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I have an old extractor that has what looks like either silver barn paint on the inside racks that is flaking off in small amounts. I'd like to coat over those racks with something that is food...

Dealing with a hive that has laying workers is dicey. Sometimes they can be rehabilitated by adding brood and queen cells. Your success in introducing a laying queen may be something that happens...

Folks talking about inspecting hives in shorts and a tee shirt crack me up. I've been keeping bees for a long time. I remember the days as a child when my dad would rob my grandfather's bees and...

Back in March I had six or eight hives with unusually large die offs. Double handfulls of bees dead in front of the entrances. I attributed it to yellow Jasmine. I have one hive that is still...

You can use what is called the Demaree Method. If you are operating with a double deep then put her and some brood in one brood chamber and set it aside. Remove all queen cells from broth brood...

My experience has been that if you don't get the hive jammed full of food before it gets cold in the fall it is nearly impossible to get enough in to get them ahead. Where I live I can get enough...

If you haven't had a problem before I wouldn't worry about it. The time to do preventative treatment is for six weeks beginning in late january.

Of course copper is safe in a hive. Can't imagine that it actually affects mites but just for kicks I'll place a stick of 1/2 inch copper pipe on the bottom board of a few hives, count mites on...

If you are working with a double deep then you won't need an excluder between them since you will be trying to get as much brood as possible in both boxes. The short answer is that the hive raising...

Greg,

the standard package is 3 pounds. If you don't receive them until may in Covington then you need to expect to feed them about a quart of syrup every week or so until september to keep them...

Hi Sally,

The first consideration needs to be how many bees are in the hive that you want to split. The success of the split is going to be related to the number of bees you leave in both splits....

The chance of getting ahb from georgia packages is probably zero. There's just no significant presence of ahb in Georgia. There is at least one large supplier that I have gotten queens from whose...

I probably need to add that the count was "sugar shake" on 200 bees done before, during and at the end of two weeks. I just didn't see any evidence that mites were being killed. Maybe I had a bad...

3 hives that were crashing, 3 frames of bees with little or no brood and 30 count mite loads. After two treatments still 30 count mite loads. All three were ultimately robbed out and the mites were...

I tried it and it was totally ineffective. Mite counts before and after were unchanged. Maybe I had a bad batch but I won't be purchasing it again.

Just start giving them a frame of brood (eggs) every couple of weeks. It is possible that there is a queen that is sterile. If so they might not draw a queen cell w/o removing her. I have a hive...

120 degrees Fahrenheit for 24 hours is supposed to disinfect nosema on combs. Does anyone know if this treatment will kill efb as well?

"thymol is a powerful fungicide" That might explain why I saw a huge decrease in chalkbrood about the time I started using apiguard.

Just wanted to offer an update after doing mite counts after treating 25 hives with oxalic acid trickle. Most of the hives had no brood or very little brood. Pre treatment mite counts via sugar...

The first hives had only a small amount of brood. The current hives are broodless. I believe the amount of oxalic total volume was the same. Either my syrup was more or less diluted than it should...

A few weeks ago I began experimenting with o/a trickle. The fist batch I tried seemed not to work on a couple of test hives. Mixed a new batch Saturday and treated ten hives. Went back this am and...

You could probably use the stuff that caterers use to warm trays. It comes in a can, they light it in the can and it burns for hours. Someone could probably figure out how much is needed to provide...

It has been three days and I'm still counting the same number of mites using the sugar roll test. Any thoughts?

thankfully not, but considering the times you have to be prepared for anything...:):)

You need to determine your mite load even if you have already treated for mites. Not all treatments work. I have a hive I treated with hop guard that is overrun with mites (30plus mites per 200...