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Thank you so much fur, this is exactly the info I am looking for.i can't find black walnut here in southeastern NC, but we do have juniper. I will try that with a sticky board to see if the mites...

The fatbeeman on u tube suggest a small amount of walnut shavings along with mostly pine straw. Not enough to create pure black walnut smoke. Does any one know of any other beekeeper who has tried...

I don't know how to.can you pm me? Ha. Does anyone else know if this works? I know that it is bad for horse bedding. The toxins are bad on there feet.

Does anyone know who might sell them,shavings,or chips?

I have read Michael Bushes new book The Practical beekeeper this winter over and over, Love it.i love his method of moving the queen and her open brood to another box,leaving the capped brood, and...

I saw on u tube the fat beeman using black walnut shavings in his smoker to rid the mites. I also heard tobacco smoke was also good for this. Dose anyone know a good source to get shavings or chips...

What part of NC, I am in Wilmington ,in south east NC.

Ther are many wasp and yellowjacket traps on line and on u tube. Don't kill the bees we need them!

A yellow jacket trap with raw fish near your feeder will draw the yellow jackets away, they are carnivorous . But not the honey bee.

If you put a yellow jacket trap near your bee feeder with fresh fish in it or raw hamburger with some apple juice the yellow jackets will go to it but not the bees.

fill your feeder with cut up pinestraw the bees will walk on it and not drown

cut pinestraw into 2 or 3 inch strips fill the bucket up with straw.then fill with surp,bees will not drown. add surp when needed, the girls love it.

i like to recycle my plastic icecream tubs, just cut pinestraw into 3 inch strips fill the bucket 3/4 full of the straw,add surp then set on two wood strips on top of brood box, and cover with a...

On the con side, the nurse bees stop feeding the babies, too clean themselves, the queen will not lay in the now dirty cell, the dust actually chokes the bees, all the nice little open brood
Gets...

Thanks snapper that's what I wanted to find out. My bees are still bringing in nectar and pollin, still making honey, but just not drawing out new cone. Didn't want to pull there honey until Sept. I...

I am selling my honey. I don't want to take the chance off selling sugar honey. Can I set up a Nuc, and feed them surp to draw wax? How many bees? Should they be queenless?

When taking honey from my deeps I dont always have drawn cone to put back.When I put frames with new foundation in they ignor it, or chew it. Is there a way I can use a Nuc for only drawing out cone?

Powdered sugar works only to prompt the bees into cleaning themselves therefor wiping the mites off so that some fall threw the screen bottom board, not very effective for containing the mites. The...

Mark the super. It can be used to draw cone, can not eat or sale.

It's a balancing act. The bees will not waste there resources ( honey ) to build more space ( drawn cone ) to store something the do not have ( nectar ). The queen will not lay eggs and give the...

Stop feeding, if there source of food is that close they will not learn to forage, why work when it's free ( welfare bees ). Don't eat the honey, it's not honey anyway. This is a great opportunity...

I meant my wife, not my wide. Ha

Yes that's what I use. Shave it off fine and put it in a water sorce for them ( they love my wides fountain ) the salt will give your honey a great taste.

The bees are after the salt. You need to give them salt like any other critter on earth, if they continue to get it from manure your honey will carry the smell,trust me on that one. I have smelled it...

Hi everyone from sunny Wilmington N.C.