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I checked my hive after 2 weeks. The queen had flown away and i did not think she made it back.
No capped brood, lots of honey, one frame with some larvae. No queen.. i looked 2 times carefully at...

This being my first "real" spring, I am happily surprised by my one over wintered hive. 2 weeks ago I placed a 5th 8 frame medium on the stack. #3 was mostly full and partially capped, a small amount...

I let her sit overnight in the cage. Went back next day due to time and direct released. Messed up seems like. I stayed there a bit after I realized she was out, then I put the empty cage on the...

Well I guess I learned a lesson. I am reviewing a video taken while I was releasing the queen. Clear as day, I see her come out of her cage, crawl over the top of the bees, up the side of the box,...

I hived my packages this weekend and released my queens after 24 hours. I pushed in the plug and held the queen cage over the frames. First queen walked out like nothing was happening and disappeared...

Getting packages tomorrow and forcast 60% chance of rain. Sat forcast 50%. I have to get them in this weekend due to scheduling. Has anyone had to do this before? Any advice on this? I dont think its...

Thanks all. I am not using top bar entrance and the one frame of partial honey I put in the top. Sounds like I am on track here. Hive check again this coming weekend. Ill see what it looks like and...

I did my hive check and forgot I had three boxes instead of 2. Hive was booming and had utilized the space I left for them. (Instead of creating swarm cells like I had thought). All three boxes had...

Every box had brood. Middle and bottom had strong patterns. Top had quite a bit.

I just finished my hive check. No swarm cells tons of capped drone cells some drones. Lots of stores good laying pattern and more room to lay. Right or wrong i added a honey super. They were already...

Is 24 hours long enough to kill them and eggs?

This is pretty much where I think my hive will be tomorrow. Mike is quite close to me and just a touch behind I think. So if my bee math is correct, your hive started the swarm cells something like...

Thanks for all the replies. I assumed I would see swarm cells as it was crowded last look and they were gathering pollen. I dont want to put the queen in the same box with the swarm cells IF there...

I wanted to try my luck at catching a swarm and was thinking to use some frames that have small amounts of honey on them in a deep box I have laying around. Is this a waste of my honey? Or does it...

Here is my situation. I have 5 hives total, 4 empty and one last I looked was doing great. I want to split the one, likely this weekend. All boxes are spoken for as I have 4 packages on the way. I...

One thing not mentioned yet that comes to mind is the location. Is there enough vegetation in the area to have a good honey crop? Would it be a good apiary site?? Good luck. I agree with those who...

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Seems like you missed the point of the post. If you have angry bees, you might try smoking yourself to try and PREVENT stings. The theory here is bees dont like smoke and would stay away...

One thing I do, not sure if it really helps or not, is to smoke the daylights out of my bee suit. Arms, legs, chest and close my eyes and hold my breathe.. smoke the veil. This wont help with the...

My pickup date is for May 11th. From down south, supposed to be from Wilbanks. Hope to see them then since that date is fairly far out already.

What about the idea that the original queen is there all along, not laying real well, not doing her job. The hive realized this, saw new eggs and decided to create supercedure cells to overthrow the...

I am planning to treat my packages this spring with oxalic. I wont be able to go back and check the hive for 2 weeks after treatment, due to logistics.

1) Will the bees leave dead varroa on the...

Can you get some jpegs?? I am curious to see them. FYI - my hives last year kept smallish queen cups during later summer for quite some time. I dont recall how long, maybe til I harvested or after...

I was showing my young relative my hive the other day and explained to him the guard bees on the landing board. He asked me if a guard bee or two loses a stinger in defending the hive, how does she...

Sat afternoon they were flying and getting small amounts of a whitish/grey pollen from something. Not sure yet what as it looks pretty barren out there still. I opened up my hive a bit further Sat. ...

There is an issue with the beeinformed survey. I lost a hive due to a bug, varroa to be specific, and there is no option for losing a hive, just giving away or selling. The results on this survey...