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a good bee keeper uses his hands and feet while working a hive. :p

I use abstinence, I only have one hive and only for one year, but my bees love me. I have not been stung yet. Knock on wood. :)

I've also been using pine straw and grass. I recently collected the Red pods from a Sumac shrub (not poison sumac). Our local bee keepers say it works great. I will let you know in the spring when...

Great videos, and I would like to see more. You talk about your high bred bees. Are they as gentle as Italians?

If there is a poppy blooming my bees are in it.

This is my first year and I just have one hive. Next year I'm thinking about building a mini green house around the hive in the late fall to help them get through the winter. I hope the girls make it...

I dug up this old thread. Any bee keepers in the Roscommon - Higgins Lake area??

I worked in Alaska on a survey crew during the middle 70's. We used to have black bears raid our camps and one of the cooks had a novel solution. He took a heavy duty balloon and put a solution of...

It seem like every time I go into the hive I crush one or two bees. I am trying to be real careful. Is that normal? I hate killing even one.

I have capped brood. Gonna start having a lot more bees soon.

do the bees like it??

where did you find black foundation?

I checked my hive today and I am pretty sure I saw the queen. I took some burr comb off and when I got it in the house I could see the eggs in the bottom of the cells.Yeah :applause:
It all went...

I am going to open my hive for the first time tomorrow. I will wear gloves. I don't have what it takes to go bare handed yet. I hope my bees are doing well. It's killing me having to wait.