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Some folks like to sprinkle on top of the telescoping cover and the bees will find it and consume it. That works as long as you put just enough for them to consume in a short period. The problem...

I am carrying 20 hives through the Winter. I bought a 1500 lb. tote of the Ultra Bee Dry Feed last Spring and split about 350lbs. of it with a local bee keeping club. The remainder I packed into...

I just bought a case of Thickster 14 mil. powdered latex gloves in XXL from Fox Run Tools. They are on sale. Pretty heavy duty and beefy gloves yet still provide very adequate feel.
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Back in May, I caught two swarms that I put into hives. During the heavy nectar flow. Both swarmed on me twice. I was very lucky and able to catch the swarms each time and the second time I...

No. Nothing I can point to as conclusive proof.

I would caution you to be very careful and watchful of your hives if you decide to do this. Perhaps not place all of your hives in the soy beans. Most soy beans are treated with clothianidin which...

Try putting out to pollen substitute dry feed. When the flow of pollen drops off, the queen will usually cut back on laying or stop althogether. I am feeding mine Mannlake Ultra Bee dry feed right...

I keep 3 deeps on all of my fully developed hives year round.

I am not debating whether the old guy is denial. It appears that his hives did likely have foul brood but the state handled the situation very badly.

I am a retired military aviator. Got war...

Thanks for posting the $50 "compensation". That is laughable. A good producing hive is worth about 8 times that amount. I will will be contacting my legislative representatives about this and...

Set the frames next to a big ant hill. They will clean it up pretty much clean and then you can clean and sterilize.

You might try adding some livestock mineral salt to the water. Such minerals and nutrients are very attractive to bees. If you live in a more rural setting, you will find that bees will frequently...

If you are going to treat for mites, I think it may be too late to use MAQS due to the warm temps. I realize that NOD says MAQS can be use between 50 -92 degrees but I think you will see some brood...

Doesn't really make much difference whether for supercedure or whatever. I am doing splits to make more colonies. I didn't realize you were using top bar hives. They can be very difficult to work...

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When doing splits, I have learned the hard way to ensure the each split gets at least 3 frames of brood along with frames of honey and pollen. I try to make the frames of brood a mix of capped,...

Last February, Max Wimmer from DK Seed Co. $149.95 plus $33 shipping to TN. The shipping has probably gone up some I am not sure if the price of the seed has or not.
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There is too much tastey natural nectar in flow currently for the bees to take much if any sugar syrup.

Add some Mannlake Pro Bee Health or Honey Bee Health (pretty much the same stuff) to your sugar syrup and it will keep for months. The essential oils in the feed stimulant will retard pretty much...

I use Ball and Kerr Mason jars that I buy in bulk by the full pallet. The most popular jar size that I get requests for are the quart jars. The pint jar run a moderately distant second place. I...

I think it there is a substantial possibility of losing ALL of the hives if you do not hammer them hard with some oxytetracycline aka TM-343. I seriously doubt this infection will clear itself. ...

Perhaps many may have already read this but an interesting & dated bit of research:
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I am going through the exact same thing. Nosema seems to be the most active bee killer during the cold months. I mixed up a batch of sugar syrup, Fumagilan-B and Mannlake Bee Health (same as Honey...

OK, I have read various comments about wood glues in a number of threads but the search function does not turn up much in the way of any comparisons or what is the general conscensus as to what is...