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You could try "Wild Mountain Bee Supply", he may have some nucs still. The website is wildmountainbees.com. I've gotten all my bees and anything else I'e needed from Jon Christie, the owner, he's...

Here in the NC Mountains, the bees have been bringing in maple nectar - I'm not sure if there are any nectaring plants where you are in NC. This and the next few weeks are crucial for making sure...

Bsquad, I hadn't thought about that! Hopefully there will be no need.... Maqs has been done and they are still taking feed. Maybe they will make it through. If anything, i'm certainly learning more...

Thank you all for your advice. I've decided to treat them and watch their weight..... If worse comes to worst I'll combine. Thankful for the break from freezing weather where I can treat and feed!...

I have 2 hives and this is my 2nd year beekeeping. This year I decided to try sugardusting the bees for varroa treatment for 6 weeks. Today would have been my final day to treat. When I opened the...

could the flower be Dames Rocket?

There were some eggs/larvae, but the cut-out was difficult, and resulted in a lot of damaged comb. I don't think I got the queen because a couple days after we left the house (leaving behind a small...

I did a cut out a 3 weeks ago - took some feral black bees home to add to my 2 hive apiary. I'm pretty sure I didn't get the queen, and yesterday I took a look inside - I didn't see any brood, just...

Last year was my first year with bees, and one of the hives swarmed after 2 months! It was a booming hive, and being a new beekeeper, I didn't recognize that I needed to be split! My neighbors, who...

Black feral bees! Thanks for the clarification. These were definitely hot bees. I got stung badly on my foot - and my husband got a nice sting on the face, we both swelled up like watermelons! Having...

Thanks for the video.... That is one massive colony!

On Saturday, I did my first cut out, out of a rental house (I work for the rental agency) that had called. Going into my second year of beekeeping, I was excited to try out a cut-out, with the help...

A beekeeper in our area (with a 100 hives) rents his for $20 for a 2-day period, but his is only a 4 frame extractor!

Thanks for the advice. I ended up combining the hives via the newspaper method. I'll try a split later when I can order a queen!

I shook a lot of the bees off (I was worried about accidentally adding the queen), but there were still a decent number on the frames when I added them. Do you think I should go ahead and combine...

I'm just going into my second year, so I'm not an expert - but the last few weeks I've seen both of my hives bringing in pollen lately. When I opened the weaker of the two, I was surprised because...

Hi! I'm a second year beekeeper in Western NC.

I got two hives last April - one swarmed in July of last year, I think it must have been overcrowded. Unfortunately, it never really recuperated...