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I'm a second year Beek, so I can't give you much experienced advice, but I can give you some 'been there, done that' advice. There have been several times when I've been in the same position as you...

I can't think of the name off hand, but i bought it at Walmart in the sporting goods section. It's a spray treatment for clothes. I use it for my hunting clothes that I don't wash often. Spray it...

I decided to run my hives without excluders, and was about to post about the issue of queen laying in all the supers. But I was also just pondering about why there was so much drone comb in these...

Good Info, I'm struggling with this also..

My father in law gave me some old bee boxes he got from a friend who passed away. I went through the boxes and salvaged usable frames and boxes and stored them in our barn. I had some of the excess...

I don't own the Mann Lake Extractor. But when I was researching extractors to buy, one of my deciding factors was the gauge steel used. The thicker gauge will stand up better. This unit has 26 gauge...

My surviving Hive has already drawn out and pretty much filled a super, they are working nicely on another (new foundation) I put on Saturday.
I also made a Nuc from this hive.

This is my first...

I'm considering the idea of going from 10 frames to 9.. I looks like my bees seem to leave end frames of my 10 frame boxes relatively untouched (but not completely). I run 1 deep with the rest...

Last year was my first year as a beek with a first year hive started from a package. In July I had 24hr mite drop counts in the hundreds, I treated with three successive Hopguard treatments. After...

I was in your shoes this time last year. My personal experience with foundation was; My hive kits came with wax coated plastic foundation, so thats what I used. I sprayed them with sugar water and...

This past February 2012 I was in the exact same position as you . I knew I only wanted a few hives, I started doing some research and I found this Forum.

After my first year these are some of my...

It is my first year beekeeping, and I too use SBB and live in NW GA. I am not going to do anything with my SBBs. Many people up North in much colder climates don't cover their SBBs.

I'm in pretty much the exact same position as you, but I decided to go with the Maxant 3100H. I think it should be fine for around 10 hives. Whenever I get tired of cranking, I'll order the motor...

I used a piece of Lexan I purchased at Home Depot for $13 on my solar wax melter i made out of a cheap styrofoam cooler. It worked great. Total cost for the melter was under $20 and It only took...

I built a Solar Wax Melter out of a Piece of Lexan and a cheap styrofoam cooler (Idea came From Linda's Bees). It took about 1hr to make and cost me less than $20 (I have enough Lexan left to make...

Thanks for the info,

I used the honey robber, left the board on for 10 minutes. It seemed to do the trick, no problems removing the frames. it stunk, but so far my honey smells and tastes great....

My hives are about 15yds behind my shooting bench so far it doesn't seem to bother them. I haven't done much shooting lately, I was kinda wondering about the impact on the bees too. Glad to see the...

I picked up a fume pad and some honey robber. After applying the honey robber and placing the fume pad on the hive how long does it take for the bees to vacate the super?

Instructions on the...

Good question, I would love to know too. But I'll find out next week :)

Thanks for your reply, but with the way the basket is set up in a triangle with 2 frames each right next to each other (for the 6 radial), you will never have 2 frames directly across from each...

Well I took the advice on this forum and decided to go ahead and purchase a Maxant Extractor. I'm on a budget and have a small bee yard so I decided on the 3100H.
Next weekend I will have 8 medium...

Thanks for the Great Info!

I've decided that I'm gonna use sugar dusting just to keep the mites at bay till I can apply Apiguard.
My real question now is should I go ahead and pull the honey on...

Really?
I'm not doubting you, but I have not heard that before in anything I've read or seen so far. If that's true I don't think I would of used the drop. (I've only done 1 drop, but on both my...

Thanks for the input.
I do plan on using Apiguard, but I was hoping to do my treatment a little later (Late August or early September). I have 1 Honey super on now that is almost full, and soybeans...

Thanks for your input, I'm new so I'm gonna try different treatments so I can decide for myself what works and what doesn't.
I just don't want this thread to turn into a debate about the...