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I'm not far from you, and my bees are bringing in nectar. I added a deep to some singles today, they were stuffed full with bees and brood and starting to fill up with nectar. There were capped...

My first year I got about 4 gallons from my hive. I'll second the recommendation to start with two hives.

Can you clarify? I have a Class C, but didn't know it gave me a higher gvwr. I thought it was only for 16+ passengers or hazardous materials.

Probably feces.

http://honeybee.drawwing.org/book/queen-faeces

Cutdown split:

http://www.bushfarms.com/beessplits.htm#cutdown

Just saw you're about an hour and a half north of me, Skinner. I may come pay you a visit sometime when you're not too busy.

Thanks Beeware, very helpful information.

I'm interested in what size equipment is used as well.

If you split it, you have plenty of time for them both to build to full strength before winter.

It is, it has around 350K miles and finally needs a new carb, the motor's never been touched. It was my first truck.

I wonder if the HBH in the feed contributed to the robbing.

Nice Scout in the background, by the way! That's another of my interests.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v217/Red_Sc/Trucks/small1.jpg

I started last year with one hive of Italians, and several months later split a couple of frames off with a BeeWeaver queen. The BeeWeaver hive never got all that strong last fall- not unexpected...

Three of us bought a total of 6 packages this year, we're all new beekeepers. So far no problems with any of them that I know of.

http://bugguide.net/images/raw/3L9LHZ2LSZCL2RLHERLH6RFZ3LPLSRYZZZPLQZRH6RKH4R1LMZVL0ZVL0ZLHIZBLERHHSZ1LMZSH.jpg

Any particular breed you're looking for? BeeWeaver is showing availability for the week of 5/24, I have one of their queens coming next week for a split.