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Thanks all. I figured it would be a real pain in the butt for little reward ... but wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something simple. I think we'll find someone local that will take the bees...

I am accepting a position with a company that require me to relocate from DC to Seattle this August. Is it even feasible to move a few (three) hives that sort of distance or should I expect to...

I've done some searching on reversing and it seems to apply to late winter/spring. I don't see any references to fall reversing. However, in one my hives, the lower brood chamber is now empty ......

Wow, that's a lot of honey! I have two hives, each produced about 30 pounds.

June 29th and they advised that that was handling my order quit on May 1st.

I had a similar experience with an order for a ventilated suit and a youth suit. I received the ventilated suit, but the youth suit went on backorder. The communication was extremely poor and...

I really enjoy taking photos of my bees during inspections ... and I've been playing around with Hive Tracks, using my iPhone to scan bar codes and record inspection details. The problem is that ...

Thanks, I hope you are correct. I have not completed the mite count yet (not yet 72 hours), I'll pull the boards tomorrow for the counts. But in the meantime, I did pull the frame in question ......

As a young man, I worked at a garden center for a while. Each spring we'd have tractor trailers loaded with everything from mulch to flats of flowers and vegetables arriving. All had to be...

Or I should probably say de-capped pupa. On an quick inspection this past weekend, I pulled a frame and found a bunch of pupa that were exposed. They were almost fully developed into bees, though...

Thanks Beregondo, that video definitely helps. Pretty obvious from watching that how the bees respond to an invader ... but that little gal was persistent, and still ducked into the hive!

Thanks robherc! It's was a bit alarming to see so much activity ... it seemed frenzied to me, compared to what I am used to seeing anyway, but thinking back on it they were pretty calm really, just...

Ok, good! That's an incredible video ... thanks for sharing, it definitely helps to see others for comparison.

I'm not sure how to recognize robbing ... I watched a few youtube videos even and it wasn't entirely clear.

I have uploaded a video (quality isn't that good unfortunately) to my blog and I'd...

odfrank, can you explain? Why would this activity signify over feeding as opposed to just run of the mill burr comb or a ladder as suggested by others?

Thank you both for your replies! I wasn't thinking of it as a ladder to get to the syrup but rather of "burr comb" that needs to be cleaned up. That makes sense and I'll definitely "let the bees...

I have one of these feeders on my hives:

https://www.mannlakeltd.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Store_Code=mannlake&Screen=DISP_INFO&Product_Code=FD-110&ajax=true

I have done inspections since installing...

Good news ... the suit arrived today! For an order just placed on Friday, this was a nice surprise to come home to! I have one very excited kid ... we will hopefully do a package install and...

Wow, thank you for the quick response ... I'm impressed!

I've had a youth suit back ordered from Pigeon Mountain since MARCH 10th! Follow-up has been pretty poor ... so I'm giving up and decided to give the Jawadis a try. Order just placed,...

Well, of the two hive inspections I've done thus far. ;-)

I went into the hive yesterday, first to attach screen over the top feeder so I could raise the top cover for ventilation without...

Ah, I like the idea of stapling screen across the top of the feeder itself!

First year, first package ... I currently have a screened bottom w/ IPM board in place, deep body, top feeder, inner cover, cover.

In the feeder I put a 1:1 sugar solution. This morning I...

So a new package should have the screened bottom closed? I just installed a package last night, and left the screened bottoms open (i.e. I didn't slide in the board beneath the screen). So at...

Thanks for all of the replies!