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Nature Coast, thanks for that briefing. That was illuminating. For two reasons, both because I learned a few things - and because I appreciate now how different each state's requirements are.
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I always prepare them to move during the day, but actually move them at night so that I get ALL the bees. By moving them during the day you will lose the foragers that were out of the hive at the...

They don't accept a queen well. The africans seem to know the European queen is not their own and they kill her. I have devloped some tricks and techniques, but mostly I have determined they are...

I miss those days. Swarm traps and catching swarms was fun.

State inspector told me last year that 94% of the ones they catch are africanized now. They swarms are gentle, but once they become...

As a new beekeeper I am sure you will be itching to inspect that hive fairly often.

Generally our job as beekeepers is to give the bees what they need. Not more, not less - as exactly as we can...

OK, that makes sense why in my trapouts this year I caught the queen. I had put brood in the Nuc so they'd have something to make their own queen from - assuming the trap would not catch the queen....

Moon,

I don't have Kim Flottom's Book and I'm curious what is says. I was thinking about doing something similar to get the last dregs of honey out of the cappings.

No water in my plan though....

I am in the process of doing this too. I also just placed a medium on top of the hive and once I saw the queen laying up in the new medium, then I swapped the boxes and put the deep on top with a...

No, don't move them while it is cold enough for them to cluster. If you jar the hive and break the cluster they may get too cold to regroup.

Best to close them up the night before and move them...

Yes I think you could spray the bees directly, though I've never used it that way. I take dead outs and extracted combs and clean them up and prep them for reuse.

I then spray all combs with the...

Ted, It's a shame that you've had to resort to burning it. Did you look into irradiation? Maybe you don't have a facility near you, but they have shown that irradiation works on the CCD boxes.

I...

Why would you want to go to the trouble of using screen anyway. Sundance's Bt spray works perfectly to protect brood comb from wax moth damage. Simple, cheap and easy to apply.

I use it all the...

Use Sundance's Bt Aizawai powder for wax moth control. It works great.

I love my bees and never advocate killing them if it can be prevented..... That being said - as soon as you start talking about things like cranes and professional help and the liability of that...

I went to Kelley's website and looked at it. Yes, please explain how it works. Someone wrote a negative review on the Kelley website because they could not understand how it works, so maybe you...

Sometimes they prefer a 10 frame deep, sometimes a Nuc. Put out both if you have them. I agree with odfrank. Make sure the box is light tight with only one small opening. Higher up is better - 10...

I respectfully disagree with dr.buzz. I have found for new beekeepers side by side splits are trickier because many bees go home to the old hive.

If you are going to do a side by side split...

Sounds to me like they are not even in there. You saw a few bees here and there. Maybe they are just investigating all of the strong odors coming out of that vent and the hive is actually 2 blocks...

I built a bee vac and have had good luck with it. The mortality rate is very low. Usually less than 50 bees dead from vacuuming a whole hive. That is less than you lose in a varroa test, so I feel...

There are a number of different ways to do a split like this, but one thing that I have found is that same yard splits are more tricky than if you move them. I do the split and load it on the truck...

They will probably stay now that you have cooled it off and given them some sugar water.

However, There is no guarantee until they have brood rearing going on. If no drawn comb or brood is...

I agree, go ahead and set the traps. I have had very good luck putting out traps. Like 70% of the time when I put out a trap I will catch a swarm in it within a month or so.

I do use drawn comb...

Your inclination is correct.

Extract them and let the bees clean up the stickys. Then store the dry combs.

I also now use some Bt Aizaway spray on the combs before putting in storage. It...

I have done about a dozen trap out jobs in my 7 years of beekeeping. I have never gotten the queen until recently.

Usually the population in the wall just dwindles away and the population in the...

It's worth whatever you can get for it.

Here in FL the main flow is over, so they'd have to be fed to make it through the dearth of summer, so they are not worth very much down here right now.
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