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Recently I got 3 bunches of bees that swarmed from a guys house in the same yard. The 3 balls were all in the same tree. Two of these were larger and a third was maybe a quart or so. My question is...

Hi Clay,
Was the honey capped? Try giving open nectar next time if you didn't.RE: Some capped honey and some uncapped.
Did you feed them? RE: No I hadn't gotten around to that yet but I intended...

I picked up a small swarm a couple nights ago from one of my neighbors lilac bushes. They were about a half mile from my home 5 feet off the ground. I put them in a hive box ten frames of foundation...

Doesn't anybody have any ideas on this? Did I do what I should have by adding the unsealed brood? Do you think they swarmed?
What would you do?

Most of my hives seem to have wintered well but in two of them I found no queen,no eggs and no brood. I know my guess is something happened to the queens or they've swarmed already what are your...

you wrote;
How do you get your bees to treat thenselves naturally without chemicals?

Clay
That sounds like a question that you already know the answer to and I would like to hear it. So why...

http://www.beesource.com/pov/lusby/foundation/index.htm

I've been following the information on making press plates to make your own foundation. It seems to me that making the rubber/latex mold...

Clay,
You do make a lot of sense here but I think you are saying that you winter with 3 deep brood chambers? I have heard that if you winter with 3 deeps the bottom chamber will always be empty in...

Normally 2 brood chambers. I have been letting my queens run free in the hive on some but just put excluders on to restrict her a little in the past few days. Do you let the queen have free run? I...

beeman01,
Thanks again for all of the info. You have been about the most straight forward of anyone I have asked. Most of my bees are building cells on the comb and not on the bottom of the...

Thanks for the advice. Sounds like good information though I have read a lot about this subject and some of my bees are Italian some carniolan some mixed. I have tried to follow the rules on swarm...

I learned some from the last posting so I thought I ought to throw this one out there at the risk of sounding not knowledgable. I only have about 10 hives and ever since I spotted the first cell with...

Thanks for all of the great information. I will surely use it. Could have used it last year. I think I lost some from not having enough bees to keep them warm and last year was my 1st so I didn't...

Hi Clay,
Thanks for the info. What is a double screen board? I'm in the Moravia area about 16 miles south of Auburn. Also interested in how you would go about wintering in a nuc box? The reason I...

I would like to know if anyone has ever attempted to winter 2 queens in one hive (with an excluder between them ofcourse). I thought that way when they get strong in the spring I could just split the...