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yea i think mine are way more hateful at night...they KNOW something shouldnt be messing with them after dark! Maybe they are like my wife....hummm

So last night on Duck Dynasty they were attempting to gather honey from a hive. A few things disturb me about this episode. First of all this hive was hanging from a tree limb not inside a hollow...

find the queen thats laying drones and kill her....replace and enjoy. Been there done that! I dont think they will supercede her, at least mine didnt. Almost cost me a hive!

absolutely correct...i am very behind...new job and it gets dark early..stinks

in looking in my hives this weekend i noticed one that had no brood and an almost empty lower brood box. i did see a queen but it was not my marked queen and she appeared very skinny. I figured she...

do you leave them on until cool weather then push the bees back into the brood boxes? Maybe leave them till the fall flow is over? do you extract fall honey as well?

ill have two deeps on through the dearth

Im near ft smith arkansas and this summer has been hot and dry, it seems we had no spring at all! Im wondering if I should go ahead and extract now to prevent everything from being eaten. It looks...

yea we had warm then cold and wet then bad storms and floods and now dry and hot. My bees were drawing out a whole 10 frame medium is just over a week and now they are bad slow. Ive still got some...

ft smith area

Have any of you in the AR area noticed the bees have all but stopped wrawing comb? Has the heat and dryness shut down the flow? What are you seeing in your area?

Will you please watch this video and tell me what my bees are doing?

Thanks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y08foLqxQt0

yup been ordering from mann due to the free shipping..i like their frames and boxes a lot more than dadants too! i tried the BM free shippind deal and was told no. I quit using BM last year when...

crud..well hopefully it was already there or the ones i left are good. I did see a queen take off out of a swarm cell as i was fixing to remove it. I guess shes got a shot then. Ill check then in...

After a hive swarms...and mine did...both on the same day actually! Anyways after a hive swarms what happens with all of the queen and swarm cells. I realize they will hatch but if the hive has a...

Yea I wondered about the direct sunlight issue. Besides SBH what else do we need direct sunlight for? It seems the bees know it's daylight and are bringing in plenty of pollen so far.

Yes shb did come to mind but since it's concrete under them they can't get to the ground to pupate right? They are also facing west and was concerned about the wind.

My concern is the bees will think its not raining and get out and get in the rain and die. This was an old dog pen and thought it might work out well.
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Someone thats very familiar with Chaffee and the Cuban Rock Festival!

You don't find it odd that different hives in different locations are behaving similar?

No I'm not sure it's the same queen. They haven't bothered me at all till this week. I may have to dig and see what's there. I'm not sure that te africanized bees have reached here yet

My brother and I both have a couple hives that are about 17 miles apart. He called me yesterday telling me how he tried to mow around his hives and the bees came after him. As usual I thought he was...

i had the same thing happen but i think mine were starving. Still not real sure. I few a gallon to each hive and no more mass dead. I opened the hives today and saw decent stores....well i guess...

kinda what i thought...i have no idea what they may be

Ive noticed the last few times i have opened my hive I have seen tiny little bugs scurry around the inner cover. They arent SHB's. Can they be Varroa? I figured if they were mites then they would...