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The only time I ever had trouble with wax-moths was the year (back when I was using Lang hives ...) that I "helpfully" tried to give the bees "lots of room" and then "lots of sugar" so that they...

Disposable plastic gloves that come twenty to a box are a wonderful thing for handling sticky-stuff of any sort. Pop a rubber-band on if you're worried about getting bees in your bonnet.

Buy new ones.

Whereas when combs have been visited by moths, I make candles from them, or toss them into the next convenient bonfire. I don't particularly feel the need to preserve them; I'd rather they and the...

I personally always wear a veil and gloves, even if otherwise I'm wearing shorts and a T-shirt, because there are two places that I do not wish to be stung: my head, and my hands.

I know that...

We ordinarily do not use smoke ... a spray-bottle of water with peppermint oil is ordinarily just fine ... but ... to attempt to work with stinging insects without proper protection for one's hands...

Bees will commonly "body-slam" you, especially in the general direction of your face, because thisis a very effective defensive move that does not require them to actually sting you therefore die. I...

Check carefully at one end of the hive or the other. In one of our hives the hive started building on one end, and AFAIK the brood nest is still there. Sometimes it migrates to the center. You...

Chicken waterers with round river-stones (used for landscaping) in the trough for the bees to sit on. Very popular.

Always make it easy for your bees to get plain water.

Of course, this also means that they are observing you ... :applause:

:pinch: yuck... the very thought of that... :pk:

We use linseed oil in certain historical restorations, and indeed it isn't really suited for outdoor use. Modern formulations do include a lot of chemicals in an attempt to stabilize the mixture. I...

The brood area of a hive is a three-dimensional area that tends to be in the center of the hive space. It can also be anchored at one end. In any case, when the hive is storing-away bars of "pure...

Look ... these are stinging insects by nature. You can't change that.

Take your bee brush and, smoothly and gently but pointedly, sweep them off the surface that you need to clean. Obviously,...

Shrug...

Thompson's Water Seal. Applied only to the outside. (Although I'm beginning to wonder if it might not be an all-right idea to apply it to the bars of my hTBH, since the bars obviously...

Umm, I hate to be the bearer of obvious bad-news but...

When you (surely...) noticed that the bees were "taking up" all that sugar water that you have so generously been feeding them,...

I've always had hives in some kind of shade, with good results. Right now we have all hTBH's and they are sitting under a grove of hardwood trees in the middle of a pasture. They have very easy...

Like every other forum on the Internet, simply try to make your questions and comments count. That is to say, "understandable, and answerable." We're all here to help each other in the common...

The last time I had a hive which did that, I made a bonfire. I took it well away from the bee yard and burned everything. Yeah, it had been pricey equipment. But I never wanted to see it again or...

The brood area is three dimensional and tends to be in the center of the colony. Pure-honey stores are found near the edge, when the hive has accumulated enough honey to put them out there. Honey...

It is, indeed, a cautionary tale. I think that we humans, with the very best of intentions, conceive of what we think that "the ideal hive state" ought to be, and we intervene mightily to try to put...

In a natural situation, the brood area and in fact the entire hive is a three-dimensional structure with the brood in the middle. Separating the two halves with a blank space is probably not a good...

Indeed, many a beekeeper who followed "advice" without first checking the status of his own hives has wounded up the season gathering "honey" that tasted rather suspiciously like . . .

They loaded-up on honey and split the coop. The remaining hive will recover. I seriously doubt that they were subsequently robbed-out since an active although much-reduced hive remains intact. ...

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