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Hi Beepro,
I am the beekeeper. The farm group grows food and then shares it among the members, according to how much work each person did. They also give some food to the local people. Before me...

Yes, I did see eggs-not a complete frame. This is what is so odd. The failing hive was a two deep going into the winter. I first looked at the bottom deep and all the brood is dead, some of which...

The two hives that were next to this tough little queen hive are 25 day old packages. One package has a laying queen with capped brood one and a half frame worth. The other package lost it's queen. I...

Hi Beepro,
I set aside frames I will toss. There are some frames with honey that I may keep for the bees but some of the honey in the frame is a little fermented. I think tomorrow I will take a...

I found a queen in a hive I was taking apart. There was only a handful of bees and a queen. What is even more amazing is that before I found the queen I saw a frame with eggs. I thought the eggs must...

I bought one of those plastic extracting tub with the wooden bar across it. I never use it.

Well, I don't like rats or rodents. I ended up having to throw away about ten deep drawn brood frames. There was this black substance down the front of the brood frames with honey. I thought that...

I had a cat. I never had problems with mice when I had that cat. A cat would keep the mice down. A rat would eat a cat. Brad Bee, a good book to read is "Rats." It is non-fiction. There is one...

I will have to look tomorrow. I always thought it was an odd practice installing mouse guards while leaving the upper entrance open. The bees do need an upper entrance in the North. I had two hives...

I reversed my hives today. There was a rodent nest in each of the hives. Here is the question. I put mouse guards on this fall. Each of the hives has a 5/8 vent hole in the upper deep super. Do...

I store chunks of bee candy in the freezer. When I need to use some candy, I take the candy out and let it dry out in the room. The candy absorbs moisture from the freezer; so, yes it does need to...

We don't have live TV anymore. Now, we don't have live Beesource and some of it was very funny. Anyways, Beesource is a great resource and I appreciate it.

Yes, I am also thinking that a dead queen in the cage means there is a good possibility of another queen in the hive. There is no harm in waiting in my opinion. You could contact your bee supplier...

I also had the same thing happen to me. I installed a couple of packages almost a week ago. The queen cage was empty in one hive. I assume the queen is out. Also the bees had built a little comb by...

In theory a "bee chute" sounded good. Maybe the "bee chute" would have worked with the inner cover off. I was tired of shaking a thankless swarm into an empty hive. The solution was to extend the...

Are the bees drowning in the hive top feeder? Is your hive level because I think the hive needs to be level? Sometimes the bees will make comb right underneath the hive top feeder.

Thanks Bevy's honeybees for the information. It looks like one teaspoon or capful of bleach to a gallon of water for disinfecting the frames by this site.

I want to disinfect a some frames and add new foundation. The bees died from varroa complex. I don't have a spray bottle so I will just use a cloth to wipe down the frames. So how much water do I add...

I have used HoneyBee Healthy with a hivetop feeder. The bees love it. When I was finished feeding the HB syrup I used the feeder as a water source. I set the hivetop feeder on top of some concrete...

Next time wear a hoodie with that veil. You will not have any bees sneaking in.

Yes, the smoker should be lit and the beekeeper and observers should be in uniform-so to speak. I know what you mean about attaching human emotions to the animal/insect kingdom. Once I was at a...

Dear Bee Whisperer,
Please turn to page 22 in the book Life of the Honeybee by Heiderose and Andreas Fischer-Fischer-Nagel (a Carolrhoda nature watch book) ISBN 0-87614-241-2. There is a great photo...

I want to post some pictures of the swarm bucket. Someone took some pictures of the swarm bucket today. Later on I will receive these pictures in my email. So I plan to post the pictures from my...

Do you think that a 4 inch louver will be enough ventilation for a swarm bucket? I just cannot decide what to do with the top. A family member made the swarm bucket for me. The swarm bucket can...

Hi Beepro,
Are you using your sponge holder like a very small frame feeder? I looked at your photos again and it looks like the wick is coming up between the frames. The ziplock baggie is inside...