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Switch the boxes if the bees are actively flying. No need to tear apart and hunt for the queen as it sounds like they (and you) have had enough digging today.

If you had the queen in the original...

Here's a couple I recently ran across:

http://desmoines.craigslist.org/grd/3197870044.html

http://kansascity.craigslist.org/bfd/3139166263.html

http://www.meyerhoneyfarms.com/clips.html

Seeing same thing here with basswood. We do not have large natural stands like MN but there are quite a few in town. They normally bloom second week of June but just opened up a week or 10 days...

"QUOTE"Originally Posted by KQ6AR
I can't believe they would travel that distance when there is a river right by the hives."QUOTE"

"QUOTE"This, too is true....bees being the efficient creatures...

May 2010 (pp. 505-506) and 2011 (pp. 508-509) both have abstracts of research articles presented at winter meetings regarding this. Nosema was the target pest in these studies.

The 2010 article...

http://www.beesource.com/forums/showthread.php?t=249471

Discussed in recent thread. Never used the plastic bar but use jzbz's plastic cells with great success. Most anything jzbz produces is a...

Homan's at Shannon have an ad in Jan ABJ on page 76. 662-767-3880 or 662-401-3254

They do. Don't see many colonies run on 6 ways in this area. More common I believe with pollinators to increase timely handling by half. For nuc making and honey production like occurs between...

Copper napthenate is the best all around for good preservative characteristics and bee toxicity tolerance.

Dadant has this product called Perm-E8 which is 8% active ingredient. It can be...

After cutting to length (18 1/4"?) I rip up pressure treated 2X dimension lumber to 2 1/4" wide. 2X4's don't work so well because only 3 1/2" wide and only get one with rest waste or can be ripped...

If your are talking about migratory from the north there are quite a few. Most are in East Texas in the piney woods more east central to southeast. But farther north in NE Texas and even SW...

http://www.beesource.com/forums/showthread.php?t=244246

He also had nucs.

The complexion of wintering bees in the Midwest (and country for that matter) with even the best and most diligent management practices changed remarkably starting about 30 years ago.

Prior to...

We are getting off topic some. Jim is correct about restocking with packages being the exception rather than rule.

Now in Canada and premite (and quarantine since mid 80's) it was standard...

I don't think you intended for it to sound like that but this little quip could be construed as such. And a valuable service it was at the time they were needed, though for some the jury is still...

If it ropes it's AFB. Get some antibiotics on if so inclined, otherwise destroy.

Arizona does not have any apiary inspection services according to:
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A spent 12 gauge shotgun shell works great. Need to make a slice down the plastic side for that part to fit but then the brass seats very nicely.

Many of the uncapped larvae are in a row or line. Could be a wax worm burrowing underneath killing the pupae.

Got to hand it to you for hangin' in there. Anyone with a SHB infestation gone amuck knows your pain. You are at the worst and come next spring there is new life. You have the perseverance to...

Best defense against Small Hive Beetles is a strong colonies and good cultural practices.

Once there has been an infestation and emergence of a number of adult beetles in an apiary they can over...

Because of the honeybee's hoarding and storing of surplus nectar we often overlook the fact that they have to eat too. Even when not storing in honey supers they are collecting and consuming nectar...

When you said 'Italians' you said it all. Great brooders and builders but poor managers of stores.

Feed feed feed..... and you will have something to work with in spring.

If there is still...

I would take any combs without brood and leave the brood above an excluder until it hatches. Shake the bees off to make sure the queen is below the excluder.

I wouldn't leave on for winter as the...

Aluminum phosphide is labeled for beehive use per Section 21.9 on page 18 of the applicators maunal:

http://www.cdms.net/LDat/ld2RS006.pdf

It is restricted use and requires Commercial Pesticide...