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Thanks i appreciate the responses , i am just a small one man operation trying to keep my head above water working my ass off trying to make a few bucks at beekeeping, never ending lessons to be...

Thanks i do swarm management which has been very successful this year so far, that is not the issue for me it is more about the trespassing on land i either lease or have the farmers permission to...

Hey i have a small operation 100-150 hives , we have had a big increase in beekeepers in where i live due some individuals thinking everyone needs to have a hive in their backyard. So here is the...

Cheapest i have been able to find is .56 pound not to bad considering is only 2 miles from the shop ......will continue to keep looking thanks

When buying that much from BJs or Sams club are you able to negotiate a lower price? how big were the lots you were buying at a time? thanks

Looking for a source of Bulk Sugar 1000 to 2000 pounds any suggestions or connections would be greatly appreciated thanks 508 693 6288 tim

Do the crystals formed by vaporization stay in the hive forever, if you were to vaporize a hive with a super on could you harvest from that super the following season.

I live in MA and am seeing fields of goldenrod that i don`t see until mid to late september,is this what others are seeing? What does this mean for the fall flow? What makes this happen is it the...

Hi i am looking for 5 gl pails or larger of spring new england honey . i never seem to get enough to fill all my orders thanks 508 693 6288

Had the same problem just put toether 300 of them, i just ran the bottom bar over the table saw and made the groove just a bit deeper , took no time at all,

Thanks- in general can virgins pass through the excluder, i`ll try to find them ,these hives are packed with bees covering alot of the top box plus they are abit aggressive. just doule checking but...

i am using the cloake board method and have 2 very crowded cell builders going each one has produced one round of 30 cells each, from my own mistakes i now have virgins in each is there any tricks to...

here is what i found with my limited 2 year experience
1 make sure there heavy!!
2 i use the feed bag as inner cover with a 1'' insulation board on top and underneath
3 3/4 or 1" hole oppiste end...

this is is my 2nd year overwintering nucs i use the 5 frame double nuc last year i lost about 30% this year a little less but the big difference is the strength of the colonies this year they are...

ok so i took they capped cells out of the cloake board set up there was 21 of the 30 i grafted. i set up a cell incubator by taking another hive putting some open brood above the excluder and put the...

I have 30 cells going right now in a cloake board set up, they are capped over now and would like to graft another 30 in a couple of days, can i just add more nurse bees and start the process over...

Lots of pelletized lime sprinkled on the soil....works for me.

I have a swarm that i put in a nuc box last fall which i fed until it became to cold....and they have made it through so far. With this recent cold blast i was worried about them so i moved them...

Went out the other day to check on my hives lost one out of 9 , 4 nucs and 5 two story hives. the one i lost is 2 years old and has never really done much, it had a pretty good case of varroa this...

Just finished my first exctraction the other day and have drained the cappings, what to do now with them? can i just melt them down and use the wax, still seems like there is honey mixed in there ...

Thanks good to know

have pulled a super that is packed and ready, but have to make an unplanned trip away and was wondering about freezing the super until i get home should only be away about a week .

I am planning on using the triangle bee escape , i have 2 supers on now one is packed so would like to take it off if i rotate the supers put the full one on top and put escape board underneath, do...