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Last weekend I sat out 3 buckets of comb scraps from a cutout for the bees to clean up. I noticed that maybe half the bees leaving went the opposite direction of my hives. I used thier direction of...

Sounds like its time for a motion activated wildlife camera, could be interesting...

Put a 3/4 rim with center divider like Rattlefield describes. Where you want an entrance drill two 3/8 holes an inch or so apart through the rim, clean out material between the holes. Mating nucs...

Bet you could smoke ribs with that!

So hot in Oklahoma that baby calves are chasing their mothers around trying to get back in!

GMO- genetically modified organism. Bees will collect sawdust for protein if pollen forage is scarce.

Ace is the place, looks like they have stores close to you...

Landing board= SHB land here

I've cut all my landing boards off. A bottom board slightly smaller than the hive body helps keep the rain out. I can still use a standard entrance reducer, and expect bottoms to last longer.
All...

Try your local coffee house that roasts their own, thats where I get mine.

Diesel be fine....:lpf:

Is the size of the queen cell the determining factor as to how large the queen will be?

I suspect the answer is nutrition, but obviously you can't raise giant queens from small cells.

Can the...

Scrapfe, the link in post #9 has photos of both types of clover.

http://www.honeybeesuite.com/monday-...rimson-clover/

Poppy, do you let the 4 frame nuc finish the cells or do you move them in to a finisher?

Maybe its revenge for all the bees that get eaten by the birds....

Has anyone ever tried a flat heat exchanger coil placed on top of the crytalized honey. As the honey melts the weight of the coil would keep it in contact with the solid core until it had worked its...

Nobody rolls'em anymore?

James give this a try...
http://www.permapicultura.com/English/reserves.aspx

Now thats migratory equipment!

This comb is for boneless honey....no ribs.

No kidding! I wish I had been there...well, at a distance.

Last week my brother noticed some digging under the slab of our farm shop. He grabbed his rubber boots, 22 rifle with 4 shells, and the garden hose. After a few minutes of irrigation, up came a head,...

The retired commercial beek that got me hooked on bees had prostate cancer, he is doing fine years after treatment.

I have a cord tied on my trap that will unhook the latch and then open the door. Always release near a tree line, thats the direction they will run.....well, most of the time. Don't try it in an open...

I'm sure he would use the beekeepers "secret weapon"......duct tape.