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  1. Re: we finally picked up our nucs yesterday :) advice ?

    thanks you for the advice Sir.

    But we decided to be as treatment free as possible. we feel that we will start off that way even if it is a slower growth for our beekeeping business here on the...
  2. Re: we finally picked up our nucs yesterday :) advice ?

    thats how my wife rolls hahahaha. God Bless Her :)
  3. Re: we finally picked up our nucs yesterday :) advice ?

    all awesome advice Grant !!!!!!!
    just the details i was looking for ... thanks soo much :)
  4. Re: we finally picked up our nucs yesterday :) advice ?

    oh. you should study the story of Milton Hershey.
  5. Re: we finally picked up our nucs yesterday :) advice ?

    our goals are long term. second year now and lovin it. just a simple question. why would you say "if you are still beekeeping "?
  6. Re: we finally picked up our nucs yesterday :) advice ?

    word up !
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  8. we finally picked up our nucs yesterday :) advice ?

    now how do we kick the girls into high gear ?
    it seems that the season hasnt even really started in my area (southeast kansas) because we are still having a cold winter. rain,low temps etc. and the...
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    Re: honey bees underground ?

    i havent found out yet. im still awaiting pictures to see whether or not we should drive out to checkem' out.
  10. Re: such a slowwwww colllllld start this spring :(

    how are your hives doing ? any production at all ? and we are in southeast kansas :)
  11. such a slowwwww colllllld start this spring :(

    yeah i just wanted to say that this season start in my area is sooo late and cold. just when we have a few days of warmth and the bees get to work....we get hit with a cold wet snap for a couple days...
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    Re: honey bees underground ?

    who are you talking to ?
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    Re: honey bees underground ?

    who are you talking to ?
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    Re: honey bees underground ?

    well they arent yellow jackets. the old guy definitely specified that he knows the difference and they are not YJ's. it has been very dry in our zone for quite awhile (SE Kansas) soo it may be...
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    honey bees underground ?

    i just recieved a call from a gentleman who believes he has honey bees underground on his property ? i am no expert soo if this happens i have never heard of it.

    he will be sending be pictures...
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    Re: how do we REALLY do a trapout ?

    thanks soo much. thankfully the hive is only in the next town...about 12 miles away (thats close for this rural area hahaha).
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    Re: how do we REALLY do a trapout ?

    thanks soo much guys. soo is trapping them out the best method in this case ? i really dont see any other way of removing them ya know.
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    how do we REALLY do a trapout ?

    i got a call to remove some bees from a 3 foot diameter tree on someones property. here are my thoughts:

    we will probably be doing a trapout due to it being in such a wide mulberry tree. we cant...
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    Re: thoughts on my swarm traps ?

    i totally agree buddy .

    this is the only trap that i got a picture of the inside before closing it up. the rest have medium frames. and as while i said i was going with an all medium 8 frame...
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    Re: thoughts on my swarm traps ?

    hahaha the funky crossbar is because they always fall out. i also dropped a couple pieces of old black comb in as well as some lemongrass oil.
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    Re: thoughts on my swarm traps ?

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  23. Re: Best way to make splits when your hives are full of bees?

    or you can always just all the frames in the second boxes into nucs. possibly 3 nucs worth of frames per brood box. seen it before. u need a second location but its very easy to do and u dont need to...
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    Re: Queen flight.

    :thumbsup:
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    thoughts on my swarm traps ?

    here is a couple pics of the swarm traps i made today.

    the first and ONLY trap i hung up (about the size of a nuc) made out of siding from a cutout we did....seems to have some attention the last...
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