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Can anyone point me to some images and guidelines of properly rubber banding wild comb into frames?

Thanks in advance

In this article on pollination rental, there is a photograph of a bee hive, different from anything I've seen, any ideas what this is, how it works:

http://www.slate.com/id/2194424/?GT1=38001

If you read about it in the book "Bees In America", while the skep is really a huge part of American history, when American Foul Brood began to show up, bang, it decimated beekeeping.

In Eva...

http://denver.craigslist.org/search/sss?query=skep

In Michael Pollin's Omnivore's Dilemma, he states that HFCS is treated differrently in our bodies than cane sugar. Supposedly, the body's insulin response takes longer, so more glucose is in the...

I think we get beyond the basics of EKW's two point here,

The word "survivor" is becoming pointless if all it really means is a queen bred from package bees that overwintered one year or from a...

Thanks for the links and observations. The "Hive Notes" link is especially good, of course, as always, one thing leads to another, they mention that their bees clean out foulbrood scale and other...

Why not, I forgot to look into it, but I am free that weekend. I'll check to see if anyone else local is traveling to it.

Well,

Spring comes late here to begin with. Colorado front-range climate is a very fickle one, and part of what I accept about bees here is that I am in a slightly more challenging environment....

Gene,

That's quite straightforward! How ingenious....

Thanks,

If they opt to proceed, I'll photograph and document.

Yes,

Thanks alot, I can see that the splice might be the only way to do that. I can probably get these folks to pay for a splice. Saving the bees would be good PR for me, too. This is sort of a...

Well,

I am amazed! I hived a package finally in the MB style TBH I built, tired of waiting for a swarm this cold spring up here. 9 combs in 3 days, and a friend did the same and got 9 combs in...

dmacmtb,

Re-read this thread today, noticed it all started cause you had to walk the dogs. I noticed that my dog and her dog friends never ever seem to touch the electric fence, btw, without any...

Well,

I know if I search 'hard enough' on BeeSource I will find my answer. I too discovered a brrodless hive last night and have the same questions, and of course, BeeSource et al have the...

Well,

For many years now, a feral hive has been living in a log post, part of a tall gate, on a ranch property nearby. Other homeowners who travel through this gate to get to the public roads are...

Looking for a queen in the Colorado Springs / Denver area.

Please PM me, provide price, and include location I can drive to / or shipping cost, thanks.

Yes,

My friend will be buying it.

Well,

I'll be the first to respond, then.

Looks like a wide open opportunity for beekeeping authors, a TBH based intro book to beekeeping.

While I am new to TBHs, I have a year of Lang under my belt. I have a friend whose family wants to get into beekeeping, very origanic/naturapath mindset. They already know they want to start by...

Don't know how long the new queen has been there, but when I noticed the same thing with my first package last year, after a week and a few days, the advice I recieved was to give her time to get...

Yep,

Dogs are phenomenal, also, bears and dogs, believe it or not, are very distant but related species. One thing both of them share is that they can sense electric charge, and they avoid...

Wow,

Glad this came up. I was just perusing The Hive and The Honey Bee last night and somewhere it discussed supercedure cells appearing in recently hived packages on previously drawn out comb,...

Alpha6 and others

This guy has an interesting approach that I hope is really working, in case I ever need to upgrade beyond my electrobraid and wood post fence:
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I found this article:

http://www2.gsu.edu/~biojdsx/super.htm

So,

What happened with this "mixed medium" arrangement? Did the bees draw out on the foundationless frames?