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Oh now they're just playing games with me. They've gone back from the rose bush to the hole in the wall as evening approached. Never fear, I shall continue to try.

I just received a call from the homeowner.

Does it happen if you mess up a hive that the bees just decide to leave? He says many of them are in the box, going in and out, but it looks like a few...

Even with a trapout you still have to get the remaining comb out. The pest issue.

Actually I talked to a beekeeper in my area (semi-retired) and a contractor. Both say it is better to cut the drywall but to defer to the owner.

And the occupant said he'd ask his landlord.

I...

Acually I'm about to do my first cut out.

I saw pictures, and it looked like the hive was in a secluded area in the eaves. Most of it was, I even found brood in the external hive.

Then, once...

Yes, no groove on the bottom, only on the top. No side grooves either. Perhaps my particular frames cannot handle Duragilt. I purchased these frames at the Los Angeles Honey Company, I only bought...

My duragilt foundation is just a little narrower than the frames I have.

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Having destroyed foundations, I ordered some wax coated duragilts.

So now I've got a question. How do I attach it?

My wooden frames have some holes on the side where the wire went through on...

Yeah, I've been told it's the speed.

I try slower, the honey stays in the comb. I try faster it breaks apart. I try turning the frames around often in order to relieve any centrifugal forces that...

I cannot seem to operate an extractor without destroying the comb. I just ordered some foundations from Betterbee to make up for my inability to do this.

How do you not destroy comb?

Or if you...

Good news.

My swapping of three frames worked. Now I have brood again. I even saw the queen.

My bottom box was starting to fall apart, so this time I went in it was to swap the box itself -...

Thanks both. Natureboy, your advice is good to remember next time I spin the combs but ... the frame with the new comb is already somewhat tattered and I wish to know what to do with tattered come....

So I just did my first ever harvest, thanks to a honey-bound hive. I swapped three frames of nothing but honey for three empty frames.

And I just spun the frames in an extractor.

My first...

Mine's becoming honey bound as well. I have one hive, a new one with a single deep super. It filled up, so I added a second deep super. It's full, so I added a queen exluder and two shallow supers...

The funnel, does the big end point at the hive entrance or away from the hive entrance?

As I have been told, if you do a trap-out, eventually the queen stops laying and later swarms with what is...

Yeah, I understand why house bees need to be cut instead of trapped. But if someone can help me with how to trap out the tree bees I would appreciate it. So I need some way to enable them to leave...

Yeah, I think I will need to know more about a trap. So you have a way for bees to leave a hive but not re-enter. I've seen those in the catalogs for hives, a plank that forces toe bees to turn...

A friend of my wife has a hive living in a tree near her house, and another friend has a hive living in a wall of her house.

Since they know I am an amateur bee keeper, they asked me about...

Good news. I thought my hive was, well, kaput. Dying, you know.

They even rejected the replacement queen.

So I decided to wait for it to die and then try again next year (this year).

Well,...

I ordered a new queen. When the sugar hole was finally broken through she did not survive. I don't know if it took to long or if they rejected her. I think the population is falling in my hive...

This year just one. I hope I still have one by the end of winter.

It looks unpopulated because the bees are barely working some of the frames.

I started with 10 frames, five of them empty and five of them full of purchased brood, bees, honey, and pollen. Then,...

Unfortunately I only have one hive. I know where I might get a frame with eggs, that might be my best way to get more queens if my hive is as queenless as I fear it is.

Do either of those...

While I didn't brush the bees aside for that picture, it was one of the emptier frames. Other frames weren't nearly as empty, some were very heavy frames full of bees, capped brood, and honey.
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So on the show Frasier, a caller was describing a problem. When he stops, Frasier says "Either you need to check into the nearest mental institution immediately, or you are a first year psych...