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Usually, in early spring I have many bumble bees trying to enter my bee hives. If one manages to enter , Most times I see him coming out at once, flying zig zag, and making strange loops on the air....

"When I pull honey supers off its sometimes a week or two before I extract it."

And where do you store it till then?

David, does the wind blow in your area??????

It is not a cloth, it is a black carbage bag, I put the trap inside it, because it is made from scrap wood, and if it rains it will be no more trap. he he he.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYQo3XF_P-A

The same happened to me

I have put 21 traps for this year. From April 6 till today, I have caught 11 swarms.
One month still to go.

My bigest mistake is managing hives without a plan.
Wanting to increase my hive numbers, and have some honey also.
Ended with no hives and no honey.

I think, the competition refers to swarms moving in to bait hives.

I was looking around for everything to fit on the marking tube.
From potato chips package, to frozen fish pagkage mesh.
The identical size mesh is from my wife's foam bath sponge. It is the right...

I have made special size, seven frame deeps, to catch the 30+ liter volume.
During the rest of the year , I use them as nucs.

I also have 21 on the field , in a long long range from my appiary, some 25 kms in a circle. Unfortunately I have no fotos, cause I was there by the time the last bees were going into the trap. Every...

Yesterday , April the 7th, the first swarm got into one of my swarm traps. And it is a big one. A seven frame deep, almost full of bees. Eight days earlier than last year.
Happy <<fishing>> to...

This is what I did.
Thank you all for the replies

Good day all
Yesterday I decided to find the queen of a hive , to mark her. At first looked on all the brood frames, with no result. Next I looked on the honey frames, and …..bingo , there she was....

Thank you all.

Hi all
Do you know if there is a difference between the queen marker pen that is sold in the bee-stores, and the other that is sold in the book stores?
The first is sold for 6-7 euros a piece and...

A forager's life, is 800 Km of flying. It would be nice to be 1200 or more Km.

Whenever I tried to have a two-queen hive, even the one above the other, or the one beside the other, with a QE in between, I ended up with all the bees moved to one queen's hive, and the other queen...

Late summer, I had 8 hives with 10 frames of population.
On september the 4, I have made 4 walk away splits .
3 of them had a new laying queen, the other was laying workers and off.
1 more get...

That's where all the lost bees in the USA have gone. Not CCD.

Thank you Mr Bush.
According to last year's primary swarm season date (14 of April-25 of May), and supposing that will be the same this year, when would be the proper time to start opening the brood...

OK I will keep you informed

Hi Matthew

I am going to try your idea but need some advice.
The new frames are totaly empty, or with foundation?
If I use drawn frames , that changes thing for worsh or for better?
I want to...

According to Michael Bush's <<calendar>> of early blooming trees, now is the time in my place to start with opening the broodnest. But to do so, I must check all the frames in the nest , pulling...

Indeed very accurate post. BUT!!!!!!
I am an electrical engineer, running my own little company in construction business. The last few years, construction in Greece is in sub zero. So, all the above...