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I want input on if I want to help a hive along. What should I use for a mixing rate for sugar water, this time of year?

I have caught two swarms this spring. When I inspect the hives in the middle of the afternoon, I see that there are about 2-3 frame of bee's. My question is at that time of day, how many bee's are...

OK I opened up the hive today. It's been 8 days since I put the new swarm into the 10 frame deep. I saw the queen and I got to see her back into a cell and lay an egg. There are larva but no caped...

Hi ya all out there in Bee land. I lost my three hive two winters ago. So about two weeks ago I set out a trap to be fixin to catch some more. I set it up in a pine tree on a slope. About 6 feet...

I have two hives that have two 10 frame boxes full of bees. My
problem is, I put a queen excluder and a super on both 2 weeks ago and they are not moving up into the super to build comb and store...

Hi Pete, yes I have caught a couple swarms. I setup a nuc with some old drawn comb in it and a few drops of lemon grass oil. One at the entrance and a couple at the very back of the nuc. It really...

I have a swarm I caught about 2 weeks ago. It is in a single 10 frame lang. I checked it today and there are about 4 maybe 5 queen cells about half way up on a frame. there were some many bees not...

I have a overwinter 5 frame nuc that I want to change over to a 10 frame lang---what is the best way to do this---HELP

I had a die out this spring. A couple of frames had a softball size area with dead bee's head first and a lot of mold around them. My question is, can I put this frame into a active hive to have them...

River Birch
Juliaetta Idaho 83535
2-12-2010

On Sunday I went to look at my girls and saw that they were very active and it appeared they were bring in pollen it was around 50 that day. I live in Idaho and do not know where they could get...

Question, are you opening up the hives to inspect, isn't the cold adding to the losses when you look in? I haven't looked in mine since oct 6

I have yellow jackets trying to get into my hives. We allways have problems with them from Aug--oct's first good frost. Is there anything that I can do to help my bee's?

Whenever I open my hives, I have a yellow jackets try to enter. I have noticed that they are trying to get in all the time. We have a problem with them from about AUG 1- THE FIRST GOOD FROST in Oct. ...

I built a NUC with 5 frames....2 had old comb with some honey & 3 were with foundation. I put a drop or two of lemangrass oil at the entrance and in the back of the box. In about 3 weeks I had...

Ok, I am very new to beekeeping. I have been told by very experienced keepers that a queen takes about ten days to come into laying again. I had a cutout and on day ten I had new eggs. So I say check...

What should I do next? I was going to leave them in the same spot or should I move them to a new location?

I did it. Been planing this for weeks and today it was 70 and time to just do it. I have never had bees but have been asking lots og questions. It was in a old kids tree house I built years ago. I...

I will cutout in a few days. I will get inside pic's then. The colony has been there for a few years. It is 16" wide by 5'high. That is the wall space it could be in.

This colony is in a old tree house. I have decided to do a cut out when the weather gets warmer. They are very active and look to be healthy. Look for your self and let me know what you think.

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Thanks guys, but if I didn't read right then what was the person freezing to help with the split of his hive?

I read somewhere that you could freeze a frame of brood and then pull it out when you need it. Brood is young bee's , do they survive. I read that the beekeeper used the frozen brood fore splits....

The weather is not quite warm enough yet but when it turns I want to be ready. I have a couple nucs ready for swarm traps and want to know what kind of lure works best. generally need help getting...

I am new to this and don't understand when people are talking about useing nuc's on top of deeps and other references. Can you explain when you would use a nuc vers deeps. Aren't the nucs just for...

I have a feral hive in a tree house wall. On nice days they are flying and cllecting pollen. I have built a lang hive and think it would be best to trap the bee's as they leave the hive, What is the...