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Thanks Mike, I'm actually reading the book (scientific Queen Rearing)from the link you provided in another post.

I was just reading doolittles book scientific queen rearing and in that book he stated that he had great luck placing grafted larvae in the queenfight finishing colony. Everything more current I've...

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I made a quad mini mating nuc out of a deep 10 frame hive body. I am going to place this on top of one of my hives to draw out the comb in the mini frames. However, the mini frames in the...

i hate kiling queens but when i did it i just did it quickly. as far as requeening you can put the queen cage on top of the bars, screen side facing up and don't remove the cork yet, wait a day or...

yup ticks have been out for a month in nh,

thank you beepro, the hive was overwintered in 2 deeps, the top deep is boiling with bees and I have been feeding pollen for the past 2 weeks. So I think i should probably go ahead and reverse now. i...

I did my first inspection today here in NH. I found the queen, saw plenty of eggs and capped brood, there is also still a lot of capped honey left in the hive. The question i have relates to the room...

I like the mann lake feeders. I use them exclusively now. The only problem is that they build comb up inside of it so its kind of apain to remove and clean.

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i had to break down one of my hives due to it being queenless. So now I have these deep frames partially filled with honey and pollen. I took the best of these frames and divided them among...

I sure hope I do smell it again I have a few supers that could use to be topped off. It's my understanding for us here in the northeast this will be the last plant to produce nectar for us.

chef,

that's funny! I walked into my yard last week and spent 1/2 an hour looking for what had died in my yard...I guess it was the golden rod! Thank you for the info.

So now I can respond to...

Thanks for the info. Mike I asked a question in you post on the goldenrod flow, I'm not too sure what it smells like but I went to my hive last week and smelled this god awful smell permeating the...

Newbie here what does goldenrod nectar smell like

Correction. I meant to say there's very little honey in the top deep. Not super.

I inspected one off hives today to notice that I have brood in my super, my second deep looks like the typical winter cluster pattern and my bottom deep is full of bees but other than that there's...

tried using this app in the field with my i phone. the create new inspection and view all inspections for this hive links dont work.

Thanks mark

I tried it a few minutes ago seems to work. I'll get more into it tommorow once i go to my hives. thanks for a great program.

yea actually as far as the frames are concerned, mann lake sells them for .79 each in quantity. there's no way i could build them for that especially if you factor in the time. I will stick with just...

I have a stress fracture in my back that I take medication for to ease the pain. I've been years without knowing what its like to be pain free. The other day I got stung 5 times on my left forearm,...

I tried it once......

if you want to see if the hive is queenless you can take a frame of eggs -no bees and put it in the hive. go back in 3 days and if there are queen cells then your hive is queenless if no queen cells,...

I made an overwintering nuc using a deep hive split in two. I added queens to both sides but one of the queens wasn't accepted. i'm trying to get in touch with the breeder to see if he offers...

in my opinion the key to keeping a smoker going are the coals on the bottom, sometimes I start with twigs and get a good coal base with that or sometimes I use wood pellets from my pellet stove....

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I've been building my own boxes and want to start building frames I'm just trying to figure out what I should be using for lumber size and how to best utilize the boards.
I cant get any ...

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new beekeeper here, how can you tell? my bees drank 2 1/2 gallons of syrup the past two days