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If your selling them, mark them with the proper color and record where your grafts came from.

If these are for your "mother" queens, then color them whatever you want. They are your queens.

I almost always work mine without smoke... Unless I'm doing something exciting, it's rarely worth firing up the smoker. With that said, I know which hives are going to be a problem and which ones...

That could be a cologne/shampoo scenario.

It's impressive to see how much bees hate banana's and love lemon grass.

If I crack the lid with smoke and there are 10 more bees bouncing off my veil, I look at replacing them. I don't mind if them are buzzing around, but if they are trying to kill me then it's not...

The premise behind the Hogan trap is that the hive you place an extension of the original hive. The queen moves up into the trap hive to see who is laying eggs in her kingdom. Once you place the...

I've done trap outs behind bricks. It takes more than a month+ to get everyone out. The queen is still in there laying ends, she will eventually be forced out.

Also, you could try one of the...

Can you contact your State Bee people? In TN, it's a criminal offense for anyoner other than the land owner or the state guy to kill bees. Much less trespass on private property and kill private...

I think your similar weather to West TN. Splits that late in the year would be pretty rough. You'd need to make a healthy split and feed like crazy.

Late Sept/Early October is the latest that...

Thanks for the advice. Gotmead looks to be another website.

I've never learned enough about beers to know what I like. (lol)

I don't like really hoppy beers. How is this one?

I was curious if anyone has a recipe for a pumpkin pie mead?

I've got a traditional orange blossom mead and black/blueberrry cyser cooking. I'd like to start a pumpkin that will be ready for...

I wonder if anyone has tried a tank that is made closer to the size of a super/deep... Kind of like a donut, with an empty center. You would need a lot less wax/rosin?

I'm working on building...

I built mine after a video on you tube. similar to the one that hivebodies.com sells for a grand. wonder how much they would really sell for.

I have a cypress mill near me, but I don't know the "lingo" that I should use. So how does the board foot measurement work?

If it's .80 cents a board foot, how much does it work out to per medium...

That looks like the stock frame feeder sold by Mann Lake. He added a hole to stick the funnel in.

I've got a couple thousand Mann Lake frames and have yet to get a bad frame.

I bought 60 Kelly foundationless to check them out and broke several on assembly.

Ah.... I had hope that you were fixing to get me some super secrete piece of intel.

*grins*

MBeck,

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Oldtimer,

How can you "know" that the canies were the drones that were successfully mating? Short of DNA testing, I've always wondered around that.

I...

I love how the children are punished for the sins of their fathers....

As far as I can tell, none of these micro producers are even taking orders yet. With that said, the lady that I help with...

Thoughts on forcing bees to lay drones? I'm planning to mate quite a few queens this year and I want to make sure that I have enough drones floating around.

What are the dimensions on your combo box? I like the idea of the standard frame with mini frames.

I'll try both and see if I can document my success/failure.

I really need to figure out a way to feed my bees pollen patties without growing an army of SHB.

All,

Do you have screened bottom boards on your mating nucs? I've read that sometimes the queen will go under the nuc, instead of through the entrance. I wondered if this was really an issue.
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I'm in the same boat with my beekeeping. I always get distracted with making more bees or trying something new. I think I have beekeeping ADHD..

I'm planning to run it as a business this year...

It's easy to get wrapped around the axle trying to find the "best" way to do something. I've gone back an forth on queen castles, 2,3,4 frame medium and deep nucs, mini mating nucs, etc. One of...