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SIZE DOES MATTER!!

There has been a few studies done on this. If I had the time to go back and find the threads with the links I would, but right now I'm doing 10 things at once already. Do a...

Yes, Sue sell to other people. $550 for a breeder queen.

I have lots of boxes for the middle of the vac. hahahah!

I think a bucket is only good for a swarm. Doing cutouts is a whole different ball game. Like said above they just aren't always practical...

Cool!. To bad you missed being able to hive it.

I will give a little advice not just for you but for anyone else out there catching swarms. ALWAYS HAVE EQUIPMENT WITH YOU. I can't stress that...

Scorpi I'll do one better, Here is Robo's blog about it. Picture and instructions. http://robo.bushkillfarms.com/beekeeping/bee-vac/

I've been wanting to do this project for over a year now and finally got around to getting it done. I picked up a used vacuum last year for nothing just for this project. Most everything else I had...

Cool looking, and I really like the idea. My hives are everywhere and one thing that sucks is have to put out a smoker pack it in the car and relight it again. This would so much time. Send one my...

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I found them at a plumbing store a few years ago. They were cheaper there than at a box store.

Lauri, what kind of incubator are you using? ALso can you show us more pics of your mating nucs, I need to make more and am looking for some other design ideas.
Thanks

I use the method David LeFerney posted. I have done several other methods and I find this very easy to use. I also do a few other things. I may have a few more hives than you do but I pick one of my...

Sound like I wan't the only one with the same problem from Pigeon Mountain. The suits I orders took two month to get. I was told everytime I called them that they would be in the end of that week for...

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Camera was a Canon T1i with a Sigma 70-300mm f/4-5.6 DG Macro Telephoto Zoom Lens all mounted on a tripod.

Thought I would just share a quick link on some info you can watch. Its not just the pollen or the corn you have to worry about but the plants around it as well....

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westernbeekeeper, sounds like your are using a good cell builder. try this out (should eliminate and tell you if it is a grafting issue or something else) see how it works. No grafting, starts at...

I shake my nurse bees into my cell starter. Nurse bees should already be producing RJ, no reason to try and get them producing it. I keep it going by adding new brood every 7 to 14 days. Doing this I...

Hot glue gun and hot glue.

I feed pollen sub, make sure they have lots of new bees weekly or every other week, and make sure there is lots of water around for them, I also try and keep them stocked with new grafts so everytime...

I've done the freeze test one many of my breeder hives but I saw a clip in a video the other day where they use a needle and poke the larvea under the cap to kill it and than come back 24 hours later...

I make my queenless cellbuilders (5 frames nuc with lots of bees) 24 hours before I graft and don't have a problem getting them to build cells.

I move cells to an incubator right after they are capped, I have hatch many in the incubator so to have the cells thinned down has little effect on the queen trying to get out. Just like Adrian said,...

I would suggest gathering a few cells that are still full of jelly on day 6 when they cap cells. Just pull out a few of your smallest ones. I store the jelly in a little veil in the fridge so I have...

It works fine as long as you check the frames for queen cells a few days after you put your grafts in. I have found that most of the time if the bees have young enough larvae in frames they will...