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I am in upper northwest TN about 15 miles form KY line. I caught a swarm yesterday and talked to another club member who caught one last week and knew of another one. I found swarm cells in one hive...

Jim Garrison told us at the TBA conference today that the 2013 HAS conference would be July 11-13 in Cookeville ,TN!

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This is a photo of the hives in one of my apiaries and since then I had to add another box to each hive. I think I have only had one...

David, Will your club consider overwintered nucs with a latter summer raised queen. I overwintered my first nucs this year and sold some to local people. I kept the rest to stock my mating nucs and...

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This is how I got a swarm a few days ago. One of my nucs swarmed and was about 4 ft off ground in a peach tree. I put a box up...

I take the back off and shake the bees into a hive. If they have comb with some eggs and brood I cut it out and rubber band into a empty frame. I use an empty hive body on top to act as a funnel and...

Gentlemen, I must say this has been one of the best discussions I have ever seen on the forums. It was kept very civil and mostly on topic. Very educational. Thank you.

Here is a link to a very handy tool for queen rearing. www.thebeeyard.org/queencalendar.pl?month=3&day=28&year=2012

In my experience with swarm traps that I have placed along my rural mail route that I can view daily, I have noticed a few bees checking them out nearly everyday. Then maybe even up to 2 or 3 weeks...

I would probably keep the syrup going to build comb. In my experience they might slack off of the syrup a little ,but seem to still take a considerable amount.

What are your observations about this current nectar flow? I am in Northwest TN and it seems everything has busted loose blooming at the same time. Locust is in full bloom and the tulip poplar...

The calendar may say March 14, but the temps and humidity we are getting are saying it is summer. They are responding to the conditions since they are probably heavily populated. I just hope the...

I am planning on selling a few overwintered 5 frame med nucs this year. These were made last summer with a later summer raised queens. I have pretty well decided to price them at $95.00. I think this...

Why not saw the deep frame end bars off to a medium size and then nail on a bottom piece. Put them back in towards outide of your medium and let them use the pollen.Get them back out when they are...

The only downside I saw was having to strap the hive and supers together with a ratchet strap and put fence posts against it to keep from possibly falling over from so many. I tried it once when I...

I must reply to some of the statements that have been made. The postal service does not operate on any tax money. It runs on its fees for postage. It is mandated by law to not make a profit, but...

i have been thinking about a power lift that I could use to lift hives or an indiviual super. Something compact that you could easily manuver around the bee yard, battery powered, hydraulic pump and...

I am planning to have at one of our meetings a photo slide show of our local plants when in bloom and photos of honeybees working those that I catch them on. I have taken a lot of photos during the...

Libhart, I had already planned on a term and jargon list with definitions to be part of the frst session and introduction. Glad you reinforced my thinking. We will cover the basics in 6-7 hours in...

That is a good list. I will use that as a check list to make sure we cover most of it. thanks

I am basically in charge of putting together our club's short course on beekeeping. We are 1 year old club and the first several meetings we held were dealing with the basics to get a lot of our...

I attended the fall conference this weekend. I spent most of friday in Walt Wright's sessions that he did about survial traits, swarm prevention and some checkerboarding. It was pretty neat for...

I will say that you will probably find some benefits to being registered. I have always registered my hives and last year Mike Studer, TN State Apiarist, called me out of the blue to see if I would...

I ran into something similar today. I have had a queen bank for 4 or 5 weeks now to hold the old queens from requeening my hives , just in case I needed to use one again. I had 8 or 9 queens in hair...

D Coates, I was wondering where you are located in Missouri. I am in upper Northwest TN and trying to figure out about overwintering 5 frame mediium nucs and 10 frame medium 2 compartment nucs.I am...