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"A Better Rubber Glove" President's Choice (PC) Heavy Duty Latex Gloves from Loblaws or SuperStore. Bees cannot sting through them. I've seen a lot of stingers over time, and one has never gotten...

So can they sting through these "Thickster" gloves?

I wonder about this idea of having a sense of the honeybee population through casual observation. And I wonder how accurate it is. I've done the same thing. "I haven't seen any honeybees, so there...

I am aiming to have grafts in by June 15. Too cold now, and there are other things to do. I want to be raising queens right smack in the middle of swarm season.

Adam

I'm interested in the specifics of where you place your cups and how many.

• How do you space your cups on a cell bar? Do you butt them right up against each other, or do you need to have a...

Interesting ideas, Lauri.

Our spring here has been slow and cool. I am very much feeling the importance of just bee resources.... When you sell those 4 or 5 frames, the comb, the bees and the...

Good move.

Right now, this is the most important thing you can do. Get them looked at by someone local asap. Your bees and the bees of others around you can be saved by getting clear answers and...

Fourth picture in your original post, on the left. Looks like a stack of cut carpeting or something to the left of the hives on the stand...

Can the bees sting through those at all, Lauri?

I use high-quality dish gloves and the bees can't sting through them. They're about $3 per pair, but they last quite a while before they're done. My...

I've done some experimenting with some of these things.

I've been using narrow brood frames, and I find that it makes it much harder to do inspections. The tight spacing makes it hard to remove...

I mix cinnamon with vaseline and smear it on the legs of my stands. Works pretty well.

Adam

Nice. I'm going to graft from a collected swarm queen myself. It's booming after a hard winter.

Sent another PM.

Adam

Hey Lauri,

Looking good. I'm with you on wanting things to really get going. We're still a bit chilly here.

Sent you a PM on another issue...

Adam

Up here in the great white North, I've painted mine a dark, chocolate brown. I went that direction after I saw Erin Forbes in Maine had painted hers black, and we're quite a bit cooler here than...

Here's an article from the Huffington Post entitled Roundup: Birth Defects Caused by World's Top Selling Weed Killer, Scientists Say

Here's one called "Worse Than DDT: When You Eat This, It Ends...

I use burlap from a local coffee roaster. I really like it.

That video of Don that PatBeek posted above is a good one. I found that seeing Don do that really helped me get better with the smoker....

Sol, I know you've been working on your approach for quite a long time, and I respect your input. I have gone to your blog a number of times, but cannot remember specifics at the moment. Did you...

Oldtimer, you've been putting a great effort into exploring some of the treatment free theories as well, and then sharing your experiences here in detail for others to learn what they can from it....

Interesting thread.

David, I have read a lot of your posts, and I think you're a thoughtful person. I appreciate your line of questioning here.

I'm hearing from a friend who sells nucs, at...

That's all we've got? Anyone else? I'm trying to decide on this myself, so I'd like to get as much input as I can before I choose a direction.

Adam

I had a hive that was making swarm cells, so I split it. Then I realized I was supposed to move the queen with the split and leave the cells in the original location. Had to go back in and do it all...

I'm trying to minimize the number of separate pieces of gear that I have to make and store. So I felt that figuring out a good divider was more efficient than having to build dividers for the deeps...

I'm using all deep 8's. I'm making divider boards out of 3/4" stock with a plywood 'top bar' so that they hang on the frame rests. They're not rabbeted or fastened into the box. I figure the bees...

I'm just working on building gear, and specifically, on making divider boards for housing double nucs in deep boxes. I'm concerned about getting a good connection between dividers from one super to...

I have 5 tbh's. The first two I made, I never painted, but used a poly finish to keep the 'wood-look'. The next three I stained with a solid stain. Looking at them all, I wish I had stained them all....