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Well, so far so good.... My large 2nd year hive is booming...after I swapped deeps in April (3 weeks ago last Saturday) I checked and the top deep was full of brood also, so I added a super. That...

I see them do something like that sometimes... it tickles me...one bee will bee tugging on another bee, vibrating on it, scouring around the bee's body.... I honestly thought they were cleaning each...

yes we have dandelions, blackberries are blooming, I have white clover in my yard, my apple tree is blooming, but I hardly ever see bees on any of it....I saw someone say something once, about bees...

anyone have any suggestions or ideas?

thanks,
BW

Well, one thing I forgot...I was dumbfounded yesterday when checking the hive and found all the brood, and the queen in the old hive, I didn't check the lower deep! Why would the queen go on vacation...

Yeah, JRG13, I know that....but I hate to put a queen in there for one to be killed.....and actually I would like to have my Carniolan...I had considered taking the feral queen out and putting mine...

I have a hive I started last year, been doing pretty good... It had a mite problem, but I put some Apivar in it, and took it out around March 15th, right before stuff started blooming good. I...

I have my hives on blocks, but the ants come up the blocks after the feeder, but they look like they are going into the hives too....two of mine are new hives with small bee population, and I am...

Heck yeah,
I took the dvd I made to work, everyone is passing it around, they think it's cool as heck!

It should be ok to leave the excluder on til tomorrow shouldn't it? I was hoping to wait until they are established a little more....I hope the rest of the bees in the trap will go in shortly as it...

tommyt ^ Yeah, I caught another swarm about a month ago, and I caught it on video. They were on the ground, and I took a deep with bottom board and put some nasonov in it and put it right beside the...

I watched them Thursday, they were back, but I didn't disturb them....Friday we had cooler temps and rain all day, so I didn't mess with them....Yesterday (Sat), I went and looked in the trap and...

I put it back and put the nasonov back in it... they were flying around it yesterday, maybe 15-20, but more today (fingers crossed) Well, I know there are at least 5 hives in the area... 2 wild that...

It was a bum deal.... don't know what was going on, but bees were flying in and out steadily.... I took it out to the hive and opened it and there were only about 30 bees in it... they came flying...

I had a new swarm I caught a month ago, swarmed on me last Saturday.... Think there were too many for one deep, is all I can figure. Afterward I got my swarm trap out and set it where the swarm had...

That's what I thought too...they had been in the hive 1 month to the day, Saturday. I had just checked the hive Thursday, and brushed the bee ball off the screened bottom, changed the bottom to a...

Well, not good news....I guess seeing the ball of bees on the bottom? they were overcrowded.... Last Thursday we were supposed to have storms coming and I noticed that evening a small ball of bees...

We had a beekeeper's club meeting last night, had a guy with years of experience, was telling us of a researcher he knows (I think it was Jennifer Berry) with the U of GA, said putting tar paper...

I had an extra screened bottom board, so I set it on the tailgate of my truck, picked up the opened hive, set it on the bb, took the bottom board with the ball of bees and shook them off into the...

Good possible reason, johng... I don't have a clue. I finally went ahead and checked my hives today, the older one and the new one. The new one, the swarm of bees on the inside, cover about 3 or 4...

Thanks MW! Cool johng! I wanted to catch some in the new trap I bought this last winter, ain't had a chance to use it... 2 hives is plenty for me. There is a neighbor been interested in bees, I might...

I captured a swarm 2 weeks ago, today, and got them in a hive. I have been feeding them ever since, they looked like they were at home, but today something awesome and scary happened... I was out...

Caught a swarm 2 weeks ago. My wife saw a swarm this afternoon, but didn't watch where they went. I didn't see them around anywhere, and really don't have another hive to put any more in.

thanks...my first catch! oh yeah, there are trees all around...in fact they were probably under the limbs of some big pines...I wonder if the wind knocked the queen down and the bees just stayed with...

No, my queen isn't clipped and these aren't from my hive....I know there are at least 4 wild hives in the area, well 2 wild, one from mine swarming last March, and one that absconded from beetle...