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I always wear a suit and veil, and the as soon as you get stung in the face, or right under your eye like I did, you also will wear at least a jacket and veil. When she got me under the eye, I...

put 1/4 hardware cloth over any opening into your hives, bee's can move in and out without any problem, mice cannot get in! I keep it on my hives year round

all my hives have screen bottom boards, I do not block them in winter. This season I have lost only 1 hive out of 10! THis is certainly not been the norm lately. Last spring I had 7 colonies die...

did you treat for mites before winter? I have seen SHB in my hives but I would think mites were more likely the culprit in wiping out your hives. Last year I did not do mite treatment and I lost 3...

Olivia. The cost to buy wooden is a little more than building your own. By the time you factor time, fuel, and effort I think it is cheaper to buy it all precut and just assemble. There are a few...

I have both full body and just the jacket, both have integrated veil. I like the full body cause no one is getting in, while wearing just my jacket I bent down to set a box on the ground, my jacket...

I have thought of that option, but there are so many toxic chemicals they deal with in their day to day activities that I hate to put more right outside their front door.

Keeping bees for pets? They are not exactly cudly...

I can cut behind and next to my hives with no problem, but I make sure I am going in a direction where the grass discahrge is away from the hive and also that the engine exhaust is away from the...

my hives are painted fun colors, reds, blue, green, yellow, purple. And of course my 3 year old grand daughter when I asked her what color her hive should bee, yup you guessed it pink! White hives...

I also am in the same boat, no divorce, but we sold our house and I have to move my bee's on Wednesday. My plan is basically the same, I will use ratchet straps to keep the hives together, I am...

you have to wonder how bee's survived for millions of years without humans showing them what is best. I believe in letting the bee's do what they do, I have faith that they can manage their own...

Delber.... My bees are also very calm, and I had the same mind set as you. Three years ago I was working the bees, everything was going great and one of the ladies decided I was no longer welcome...

That is cool and a fitting tribute!

mice can climb and squeeze through very small holes, I always block all my entrances with 1/4 hardware cloth, takes me just a few minutes and I know for sure no mice are getting in.

I use the 5 gallon bucket with 200,400,600 strainer. To keep the honey flowing thru a fast rate I do use a spatula to move wax cappings to the side, I also have a 60 watt light bulb in a clamp...

I hear you Dan! I pissed mine off royally the other day and I swear they followed back to the house and are waiting for me when I go out!

I know they remember by bee suit! They have been very testy the last few days as I have been removing honey supers, now I just go down there and if I have white on they will come out and meet me if...

Question for all the beek's in the drought stricken areas.

How is your honey this year? Taste wise. I am located in South eastern wisconsin and we had sever drought all summer long. I got about...

NIce, sounds like an awesome setup! I am in Slinger, WI and I have only 5 hives, but I pulled about 60lbs per hive. And I don't know about you but the honey I got this year seems to be better than...

you have 5 deep supers on each hive with only 6 frames in each super?

I got my firs sting of the season the other day, right on the middle finger. My entire hand swelled up, first time I have that kind of reaction to a sting

ground wasps are the meanest of the mean, just go over a colony with the lawnmower by mistake one time and you will agree. Best way to handle the ground wasps is a can of Raid foaming spray just...

I have this same style extractor that I purchased new for I think $250, you can also find them on Ebay. When things are galvanized they are coating the metal with Zinc, without a doubt there will be...

my extractor is manual as well and I did over 100 frames this year, not a big deal. The mear fact that you would even consider using WD-40 and acid to clean rust out of something that will be used...