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I caught my second swarm of the season and all because of a status I posted on Facebook the night before. I got a call from a local welding shop about a swarm because the owners son, which I'm...

On my one year anniversary of beekeeping I got a phone call for a swarm so I hustled around and got it picked up. This was my first swarm ever! Thought it was neat since it was exactly one year to...

This is only my second year of beekeeping and on a inspection a few weeks ago I notice one of my 2 overwintered hives was without a queen. So I transferred a frame of eggs and brood over for them to...

There are zero eggs and brood. The only eggs and brood it had was from the frame I put in a week ago. The other hive has drones hatching out. I saw a few when I inspected it this weekend.

I did check on Sunday and there is still several bees in there. They were beginning to store pollen on a couple frames. The frame of eggs and capped brood I transferred a week earlier from another...

Checked things this morning and knocked on the hive and sounds like there are several bees still in there. When i looked at the frames yesterday there were no swarm cells either.

The dreaded box elder bug! Box elder trees are in the maple family I believe so anywhere that is wet like creek bottoms and such are more likely to have these trees. It would be impossible to get rid...

Just when everything seemed fine it took a wrong turn. I started 2 packages last May. Both were fine going into winter. They both were in 2 deeps and a medium left on full of stores. I checked on...

You may try http://www.wolfcreekbees.com/index.htm located in Tennessee. They appear to have "organic" bees and are 4.9 size. I have no dealings with them and only know about them from their site.

A coworker of mine came in to the office one day with a chunk of comb honey and had it on toast. He offered me some of it and at first I said no thanks, because I really don't care for honey all that...

hmm...That sounds like a better answer, but I don't have any bird feeders and fairly confident my neighbors don't have them either??

I went out and checked my hives today since it is 60 degrees here in central Illinois. The bees are very active with the nice weather. I noticed some were collecting pollen and was a little...