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Sounds like they couldn't reach enought stores they can die with honey on the ends of the frames when it gets cold they tighten up and not being able to access stores.

When you see drones flying its warm enough for for queens mating flight

Soak in Alcohol for a few days then use a cotton swab

Reposing thought this might help

I use Mini Nucs

Hi Kevin

5% of your 80% mated and laying queens could be a bit more or less

and i will use these not so good queens that i wouldn't sell,and put them in my problem nuc that the workers are...

Hi Daniel Y do you raise very many queens i am just very small operation had about 400 mating nuc's last year.

The 80% i talked about was a combination of things
#1 I don't candle light queen...

I like to use the wide base plastic q cell cups
BLUE for vsh
GREEN for Russian
YELLOW for SunKist
I will leave these under the lid after hatch this way i know what race they are

100 Nuc's in...

The way it use to bee before the mites and beetles.
seen a 3 lb swarm put in a 10 frame hive with 9 deep frames and one feeder full of diluted down honey almost a gallon fill up 3 supers in spring...

9 3/8" for super shell with 3/4" Divider. If using 5 Quarter board for divider you might want 9 1/4" top bar

What might be best make up your supers with dividers and make sure you have them...

If using a standard box and dividing in 4 compartments cut the just a smidge under 9 3/8 long top Bar and 9 1/8 Deep end bar. That way you can just use a dressed 1" divider which is only 3/4" and...

Had a 10 frame deep cell starter/finisher placed in the 2nd graft of about 30 cells it had 2 cell bars capped 2 cell bars new grafted cells checked in 24 hrs all was great 27 started then in about...

Have seen them take flight when pulling out frame

When you check do it real early or way late so they are not out on a flight

The mating yards that are further away from your drone mother colonies is those the ones with low % turn out.

I seeing lower % turn out whith the more mating nuc's you keep in one place and there...

was Checking the mini mating nucs yesterday about 6 pm saw mating sign in the tail end of queen she got mated some time before 6 pm and it got 107 that day by that time it was still a 104

watch the entrances when you see drones coming and going this will be when they are mating and this will give you an idea what time of day. All hives with drones will have activity at about the same...

Is the feed getting to hot being on top of the hive?

Just feeding syrup will not make the queen lay a lot if they get good amounts of pollen she will increase brood production along with syrup...

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I would make a small divide out of the hive that has a laying queen and put in your ext queen because if the other hive has been queenless very lone it might not turn out. to introduce your queen in...

No matter the size of box the cell builder is, in it need lots of young nurse bees and pollen and honey here is a few pictures of a Mini Nuc Cell builder these are medium boxes I did not feed any...

Your heading ask how much wax in a drawn bee comb? I Read That there is Approx 2 1/2 lbs of bees wax in a 10 frame deep 9 1/8" frames = 40 oz of wax so there will bee about 4 oz of wax per frame 9...

when you are working your bees and find Queen cells collect a few and save them i will wrap a wet paper shop towel around them and put them in the freezer for later use.

once i get grafting...

Some time it depends what race of bees you have the Russians and the Carnolians are not bad.
Italians are another Story.

#1 Feed late evenings almost dark
# 2 When you see or think they are...

Queens have a pharmone its called queen substance it is passed around to the bees in the hive dont know how long it last, it's more than sioght or smell pharmone.

also they have a pharmone that is...

I have seen my maiting nucs have queen cells started the next day after pulling the queen, also i went into them knock off and EM queen cell because my grafted cells was not ready to place into the...