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Use MDO plywood for your lids and the plies will not separate over time. I won't use plywood for the box

Stay in touch with Mr. Talbert. He's a good source of info.

I like it.

I have a couple of hives that are near the land owner's peach trees and they want to treat their peach trees with something organic that will not affect my bees. They want to treat them to keep the...

What kind of hive do you plan to use? Will you extract using the traditional method you mentioned in the earlier post?

What crops are being grown in the area around you? Are there cotton crops?

What type of lumber do you have access to?

Do you have access to electricity?

How is the honey currently being...

Doug,

Where are you at in Sudan?

Charlie.........I am glad that you posted this.

I am a hobby beek transitioning to a sideliner who, after reading this thread, will be branding all my equipment (frames and boxes) as I grow. I now...

Doug, this is interesting that you are out there doing this and helping these folks. Thank you.

How about this idea? Pool the resources of your group and have 5 people share 1 good quality veil...

If I have a lot of drone brood and the hives are doing really well can I do walkaway splits this early?

I keep double deep brood boxes and I was just planning on splitting the hive bodies and...

If you are starting with a nuc and you have a good flow of nectar you could possibly harvest some surplus honey. But, don't be tempted to take what you should be leaving for the bees.

Most of my...

I learned that when the old salts of beekeeping tell me to open up my hives and inspect them regularly that I had better do it. And if they are loaded with v.mites then I better treat.

I've also...

If I graft so early in the year that there aren't sufficient drones for the queens to mate with, what are the dangers? Will they just mate when drones are available or what happens to them?

If you are looking for country that is more open and not so heavily forested then this suggestion is correct. The commercial beek I do business with winters his hives just east of Madisonville (edge...

Does anyone here have any pros and cons on hauling bees with a flatbed gooseneck trailer?

If I'm successful with my spring splits this year I'm going to need to be able to move those hives to a...

I was online this morning and noticed the thread shown in the link below:...

Plan on buying more bees. I'm serious.

You need to treat.

Olivia, I agree with Chevy.

Another reason to buy your woodenware at first is to actually see how it should be made if you do decide to make it own your own (which eventually you will if you like...

Hopefully we can meet up some day and my info can get me a free home brew beer!

If you are visiting the state and just checking it out then go down around Fredricksburg and on to San Antonio....

I have the 20 frame Dadant and love it. And when I say 20 frame I am talking about 20 frames from deeps.

You can find what you want in the Tyler area. Its not largely covered with National Forests which in east TX are primarily used as pine plantations and not natural vegetation as you would think....

dabb............where are you looking at moving to in east texas?

I agree with you Jim. I would think that anyone stealing hives with bees in them would have to have at least some beekeeping background. Especially in this case. I think it was someone who was a...

This is really eye opening. For someone to be able to steal over 100 doubles deeps and not be noticed is kind of scary. If the hives were on pallets and especially if they were connected to the...

My lack of experience as a beekeeper keeps me from being able to make a good guess.

However, I would not think that a hive would swarm that late in the year and it is probably from a v.mite...