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Hey y'all, it is Feb 22-2013 and the bees have a FULL med super on top. They will not use the patties I add and will not use the 1x1 at all. The honey is VERY dark and tastes like medicine. Is this...

wow, all those replies and nobody answered your question .

"What is the best brand of mite treatment. Maybe one with the least impact??? Organic??? "
may be DDT?

http://www.apiservices.com/articles/us/mineral_oil.htm

increased?

WW, stupid is the kindest thing i have called them this season. lol i think they are given too much credit. there are guy's at the beekeepers meetings that call them "girls and gal's" LOL!
thanks, o

hey yall,
only one hive of the 4 had brood. i did not look for queens other than look for brood. they did not sound queenless.
i took off the empty supers and left only 1 on each hive, (less area...

I have 4 hives in nor cal (sonoma county) and when i last checked them on sept. 20 12 they had at least one med super with at least 7 frames of honey on each, some had 2 or 3 supers.
I checked them...

BT, In North Marin county not far from 101, there are A LOT of assorted nut trees that are in everybody's yards fields and just growing in random places all over Novato. I have seen a lot of the...

hey D,
I meant deep box.
http://humbleabodesinc.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1&products_id=3
if you use this to HUMBLE ABODE INC you will see that the 9 1/2 budget boxes are $9.35. ...

As far as building hives goes, it is FAR cheaper to buy them than to build them. I built 2 hives using new wood that I bought from Home Depot and it cost about $40. You can buy unassembled hives from...

did you happen to order from a place in South Georgia ? Day 4 for me and today is Saturday.
If there is perfect weather, attendant bees and the drivers don't stack TV's on top of your queen. The...

MSD,
Were you happy with the queens that you got from California?
I live in NOR Cal and bought 6 packages and they ALL had bad queens. I was told that I should 'give them a month....'
I got them...

try using a piece of nylons and a rubber band. works fine cheap fast and easy.
Good luck, otto

Too bad there in no room for a proper feeder?

OK say they have a lot of mites, how can I bring the mite level down? Powdered sugar? o

I dumped all the bees out of the hive except what were in and on the frame feeder so I can get rid of them PDQ. I got a smallish swarm today so I will dump what is left of them and put the swarm in...

So, it is not the kind of virus where I would have to burn the hive and frames... good to know.
This colony is dead. So if there were any brood left in whatever is left in the frames, would it hatch...

I have a queenless drone hive that most of the bees inside have shriveled up wings and have trouble walking and flying.
This hive is a goner so to empty it I just took it apart frame by frame and...

Re: What to do weak hive with laying workers or drone laying queen?
>what does one do if all your colonies are one month old? I mean you can't pull out frames from young hives can you? ?
THANKS MB,...

SO easy,
what does one do if all your colonies are one month old? I mean you can't pull out frames from young hives can you? ?
re: There are few solutions as universal in their application and...

I have seen videos of a 2 man queen grafting operation where one guy is holding a shot glass size container of royal jelly and priming rows of cell cups while the other guy is grafting larvae into...

We are looking for 4 real Russian packages in driving distance of Marin County.
I have seen "Russian/Carnie, Russian/Yugo, Russian hybrid and stuff like this.
Anybody know where we can buy REAL...

Hi,
Thanks Fuzzy & scdw43 for the suggestions.
Speaking of ventilation, It was suggested by the bee store that I use tops that are are 1 1/6" plywood that have a screened opening in the back that...

I had 5 hives, 4 are dead. Some of the frames have dead larva in open cells and some sealed brood. There is sealed honey in a lot of the frames.
While it has been a wet winter here in NorCal it has...

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That sounds like a great idea. THANKS! otto

It was a joke dude
I got nothing but time. I'm in a prime swarm zone in Novato, CA so the bee don't cost too much. I bought 2 out of 5 at the bee store. 3 were free.

thanks, otto