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Thanks for your input. I really don't know what it is. I came across this picture on wikipedia, and thought "now that looks really familiar". But I don't remember exactly what it looked like. ...

Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately I am very familiar with broom sage.. but that's not what this is. This is a leafier plant (as seen in the first pic), that did bloom.. but I can't remember if...

I know it is probably hard to tell, but can anyone tell me if this is goldenrod?

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Here is another pic that shows all of the dead stalks from last...

Yeah. that is the problem with a newb like me getting advice from other beekeepers. They all have different opinions of what the best thing to do is!

That is kind of what I am leaning towards.

Just thinking out-loud here.. but what if I add mediums (as it grows) to the bottom, will they keep the brood down low, and I'd eventually be able to...

The spacers are screwed in, so I would need to move all the frames into a different deep box in order to remove them. I'm fine with doing this, I just don't know if it is a good idea as far as...

Good to know, I thought the spacers were mainly just for use in honey supers, with fully drawn frames.

The full hive plus the 5+ lbs of bees in it was $175. You can certainly find hives for less, but this is a locally well known "strain" of bees that is known to be very disease and mite resistant,...

You wouldn't worry about the 9 frame spacer in the brood box?

The cedar should be fine. There are lots of reputable companies that make and sell cedar hives.

No, I don't have any drawn medium frames. Just getting started this year.

I just bought a hive from a local beekeeper, with some bees that swarmed out of one of his hives a just a few days ago. It is a local "survivor" bee that he has had untreated for the last 5 years. ...

The cedar wasn't too aromatic. I don't think that was an issue. It was dry aged lumber.

I have been in each hive exactly twice. The second time was, I feel, out of necessity.

Hive 1:
day 3 inspection
day 4 to verify that all the bees really were gone (as it appeared to be from the...

I will get some boards to put under the screens to close them up asap.

Hive 2 appears to be queenless, and has very low numbers of bees too :(

Should I try to get a queen and save it, or are...

Interesting. I hadn't read many negatives on the screened bottom boards. I will try that.

Interesting. Seemed very straight forward and easy to do to me using the proper equipment. I am quite certain that neither queen was damaged.

They were both very young, and may have had issues...

Killervector, no. none of the hive is treated, just the hive stand where some syrup was leaked on.

In hind sight, I think you guys are right about not releasing the queen. I knew from the...

Unfortunately.. I was looking into it some and wood is treated for bugs. Which, along with fungus is what causes rot and decay. This is mainly to prevent wood eating/boring bugs though.. so I'm not...

Yeah, I have heard from multiple sources that they will often draw comb on foundationless faster than foundation(which they seem to be doing in hive 2) so I wanted to try that. But I think you are...

First off, I am new to this. So I knew it would be a learning experience. Having done a ton of reading and research, I kinda thought my success level would be a little higher than it has been so...

Thank you everyone for the very informative answers. Now I just need to get my wood ;)

Thanks for the reply. I was thinking that may have been the purpose of the taper, but I wasn't sure.

I have looked at Mr. Bush's page, as well as several other posts and sources relating to it...

First off, Hello from NC. I'm new to beekeeping and plan on getting a few packages to start off this spring. I am also starting off by building all of my own hives, frames, etc. using all medium...