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I came to this graph late, but appreciate the info. If you're looking for more work...:) ... you might consider overlaying another chart with accumulated growing degree days. That might help make the...

I've been asked to do a 15-20 minute presentation for my son's third grade class. I have a few ideas of my own, but wonder if there's anything you've tried that was particularly well received. And...

I have a hive that seems to be doing quite well. Just harvested several frames of honey from the remaining super, the hive looks well stocked, and the queen's still laying a fair amount of brood.
A...

I pulled out 3-4 Frames filled with capped honey and replaced the hive with frames of foundation. The full frames are currently in a sealed plastic tote. How long can I keep them in there before...

Thanks for a good discussion. Very helpful. Brion (with-an-"o")

I started keeping a couple hives in a friend's yard this year. Looks like at least one of the colonies will produce enough surplus honey to harvest and sell. I'd like to offer something to him in...

Thanks Keith!
Opened the hive today and a couple of the queen cells had hatched open. I took two cells that were still in tact and moved them to the S. hive (no queen cells there). Hope I made the...

I have two hives. North hive swarmed about 6-7 weeks ago and apparently the replacement queen was not well received. When I checked on the hive yesterday there were about 8-10 supercedure cells on...

Thanks to you both. I try not to be a "helicopter beekeeper" but there's always the temptation....
Thanks again!
Brion (with an 'o')

Hoping for your wisdom.

Last year I started beekeeping. I've got two hives (10 frame mediums with beeswax foundation). Built them up to 3 mediums per hive by end of fall. Harvested nothing as I...

See yesterday's thread in this forum: "status of California packages and queens"

Thanks for the comments. We do have several trees in our yard and windbreaks for the hive would be easy. My main concern was with the general location. I'm just imagining those little guys (er, gals)...

A little over a year ago we moved to a rural area of N Illinois (lots of soy, wheat and corn farmers) and are thinking about starting a hive in the spring. The thing that concerns us is wind.
We...