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To those of you that are having trouble starting from seed. I have had great success using jiffy peat pellets in their plastic "greenhouses" which are available from lowes and walmart. The peat...

My little " experiment" was building up a 10 frame nuc using 2 boxes. It took some work getting the nuc to make it's own queen this summer, but I eventually got great brood patterns and the queen...

Three of my hives seemed weak on stores to me around December 1st, so I fed them about 1.5-2 gallons of 2:1 sugar syrup. One hive that I checked today has a couple frames of capped brood. These hives...

I have noticed that three of my hives are rather light in stores and they may not even have a full deep hive body of honey. I have division board feeders in two hives and an empty super on the other...

I keep most of my hives at a blueberry/truck farmer. He had an amazing stand of crimson clover this spring. All he did was cut the grass in and around his blueberry rows, then seed the fall before.

But if you freeze the frames (zero degrees Fahrenheit I think) for 24 hours you kill SHM and waxmoth eggs, larvae, and adults. Then you'll need to seal up the super to prevent adults from re-laying...

I'm refering to their authorized dealers...none of the outlets are near me.

I'm sure some of you are aware that mann lake has authorized dealers in many states. I'm looking at getting an 18/9 frame hand crank extractor from mann lake, but shipping adds on $205 to the cost....

The 5 frame I made 2 days ago I set near other hives (a foot from one, but I flipped it around to face the opposite direction). The now 10 frame nuc (has lots of honey BTW, I had placed a frame of...

Hello all, I hope summer is proving productive for you. I've pulled 12 gallons of honey off so far with maybe 20 more gallons in supers I need to harvest.

I recently made a split for a queen I...

My plan is to leave the large bucket(s) on the bottling table and use them for settling honey before bottling. I'll still use 5 gallon buckets for moving honey and dumping into my larger "bottling"...

I was thinking of using a 7 or 7.8 gallon plastic pail for bottling my honey. Would these pails safely hold honey taking into account that it's more dense than water?
They are food grade.
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Just move them. I've moved a few hives this spring and just thrown branches in front of the entrances; sealed up the hive prior to moving. Those hives are doing well.

Roundup breaks down in the soil withing days of application, it's very safe.

I'm looking at getting a new extractor next year, or this Fall, I currently have a small 2 frame tangential that was given to me years ago. I now have 6 hives...and that means I can pull more than a...

Isn't SHB in most of the lower 48 now?

is your hive level side to side? The bees will draw comb straight down, if your frames aren't in line with that you can have a problem. FWIW my hives are less than 2 degrees from dead level and I...

FWIW I have 3 freeman traps and they are catching quite a number of beetles.

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Is freeman or Kelley using number 8?

Do it anyway and tell no one. Build a small fenced area (wooden privacy fence), place the hives in that.

I noticed on my foundation frames (which I cross wired); that the bees would chew out the foundation at the wire and make drone comb as they desired. I have 6 foundationless frames in a hive back...

I don't have access to a second site more than 2 miles away to move my splits or hives before I put them right where I want them. And I don't have time for it either, being in nursing school. I've...

The latches I use are zinc coated...more importantly, they have a spring on the latch and a metal collar that secures the latch to the eye hole. The coons (or whatever was bugging my hives) can't...

I have 3 of freeman's and like them.

They have ONE downside: varmints will open the trays up to get at the cooking oil. This has happened to all of mine, the darn thing even scratched the hive...

Do you think cross wiring and going slow with tangential extracting would work?