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Thanks! I only have one hive, but I have friends who do beekeeping and we might be able to get some frames from them if their hives are strong and threatening to swarm!

So to be clear, you're...

Hi there,

Thanks. This makes some sense, though I don't see how it will keep insects out. Still, it might give them a smaller place to police, so that could help.

Hi, Mr. Beeman,

Sorry, as a pretty new beekeeper, I don't actually know what you mean by that. :)

Hi! I posted just before the winter worrying that we wouldn't be able to over-winter our new, struggling hive up here in Massachusetts, but it turns out they survived! (The tar-paper, granulated...

Thanks so much for all the info!

One last thing...might it be just as good to tar-paper the hive, maybe put a bit more of a windblock around it, and leave it outside?

Thanks! This all sounds highly doable. Just a couple of followups:

-Are you talking about like a five-pound bag of sugar?

-As far as moving them: any strategies you suggest for that? I was...

Hi everyone! I just started a hive in May, with a nucleus, and I think the queen died at some point. I was a somewhat neglectful beekeeper, as the person who was meant to help me disappeared and I...