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Think he means you can have a democratic house and a republican senate or visa versa with the guys in the senate trying to hold stuff up for the purpose of making the guys in the house look bad...

Just one county with a heavy quarantine zone around it, nothing in or out that hasn't been frozen in a reefer for at least 3 days

Bees under two weeks old will draw wax whenever stimulated by gathering and more specifically curing sugar of any kind so long as it's 13 C or 55 F outside... I just don't see what that could have...

If you were going to leave the third box there's no need to do anything; no way a queen will lay in 4 boxes unless you've got a huge amount of honey plugging the brood nest

I run all my hives this way, can't see getting much more honey per super... The main reason to do it is for ease of uncapping, the bees will bring the wax out further... You will however end up...

Wait until you have two full honey supers and then take the top one that's only honey and reverse it with the bottom one that's brood and honey, making sure the queen's in the brood nest somewhere......

Here's a different spin and I'd better use the digging hole animation for my safety first off... :digging:

Going way back to somewhere around page 5 I think it was brought up that bees are a...

Gotta bear in mind that temperament is pretty much as important as honey production in my books... That's not saying I won't requeen a hive that's never stung me and doesn't make a decent amount of...

Just seeing that picture, you'd be right absolutely. Unfortunately the photographer missed the important part that mite levels tested reasonable and many were strong doubles the week before. The...

The only thing two beekeepers can agree on is that the third beekeeper who is not in the room is doing everything wrong. haha

Ha yeah suing farmers strikes me as about the best way to lose pretty much all of your existing yards and never being able to find new ones that I can think of... Gotta keep in mind that most...

Not for that sort of thing, they've come out with some good bear kill compensation programs but nothing so far as pesticide related. I'm sure that if some people see a repeat in 2013 that the...

They were not.

You may find excessive propolis buildup with a rough inside, also it's harder to scrape off a rough surface than a smooth one. Probably not the end of the world though

Yeah Dominion and Grim's probably cheapest... Free shipping on orders over 50 bucks too I think

Phrases like a colony survived or a colony tolerated don't mean the same thing as a colony was in good health. The whole goal of a commercial beekeeper is to produce the largest surplus possible, be...

I've heard several cases of 60 to 100% queen mortality, I believe these were associated with high treatment temperatures but still not hitting the maximum recommended temperature (This involved a...

I've heard of major queen loss issues with MAQS... Never tried them personally but it sort of defeats the purpose of reducing mite loads if you kill the queen right before winter

Treatment recommendations in Ontario are 1 strip per brood chamber with good results

Certainly it would be better if you could get the lid off but since that isn't an option I guess you could try sugar on the bottom boards for a few and do more if it works? I've tried boardman...

What if you built a 'funnel' out of aluminum? I'm thinking a piece of flat stock slightly narrower than your entrance and long enough to reach almost to the back. Then just pour dry sugar on it. ...

You do that and I'll take a thousand queens off your hands

I run double deep brood chambers and deep supers. I think it's pretty well a minimum to have three supers per hive if you're trying to maximize honey production. In addition to that I make 5 deep...

The other thing to consider is that there are more than double the number of teeth on a regular dado set than a wobble head (Two blades plus 2 teeth per chipper). This, I find lets you ram pieces...

Interesting idea... I'd think you'd want their most expensive line (There are 3 grades and I can't think of the name at the moment) as it has an actual protective layer over the ground up plastic...