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I agree, last year was my first year with bees and I had one hive die(dec/jan) from what was probably a poor laying queen. I was going to replace her last september because There was little pollen...

thanks,!! I think I will add the wax in the melt. I also might just grade some in the vasoline stage. I will post how it went.

Does bees wax still maintain it's properties after reacting with the lye water ? I'm thinking of adding some
wax as an essential oil with almond oil during the vasolline stage. any thoughts ? ...

Due to glucose being very hard to find locally. Is there a substitute for glucose. Karo syrup no lonher contains hfcs. How about using honey? Any advise is, as always greatly appreciated !!

Maybe just place them in a cooler from walmart. it will get plenty cold during the winter in virginia to kill anything, and in the spring you have a cooler for the summer months.

Ive been putting in lemon juice to more closely resemble honey,but I'm not sure about the prescribed levels. After the bees take in our syrup dont they still avaporite it until it has the viscosity...

Thank's everybody and thanks for the link it explains a lot :thumbsup:

I'm sorry maybe I'm not making myself clear. There are bee keepers who believe matching the acidity of sugar syrup to the acidity of honey is a much more natural ph for the bees to consume.

My...

Not that I really no what I'm doing yet, but it seems that with all the recipes for sugar water it requires putting in vinegar or lemon juice. I think the recipe was based on the natural ph of honey...

Just something to add about the hives. Ive had one strong hive and one weak hive. The weak hive was not bringing in any pollen for atleast 3 to 4 weeks. While the strong hive was bringing it in...

Thanks for the replys !!!!!!

thanks for the replys guy's They are the same varieties of bees must be some pollen, the one hive is still bringing it in.

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Hi, I'm in my first year of bee keeping. I have 2 hives I have one hive that is still bringing in plenty of pollen and one that is bringing in zero pollen.

I checked for brood and it...

havent used the second box yet. I still want to see them comb up most of the box and fill them. I shuffled around some of the frames,today.
I'm going to put some new syrup in tomorrow. I would also...

thanks for the tips, I just got done checking my boxes (deeps) there are about 5 frames(each box) with comb the rest are undrawn. Looks like i will have some new bees soon.(with in a week)

I did...

Hi guys, This is my first year of bee keeping. I recieved 2 packages on april 29 and the flow was apparently on at the time.
Assuming that I want to feed during a dearth what are the signs that the...

Hi all, as I wait my surgery tomorrow (replace my acl with a strtand of my patella) I was thinking, in the future of using truck bed liner (rhino to paint on my hives. ...

ok thats what I was starting to think. I had to place a few untrimmed pieces to make everything fit snug on the ends. Thanks

Hi , Im trimming down my ml pf120 down to 1 1/4. Do I still want to leave frames 3/8 apart or the new spacing of 1/4 ?

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The reason that I wanted to go with all plastic frames is that recently I attended a seminar given by Debora Delaney, Assistant Professor Entomology & Wildlife Ecology at the University of Delaware....

I plan on getting two deeps and a med super. x 2/ I thought, all I would need is 20 hsc for my deeps and 10 meds for my super. I thought I read that you do not want to mix foundations and...

Thank You ! I'm not sure about getting any warped foundation.

Hi everybody, I'm new to all of this and I'm looking to set up 2 hives this spring. I already have an order for two packages of bees(4.9)
and I would like to place them into some hsc appropiate...

Along with the books I just registered for a 6 day class. I want to do this correctly from the get go.

cool !!