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After much decision, I decided to order a Mann Lake vented suit. I'm 265 pounds and around 5' 10". I ordered the X Large vented suit. I got it, and while I fit in it, I barely fit. According to...

At this point, it doesn't matter what you do- honor your initial agreement or cut your losses - your name is "mud" with these people.

At first you wanted to help these people, and they wanted to...

Checking in for the first time this year on this thread. Didn't have a good winter - out of 12 hives, 3 were still alive in March. (I figured as much, many of the swarms I caught last year just...

I'm guessing for whatever reason, the swarm just landed there thinking it would be a good home and upon finding it occupied decided they would move on. It's odd if the swarm actually went into the...

My Father & I kept bees when I was a young teen. Our bees swarmed, but I never witnessed it - I would just see the swarm on a tree - if we were that lucky.

I got back into beekeeping about 4...

I'd be more inclined to just let the wild hive alone. Set up swarm traps around the area and collect 1 - 2 swarms per year from them.

If they aren't hurting anything out in the woods, let them be...

It's been a busy year. Had both hives make it through the winter and did a split on one which got me up to 3 hives. I advertised I would remove swarms and captured at least 11 swarms but I had...

Instead of expanding your hives, why not let your hives produce honey and expand by catching swarms? This year I advertised by contacting local pest control companies, police, fire department, and...

Is this an unheated greenhouse, or a greenhouse you are keeping plants in?

In a heated greenhouse, the bees are going to come out and fly around and try to find a way out.

Even in an unheated...

Myself personally - I'm a cheapskate and prefer to assemble my own and paint them. But that's just me. If you get a new beekeeper looking for equipment, or a beekeeper that just has a few hives and...

Are you satisfied with the performance of the jacket? Is it really cooler than regular suits and does it eliminate bee stings?

I've been looking at buying the vented bee suit but just haven't...

Received a call lastnight from a guy that has bees in the "soffit and fascia" of his house. Well, at least he "thinks" they are only in the soffit and fascia - he doesn't think they are in the eves...

I went and checked lastnight on the hive I had set up near the cutout. A few bees were in it (I think robbing whatever little honey was in the frames). Apparently when doing the cutout - either the...

I would never attempt to get into a hive without a suit.

I have caught swarms without suiting up, but I now always wear a veil because I have longer hair and bees always get tangled in it....

Well, as usual things don't quite work out as planned. (Isn't that the way it always is?!?)

We started around 4:00 P.M. this afternoon - pried off several sheets of siding, and then cut the...

If you were a beekeeper starting out and would have to buy the hive equipment brand new - looking through a Mann Lake catalog, for the 2 unasembled hive bodies, 20 unassembled frames, 20 frames of...

You did a GREAT JOB all by yourself!!!!!!! You have done everything you could to help them.

If they survive the winter, then next Spring you can decide if you want to bother cutting the log...

Will do, but it's only 1 1/2 miles from my house - so it's not too far if I forget something.

No! But I'll be doing a cutout this weekend - well, "I'm" not - the homeowner is. Once he gets to the bees, then I'll take over. Supposedly the swarm moved in less than a week ago. How much comb...

Yesterday afternoon I went to do the cutout. Had my beevac ready to go and got my equipment up to the room. A drywall ceiling that in one place was paper thin - I thought because of honey dripping....

Wish me luck! Tomorrow I'm attempting my very first cutout. Bees in the ceiling of a room - should be simple enough - remove the drywall and remove the bees.

I know it's late in the year to do a...

A "neighbor" that lives 1 1/2 miles away stopped by our house this afternoon. He told my wife he had a swarm of honeybees on the side of his house. He got my phone number from my wife and called...

I got a call early Friday evening. Seems that a fellow that logs trees had made a deal with a homeowner that while logging, he would cut down an old hemlock tree beside the homeowner's house. When...

This has been an odd year. With the warmer than usual winter - the bees started swarming here first thing in May. I'm guessing with your one hive - you had a very productive queen - she has laid...

Received a call this evening from a lady asking if I dealt with honeybees. I'm thinking "Yeah, another call that I have bees in the wall of my house." But she said, "I have a honeybee swarm in my...