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An option: Order a pkg, remove the frames of drone brood, place them in plastic bag making sure they are air tight and freeze them. Before the pkg arrives remove the frozen brood from the...

Thanks much for your input! I've used the nuc but did not recombine with newspaper, I've also fed them but started to feed the same day I introduced the queen.
It's in the details!!! The things...

Try putting an excluder over the bottom board nd the deep you have the queen in over the excluder. Try clipping the queen before hiving her, many unmated queens or queens who have been mated but...

I recently bought a 3# pkg from tabers honey bee genetics. The pkg arrived 5 days instead 3-4 most of the bees were dead. A few bees shook from another hive helped, I removed 5 frames from a deep,...

What is the best way to introduce a queen of one race to a hive of another? I am trying to introduce Carniolan queens to hives of Itialians and Buckfast. Pulling the old queen for a day or two...

The WBC hive is an old English hive. It is not the same dimensions as the langstroth and therefore frames and wooden ware are not interchagable. It is not well suited to modern beekeeping,...

A frame spacing tool can be purchased from; Simpsons Bee Supply, 15642 Tiger Valley Road, Danville OH 43014. (740)393-2111 or (740)599-7914. e-mail; csimpson@knox.net.

There are others who sell...

Will bees draw foundation if they have plenty of stores in the have in late winter(mid March)? Or will I still have to feed them syrup? They still have 4 full frames of honey and honey and pollen...

The polyurathane products by New Age Porducts do not warp, they are in fact quite rigid and do not require a center support.
If heated beyond 230 degs, you can bend them, but they will return to...

Try New Age Product, Ray sells molded polyurethane telescoping covers, inner covers and bottom boards. I use them and find them quite satisfactory. They are about 1 inch thick, indestructable, and...