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You need to order a queen and shake the entire hive out on the ground before you place the new queen in the hive. For best success you should also put in a frame of brood but if you don't have one I...

I have not posted in a while because I have been giving Ruth time to make things right but she continues to disappoint. What the heck is wrong with them, can't they get a cell phone...GEEZ! Very poor...

Perfectly normal, nothing to worry about.

You are right and it is, I almost bailed out before the transaction because I did find a local guy which turned out to be much cheaper and 100 times better bees. I will mark it down as lesson learned.

I keep some hive in a wooded lot and they have always had them, at first I was worried about it but they never have done any harm. I think it is nothing to worry about.

Amen. If I could have read this before purchasing my packages from them combined with the sketchy comminication I would have made other arrangements. I did get some back-up packages from another...

There were no options.

I am not throwing stones and they could be the best place to get bees from in the world but my experience sucked. I really wanted their genetics and after 3 dead queens and losing the other 2, I got...

Spasiba Agromnaya.

Hard to say where the delay was exactly because of no tracking, I received a shipping notification but they never moved because they were never scanned in the first place. They did not stay in my...

So you are saying you would take on the chin and not ask for anything back? What about the fact that they said they don't know when the y can offer replacement queens?

You don't even know me or my attitude, my communications have been cordial and polite.
Just to add a couple of things:
1. The packages were insured but the supplier will not respond to my...

I recieved 5 packages from a well known apiary a couple of weeks ago that ended up in the post office for five days from one state over. When I finally got them there were tons of dead bees and 3...

Radio Shack, Home Depot or Lowes all should have them.

I built a box like Whimpy Hogan's box which has a sort of a wooden tube that mounts over the hole in the tree. To seal the sides and any other hole I use expanding foam....works like a charm.

Received dead queens in packages bees and and supplier can not offer replacement queens for several weeks because of weather. Anyone know where I can get get queens overnighted nearby:s?

Go to lowes or home depot and get a cordless dewault shop vac and get the mini attachment kit that has an attachment about the size of a straw. Open the hive an suck every one out you can, it will...

I like to use it, but don't sell it and from what Michael Bush wrote earlier:
"There is research (Marla Spivak did some recently) that supports that bees that make more propolis are healthier"
It...

Is there something that can be done to encourage more propolis in the hive (other than traps of course), maybe an additive to the feed?

I am doing my first cutout this weekend with a Bushkill beevac an was wondering if people put all the frames into the supers while vacuuming the bees or maybe take a few out or maybe none at all?...

It says on their website that they were hit by a tornado, I have tried to contact them by phone and E-mail. Anyone know their status?

Kudos Ben, great stuff!:thumbsup:

Can you elaborate a little bit? Do you mean if the location of the hive is entered, the program would figure estimated max forage distance for that hive or the user would program the known forage...

I am currently working on a beekeeping app for both the Iphone and Android phones. I am looking for ideas of things to include in it such as a bee calander and inspection sheet/ logs with the ability...

exactly!