames and equipment for next spring and had a couple questions: 1) how long do you need to leave frames in freezor to...

As you get older one seems to not remember what has been posted in past years. Ha Ha -- I was wondering if someone could enlighten me on what to do to prevent crystalization of 2:1 sugar water. I...

This is probably a dumb question but I was wondering if anyone had an educated guess as to how much weight a gallon of 2:1 feed would add to a brood box when feeding? Also on an eight frame 2-deep...

Question, how much lemon juice do you use per gallon of 2:1 feed? Thanks for the advise -- it sounds like a good way to go--the less chemicals the better.

I use a screened inner cover -- basically built on the design of a spacer with wire mesh stapled to the frame(spacer) and then I add an additional spacer to the four corners and middle making sure I...

I live about an hour drive NE from you, but the bees are now still working clover, cucumber blooms, melons, and corn. Sourwood has not bloomed yet as far as I know. So there may still be a flow...

Went out this morning to set in the cool morning air around 8AM and heard a buzz--looked at my aparies and saw hive #1 (a weak hive) and hive #2 (a strong hive) with alot of bees flying infront of...

Question since you seem to have been using the upper entrances for a number of years. When you hear that bees generally move up is there an issue of the queen staying in the one or two brood boxes...

I have always used queen excluders, but I continue to wonder if it's the best way with all the problems that it seems to present to the bees. I keep reading that the bees natural tendency is to move...

Hey Jim, thanks for the photo -- a couple of questions ... the small hole on the bottom brood box --is that a bottom enterance and does it have much activity? Do you switch to the upper enterance...

I would like comments of how those that use an upper hive enterance manage it. I have never used one, but have been thinking along that line. I use 2 Med 8-frame brood boxes and have a queen...

Yes, had the same problem ... I stapled screen wire to the top of the floats making sure the fit is good but not rubbing the sides where the floats hang up. This took care of the problem with...

Well Folks, I have heard from the lab and the state inspector told me it was nosema. I know a couple beekeepers had posted comments that it was a suspected cause. Here again in the classes I have...

No, I picked up the 2-packages on 3-31 and transported them by car (bees in trunk) for a 30-40 min trip back home. As noted in my post, the 2nd package of bees on 3-31 are doing good...no problems. ...

The bees were transported in the trunk of a car 3-31 for approx 30 min and 4-15 for approx 1.5 hrs. The 3-31 packages were installed as soon as I got back home. The 4-15 package was installed the...

The installation process was normal with the 3-31 package; there seemed to be more dead bees than normal on the bottom of the 4-15 package but not too excessive. As I have stated, the only thing...

Thanks again for the concern, no there was no unusual smell or coloration. Everything looked normal. I will post any poop from the lab when I hear from the inspector. Thanks again for the interest.

I didn't put it in my post, but this is my 3rd year of beekeeping and I have two healthy hives plus the new hive from 3-31. Thanks for the comments and plan on waiting to see what poop I can get...

Back on 3-31 I installed two packages of bees into 8 frame deeps w/ drawn comb/honey/pollen on frames which had been frozen and then stored in sealed containers. The thought was that it would save...

Sorry for the delay in responding -- crazy work schedule -- the package died out by 4-5-12. The number of dead bees grew each day since installation 3-31 and by 4-4 had blocked reduced enterance. ...

I used a hive top feeder w/ 1:1 sugar water and they started using it but as they got sicker stopped. -- Same 1:1 was used on 2nd hive with no problems.

This acutally is unfortunately a continuation of a previous post in reference to two packages installed March 31st. The sick hive actually died -- in five days. Bees never did much flying -- they...