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My dog sometimes left part of himself on the side of the hive...

There's an old thread from 2007 on HoneySuperCell. Any updates?

You can toss slumgum, but I've heard that it's a good fertilizer for your garden. Haven't tried it myself, but I can't see that it would hurt.

Thanks again to everyone for their replies. I'm placing my order today for 20 8-frame hives with supers, and enough wood frames to supplement what I already have. (I'm planning on starting 15 hives,...

If you're into self-sufficiency, I'd recommend John Vivian's Keeping Bees. It's from about '86, so doesn't cover mite treatments, but it can't be beat for basic beekeeping, including things like...

Next time, use that pair of rubber dishwashing gloves languishing under the sink. Or get a box of cheap, throw away gloves that doctors wear. Others in my club use them, and say they work great.
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Has she taken life insurance out on you? Just askin'. :lookout:

Do what I did: go to garage sales or the like and pick up your wax pans there for a buck to two.

And I knew my (not a beekeeper) husband loved me the day we closed up my hives, put them in the...

For those who use 8-frame equipment: is there any piece of equipment not available for 8-frame that you want or need?

I'm thinking of moving to 8-frame, and the only hold up is whether some...

If the extractor were the only issue, I'd just plan for deeps next time. But I can't see myself hefting 90-100 pounds regularly; much easier to do 2 40-lb mediums!

There are three problems with using deeps for honey, from my perspective: 1. my extractor holds 6 mediums radially or 3 deeps tangentially. Who needs that? And I'm not ready to buy a new extractor....

:) Yeah, the all medium thing surprised me, because I didn't really love it when I tried it. Going through 30 frames instead of 20, the incompatibility with standard nucs, and so on was enough to put...

I tried all mediums one year, and didn't like two things: if I buy a nuc, it'll be on deeps (though lately I've been going with packages anyway, to avoid other people's contaminated wax issues) and...

I'll be expanding my apiary in the spring. I have a chance to "start over," as it were, since I'll be buying a lot of new equipment. Eight frame or 10? Wax or plastic (or wood and plastic, or...

If you let them freeze, that will take care of any wax moth. I put a telescoping cover metal-side down, stack the boxes, then top with another telescoping cover. Or I put them back on the hives above...

Whatever kills ants will also kill bees. Why not just leave it? If they come in the house, then use the Terro.

http://www.fao.org/docrep/w0076e/w0076e14.htm

Detailed instructions.

I try to think of the colony as a single organism, and killing individual bees is more like sloughing off skin cells. It makes me feel better. :)

Arthur, I was in a similar situation last year, except that the hive had been inspected recently, and probably requeened itself within a couple of months. It was also a survivor, and a great honey...

No. It means that a rabbi has inspected the facilities and even observed the processing. I described my processing to our local Chabad (very Orthodox) rabbi, and he said he would come watch and...

Can you give me an idea of what you mean by "bottom bearing"? Everything seems to spin freely on mine when taken apart.

I tried it years ago, and had no problem getting it drawn out, but they were new packages (or nucs, don't remember) and I was feeding them to make sure that foundation was drawn out. If you haven't...

Thanks for the replies! No, the gate was open. There is a gearbox between the motor and the shaft (or a box that is connected to the speed control).

Lower bearing? I didn't see that one. Where is...

Hi All,
I used my RR for about the 5th time today. Towards the end, the motor was really having a hard time spinning up. We disassembled the motor from the shaft, and the shaft spins fine, so...

Washing isn't going to kill the spores, but it will remove them from a non-permeable tool or one's hands. You can't wash them off frames because wax and wood are permeable. Not so with steel. That's...