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I am coming out of my first winter and two of my hives died, sad but I'm trying not to dwell. I have a few questions about what to do next. The pictures I attached show three things that I need some...

I have a bad evening experience myself. I heard from an older bee guy that its all about the older field bees being home. They are more likely and eager to sting compared to the younger nurse bees....

So I installed a package in the spring and they haven't filled out three mediums yet. They seem to be doing fine other then population. I have been feeding them which seems to have helped. But I am...

Adam- A metal pail is a great idea. If I had one I would use it. Fire is kind of the reason I added the smoker shelf. Carrying a hot smoker and the bucket and usually a feeder, or a honey super is a...

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I customized my tool bucket to hold my smoker this afternoon. I can't wait to get it out in the field. Anyone else have a custom rig to carry their tools in. Share a pic.

LOL!:lpf: I googled Hozzle, because I thought it was some beekeeping thing I hadn't heard of and this was the first result from urban dictionary:

Hozzle -
A fat overwight lebanese man , who eats...

An interesting time for bees to swarm in this article. Is it common for a nuc to swarm?

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/30/escaped-bees-bring-a-visit-from-the-police/

Cool story about bees delaying a baseball game.


http://content.usatoday.com/communities/dailypitch/post/2012/03/swarm-of-bees-delays-play-in-giants-diamondbacks-game/1#.T7ZONFIw2Hg

The picture isn't great but it was definitely a tint of yellow. What I plan on doing in the future which seems to be the most common method is too boil the water first then remove from heat and...

I thought the same thing this spring when I made my first batch of syrup. If you search you might find my thread. I fed my bees with it and all has been fine. I would say unless it is really brown,...

I just screwed the legs straight to the stand. I am thinking I will have to modify it to be stronger.

So I constructed my own hive stand and attached legs made of 2' pieces of 2x4 to get it off the ground to avoid animal intrusion. I was wondering if the weight of the hive might end up being too...

So I spoke with a beekeeper in Mass yesterday and he said that he had never had very good luck overwintering Italian queens in the New England area, and suggested that if I had the opportunity it...

My little beekeeping experience has taught me that working bees at night is not fun. If you can wait, I'd wait. I went out to re-queen my bees at night and the bees crawled and burrowed everywhere. I...

This is a link from my local news. Probably no africanized bees, but rather just some scared neighborhood people. I'll be paying close attention to why a beekeeper refused a swarm. What do you all...

So my hive is a bustling source of activity today. I really have enjoyed every beekeeping activity I have done so far. I also have been chronicling major and minor events on my blog. If my fellow...

So I got a new queen from the supplier on Tuesday and installed here that night. Which posed an interesting challenge being that I didn't get to my hive until 9 at night. I'll just say I won't be...

I installed a queen from the supplier of my package. Things are looking good so far, thanks for the advice.

I went this afternoon to see if the queen returned. I inspected the hive pulled out the few frames with bees on them and didn't see any queen. Its possible she was hiding somewhere. Although there...

My queen flew the coup. I was hoping I could find a beekeeper in the southern New England I could buy a frame of eggs from so my new package might rear their own queen. Please send me a PM if you are...

So yesterday I installed my first package. All went rather well even though I was stung about 6 times. I read somewhere that giving the queen a day with the cork in in the hive was good to make sure...

So I just finished my first install. It was AWESOME! Really it went as scheduled. I started without gloves and was stung almost right away on the thumb so I slipped on my gloves and went to work. I...

Thanks everyone. I think I'm going to use the syrup, I am installing tomorrow. I will use some for now and make a new batch and mix it with the rest. I will definitely grab a paint mixer I think that...

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I don't know if this picture is all that good, but the coloring is pretty slight. I must have only caramelized a small amount of the sugar in the syrup should I toss the whole batch or should...

I made sugar syrup for the first time this afternoon. For the first batch I placed 2 pitchers worth of sugar, about ten pounds, into my lobster pot. Then poured two pitchers worth of water on top....