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We should be looking at the European ban as a good opportunity to maybe settle the issue without impacting our farmers unneccesarily.

They make pretty good decaf these days.

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This might be dumb, but what if you turned the hive 90 degrees?

I'm near Athens and I extracted last week. Prettiest Locust honey you ever saw. Supers are back on, Tulip Poplar is next.

I've not seen bees on our abundant multiflora rose.

I started a trapout on a house 3 weeks ago. The owner just noticed them this Spring, but judging by the activity (pollen, orientation, lots of bees), it was fairly well established. I created a new...

Gee, you're no fun to play "what if" with.:D

Y'all are attributing a lot of motives to corporations that just exist to make money for their shareholders.

The picture of the produce section without bee pollinated plants shows just that. Obviously, the Western Hemisphere supported a pretty big population before honeybees. Although, reportedly, the...

Have your wife buy you a hive tool.

You mean don't intervene in the poll.

My mentor has started using two 4 frame medium nucs, side by side, 3 boxes high, with a Queen excluder and 10 frame supers above. Essentially a two queen colony that fits into the footprint of 10...

I could not agree more.

If you work bees in shorts, wear underwear! I'm not saying how I learned this.

16oz plastic squeeze bottle for $7.

Not enough experience to have an opinion on the extractors but Maxant ball caps are really nice.

I fixed a leak in one by not screwing it in so tight.

I'm sure this is true but it's still a pretty interesting read. The numbers might not be right on but I wonder how much it is skewed.

I have a BM 9 frame hand crank radial. It works great. The weight of 9 frames might take a little extra oomph to get going but the extra momentum keeps it spinning on it's own for quite a while. A...

Up until now, you've had your original package bees doing all the work and slowly dying of old age. At 4 weeks you are just starting to gain bees. If all goes well, things should start accelerating.

Cocaine tolerance in bees is a different thread.

Oh, yeah. I got it. It's always the best intentioned people. I try not to snap at them.

I use a variation of the cardboard technique mentioned above. Cut strips of cardboard about 2" wide across the corrugation. Roll into cylinder about the diameter of your smoker and put it in the...

#@*&$, Mark. You're on today.