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Can you explain what a flow or is? I'm such a newb. :doh:

I don't have or use a smoker. I use sugar water in a spray bottle.

How would a push cage work if I have no existing worker brood?

I have plans all set up to do this shake out technique to save my colony (laying worker). Found a local source for a carniolan. A beekeeper friend says that introducing a carniolan queen to an...

Really?!? I thought bees traveled up to three miles to forage if they need to. I thought I was being cautious by only going a mile away. Huh...

So, since I obviously have a laying worker and have come up dry in getting worker brood from other beeks, here's the shake-out procedure I'm following:

I am going to dismantle my hive, load...

Just going off beesource replies coupled with the fact that they've gotten grumpier by the day, I'd say there is no queen. Certainly no capped workers that I've seen and more drones than (in my...

Sorry for the lag in reply. I missed this. She came with my package so she would have been unmated at that point. That was in May.

So I seem to have a laying worker in my TBH. I've heard the advice to give them a frame of brood but I'm having a very difficult time locating any locally (and kind of concerned about accepting...

I'm curious about what this opened supercedure cell looks like. I thought when it opened the queen emerged....(or if they put royal jelly in the wrong cell...well *something* should emerge). Why...

I'm really new to identifying these things.
Here's what I see:

~Several eggs in a single cell...certainly capped drone cells but also a few capped worker cells

Am I correct in my...

Thanks Michael. It's my first hive of any kind so I certainly don't have anywhere else to take brood from. Are you saying I could find a langsthrop bee keeper and somehow procure brood from them...

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Thanks Michael. I didn't realize that drone brood swelled SO far above the surface. Also, as I was watching them this afternoon, I saw a great number of drones entering and leaving the hive. I...

Three weeks ago I installed bees into their brand new hive. I took a look at the comb today for the first time, sans bees, using a beaver brush to get a good look.

I saw some perfect white comb....

I am absolutely providing them with an enormous supply of sugar syrup. They have a food container in the hive and also outside.

I'm such a newb that I can't really ascertain if they *are*...

Last Saturday while visiting a local beekeeper, I got stung about ten times. Just last night all of a sudden a couple of them itch like MAD and are spotty and bruised. Do others have experience...

They do seem to be clustered around a top bar, from what I can see. I just can't see the comb at all.

I accidentally released the queen myself on Monday in my attempt to loosen the wire on the...

I'm worried.

I got my bees on Sunday and put them in their brand new hive. They are still happily buzzing around. I have not opened the hive space as a beekeeper friend told me to stop...

My large terra cotta pot broke in half so I dug two holes and buried them both. A few days later I planted alyssum in both of those. Glad to be able to recycle the pot.

The entrance is indeed facing the fence. They seem to like to use other means of entrance though.

.....I *am* thinking of building another, but I'm feeling a bit uneasy about the existing hive...

Sure. The plans are from the biobees website. Free PDF.

So, to recap, I accidentally freed my queen last night. Newly built top bar hive. Brand new beekeeper. How will I know and how soon can I tell if she stayed in the hive?

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I know they don't eat the cork. There was a tiny piece of the cork that was too hard to remove. It seemed like they hadn't done anything since there was about 1/16th of cork still showing.

I had hoped they would have made *some* progress. They hadn't. There were pieces of cork that were blocking the way to the candy and they weren't coming loose. I'm a worried new mom. ;-)


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Sounds like an extreme sport to me...



I shall (post pics, that is). Seeing as I got a bunch of stings a few days back, and I'm nervous as hell right now, I think I'll hold off on that...