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I have a hive that has gone a year with no chemicals...the only possible treatment would have been pulling the queen and...

Down the road neighbor planted couple hundred acres of canola. Are there issues with this crop also?

Should I be concerned?

Does any one sell bulk bees?

I've had hive covers for 5 years now and have not broken down with this Oklahoma heat. Biggest mistake is setting a hot smoker on them and of course you have to set something on them to keep from...

Yesterday was a weird day int the yard. First a swarm I actually think its to early for a swarm so I was interested in what might be some of the reasons for absconding? Next I had a hive balling a...

There's a guy with a web page selling blocks of sugar candy. Does anybody remember his name or web page. Thanks

The gentleman from Vermont talks about picking up the old queen and immediately replacing her with a new queen. He claims the secret is an egg laying queen.... they can tell the difference.

I've done some stupid things over the years. You know "stupid is as stupid does". The most recent was to throw the net off of a hundred boxes of bees that had just traveled 800 miles with no hood...

I have most of my hives slowly converting to foundationless some where close to a hundred give or take a couple dozen on any day. lol. I wanting to convert also to mediums but I had about 140 deeps...

Got my BT from Amazon .com works great on tomatoes also I'm wondering if you can apply it underneath your hives to control beetles?

I think there is a guy on here from Ohio says they have used the same cone for over a hundred years? That's a long time!

We're in the vending business... bees will come to anything sweet. I've seen them outside schools in trash cans by the hundreds. I've even dusted them to follow them. I've seen them outside snow cone...

Like my vending business I worked a second job to get started I started with two vending machines and now have two hundred.... I started with part time money and bought two beehives... now over...

So, do you believe yo maintain your diversity because of new feral stock moving into your area?

If the feral stock is not wanting to breed with their drones then they must be breeding with_____???...

If you believe there are only Africans in those areas on that map then I've got a couple of nice bridges to sell you. I believe there are full and percentage bees throughout this country. Nothing...

Made up several nucs on Saturday and Sunday. Came home yesterday to discover a VERY LARGE swarm on one of the nuc boxes. There were about 25 nucs made up and they picked the hardest one for them to...

Very nice looking girls and my vote was to go ahead and post your recipe

I was told the largest beek in the country uses nothing but plastic. I use it all even though I'm trying to go completly foundationless it takes time. You'll hear everything from don't mix the...

I just thought this frame looked funny?

Is this cell pointing up or down?

Just looking it appears current queen has a very poor pattern. (not able to tell without seeing more)
Anyone that told...

You can also spray sugar water on the frames and that will encourage them to start building comb

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I would like to go into winter with a lot of strong nucs?
When is to late to do such?
I have about 75 strong hives now and about 30 so so nucs
Still getting some rain but good flow won't last...

Who cares that many bees... order three queens and split those babies up. Let them do the work for 90 days until the new brood can take over,,, results three nice hives!!!! Still plenty of time where...

Are the some plants that produce honey that crystalizes faster than others? Or is that just myth?

I've seen posts with pollinators not wanting melon crops because they claim such?

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"some one went to tx bought an old tractor to restore and got home found bees got the inspector test showed there were afb."

The problem I have with this is did the start the tractor.... did they...