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Welcome John! Seems like the beekeeping world is full of conflicting advice, the best advice that I can give you is do a lot of research, join an association and attend meetings, talk to other...

I like the idea of painting the end grain with Tite Bond III (or even Gorilla glue) I would have never thought of that. I'm not sure if I'll buy more Mann Lake bottom boards though, I'm just not to...

I need to order about 10 solid bottom boards and really like Brushy Mountain's solid cyprus bottom boards however, shipping is killing me. So, I ordered a couple 10-frame solid bottom boards from...

Thanks for the responses, this is just my third year beekeeping and this is the first time that I've seen this. The combs came out of a hive that was practically dead, they were queenless and only...

I got behind on my inspections and apparently had a hive go queenless and now they're practically dead.......only about a cup full of bees left. This hive made it through last winter (barely) and...

I think there are too many variables (viscosity and temperature of the honey being extracted; shallow, medium or deep frames, crosswired or not, etc.) to determine minimum and maximum rpm to extract...

5/25/2012
Cross Lanes, WV

Got a call early this morning about a basketball sized swarm located on a split rail fence in a neighborhood about 5 miles away. I wasn't able to go look at it until...

If you hived them on the 5th, it's been right at 15 days, I would say that the queens could emerge any day now. Also, those appear to be supercedure cells so, for whatever reason, the colony has...

First year beekeeper with 14 hives......WOW! Welcome to the forum.

Can you flip your bottom board to give them a bigger entrance? Looks like you have a 3/8" entrance now - may give them a little more air flow and help them regulate the temperature better.

Capped what? Brood or honey? I'd scrape a cell or two open to see if there are pupa in them. The queen may have run out of room to lay. I would keep feeding and let them draw out the second...

I've never heard 6 inches a day, always heard 2-3 feet a day. I moved one hive about 20-25 feet earlier this summer, just stuffed a bunch of grass around the front entrance and stuck a big leafy...

Old Glory

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Excellent article, it would be nice to see more local newspapers do articles of this type.

It's in your signature - KNOWLEDGE :D

I read somewhere that doing something professionally for 10 years qualifies you as a expert in that field.

Question for any WV beekeepers out there, the forage map from NASA shows that the sourwood tree is prevalent in WV, do any of you know just how prevalent this tree is?

Just thought I'd share a few pics that I snapped while on lunch today.

http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg239/cfiggatt/Bees/IMG_0772.jpg...

Good thread, I "subscribed" to this one.

O.k., thanks again for all of the good information. These cells weren't capped yet and I could see a small egg in the bottom of each, I'll give them a week and check back to see what's going on. If...

I really appreciate the advice, no, not much drone brood at all. How can you tell the difference between swarm cells and supercedure cells? Are swarm cells on the bottoms of frames and supercedure...

I did a hive inspection a couple of days ago and noticed a few queen cells on the bottom of one frame and quite a bit of capped drone brood in the bottom right corner of one frame. I did see the...

Very cool that some of the "suites" are taking notice and trying to help.

Same here, rain, rain and more rain. This week we've had nights down into the 40's. I started four packages this year and am frustrated that they aren't coming along as good as they would if the...