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Great Tip!! I will be sure to try that this year. You don't know how grateful I am for that tip.....

Andy,

If I ever come up to your neck of the woods and we do some removals together, no worries, I have a scope. Its a nice one, no batteries and connects with a USB to a laptop.

-LJ

This has been my best year yet, I did 20 bee removals. I've found that adding a new queen after every cutout is a good insurance policy. Had pretty good survival rates, until the mites got some of...

Well, I appreciate the insights by all. I'm open to the possibilities. The title of this thread is "2012 Dieback Already" does this mean that I shouldn't post here and I should shut up and go to the...

Dan,
Its even sadder that you only see one possible reason for losses of bees. Are you employed by monsanto or bayer? Get real man, mites are not the only reason my hives died. OK, I'll give you a...

LSPender, I totally agree with this. This summer a saw a few bees, here and there, with deformed wings in a hive or 2 of mine. My understanding is that there is a varroa presence then but the effects...

haha, good point!

Wow, cool! Sounds like a good time. Hope you brought some citrus from Florida. :)

Roger said it, Its not even that cold yet. I just fired up my woodstove today! Toughen up, grow a beard and come on up to say hello.

Hey Wes,

Good to see another cheesehead!

-Little John

Ziva, Paint it and it will be fine. Most U.S. bee boxes are made of pine. No big deal. Once you have it you'll have a template and any local woodworker can replicate it. Maybe you could use some red...

Recently I talked to a friend who's a nurse practitioner. She's able to write scripts. She called in a script for an epi pen that I had asked for. You have to buy them in sets of 2...ok fine. I...

I'm looking to buy old editions of American Bee Journal or Bee Culture, Maybe others. Complete years or large lots prefered. I have quite a lot of doubles so if someone is open to trading just let me...

Fiberglass is good. As for the logistics of the site, we might need some pics to be of better help.

Oh yea Palmetto bugs, didn't someone just die in FL from eating those? Anyway, you're right that the comb will be attractive to a whole list of other critters. FL has no shortage of roaches and they...

I've tried greatstuff foam with bees, they chew right through it.

Wow, what a tough job. Whatever you do, once the bees are out you're going to have to do a really good job plugging up that hole. The comb inside will attract stray swarms indefinitely. It sounds...

Hope you saved that branch after the bees were removed! A great science class example, better than a paper wasp nest!

Wow, looks like you did well with the log! I'm sad to hear that they got away. I agree that the log is a good trap for spring time.

Hi Andy, Sounds like bees fighting with robbers to me too. Lots of hungry bees out there right before winter sets in.

Sometimes when the vac pressure is up to high you can rupture the bees honey stomachs and they will be a real sticky mess in the bottom of your vac. I'm guessing that what happened to you here. If...

I would take that tank home to my bee yard and insulate it for winter. Then you can hope for the best and do the trapout in spring. If they're all dead in spring you have some free wax and some scrap...

Hey Cool, congrats! Hope you've started a scrapbook. I was in my local paper for another one of my hobbies not long ago as well. Funny I had old friends look me up and congratulate me for being in...

What you have here is a bee tree or an established hive, not a swarm. Looks like at least one of them is in a Madrone tree, thats some pretty hard wood. If you can just take the logs home and put a...

I'd like to hear an answer to this one too. I've washed my gloves in the washer and my 2XL gloves are now so tight that I can barely fit into them.