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Thank you all, I will feed them 1:1 and place jars on the top bars in an empty hive body. Thanks again Rob

Will they come above the inner cover to get to it? It will probably remain cold here for quite some time yet.

I checked my hives today as it was 55 out. They looked great, lots of bees flying around, and when I looked inside, lots of bees in a cluster. When I lifted slightly on the hive body they did not...

I use hemp.....make them reeeeeeal calm! Just kidding I use chips of wood lit with a torch then fill the smoker with pine needles ( I like the smell).

Jim says-"The moral here is to harvest early, and harvest often, so the
honey can be sold, and the bees can be built up for fall and
overwintered on nice, clean ash-free syrup."
This is the second...

BRAVO!! Very well said and I agree.

" I know Jesus and I've talked to God and I remember this from when I was young. Faith, hope and love are three good things He gave us and the greatest is love." Alan Jackson. I don't think I...

As a buyer, I love using Paypal. On Ebay I don't bid on anything if they don't accept it. I don't know how it works out for the sellers however, and that is probably what you want to know. Rob

While a good number of you are clearly not stupid, I cannot make that claim about myself as I have just read all three pages of this thread!

I would guess that 2/1 sugar water wont freeze. You could mix some up and put it in your frrezer overnight. I do know that maple syrup dosent freeze at freezer temps though the maple syrup may have...

By the way, this is most certainly not an "ordinary" queen. Its an ITALIAN queen!! I put that in for my wifes benefit(she's Italian):)

Thank you all, overnight it will be. Rob

I have a new queen to put in a hive, I removed the old queen after an exhausting search. How long do I have to wait to put the new queen into the hive(in her cage w/o attendants). Thank you kindly...

One of your most valuble assets is the comb. By extracting rather than crushing or making cut comb, you can reuse it over and over. The bees then dont have to waste energy drawing comb again.

Wow, it looks like a lunar module from the apollo days.

Or perhaps you are suffering from hearing loss. I thought ants had gone extinct until I went to the eye doctor and found out that I needed glasses!:rolleyes:

I tried using hemp, made the bees real mellow, but then they went and ate all the honey they had stored so now I just use bark and pine needles.:rolleyes:

Well, some quick math. A package of bees for 62.00 minus a queen lets say 18.00, leaves you with 44.00 for the workers. If you get 12000 bees in a package that works out to 4 cents a bee and that...

As I have stated before I have two hives started this spring. One of the hives has superceeded their queen and at the moment has two queens, one in the upper hive body and one in the lower. My...

No, I believe rubbing alcohol is isopropyl alcohol ( excuse the spelling) denatured alcohol is available in hardware stores with solvents and paint thinners and the like. Rob

Chef, I believe entomologists use denatured alcohol in their bug killing jars. It kills insects very fast. Perhaps if you put a rag soaked in alcohol in the bag before you put in the hornets, then...

Well Riverrat that is the downside to life here, its a little slow. When I was a kid, before the advent of pagers and the like, they would blow the siren on the townhall to call out the fire dept. In...

Thanks Chef, While I can bake, that does not make me a baker. Remember Baker was a Vermonter ( actually probably a nutmeg state transplant)who used to hang around taverns with his buds Ethan, Ira,...

Yuck! Spiders give me the creeps. Thanks for the nightmares! Ill have to add that to my list of good reasons to stay in Vermont-no hurricanes, no tornados, no forest fires, no earthquakes, no...

I put half of a clothespin under the top cover to raise it up a bit a few weeks ago. Perhaps I need something larger. How big a space are you trying to create?