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How much does everyone know about antibiotic resistant bacteria and how they become resistant to antibiotics over time? The same thing likely happens when treating mites. It is microevolution. In...

I have 4 outyards in addition to my home yard. I keep anywhere from 3 to 6 hives at these locations (according to the landowners wishes). When I harvest, I bring the landowners about a gallon each...

I have read that they can travel up to 6 miles from the hive. However, I bet that the actual distance in practice is under 3 miles - and that would probably be in an extremely low quality...

Picture 4 at the top - is that wax moth webbing? If so, I would scrape it out and freeze the frame before I put it in a hive.

Second this - I actually have a hive that has a Michael Palmer queen in it that is marked BLUE. That is one good queen. I don't even care if the hive makes honey anymore - I just want it to throw...

If you have them in your area: Aldi .38/lb

Do have a junk box - nothing in there fit, almost got one to, but it popped of. I actually emailed Dadant and they got back to me:

"#6-32 thread, but are unique in that the lockwasher is attached...

Does anyone happen to know the size of the nut required for the bellows posts on a Dadant 4x10 smoker? Somewhere, one of mine came off and I would like to get it fixed before I start losing the...

Phoebee,

you win

Actually, that is exactly what it is. They detect the sugar content of the liquid in question - if the content in high enough, it triggers a foraging response, if not, no response. It is all 'on'...

Bees do not have compassion. In fact, they don't even have brains (which would be the center and origins of such emotions) and they don't produce the hormones and chemicals (again, produced by a...

$400 and you are doing it yourself

http://www.honeystickmachine.com/

I started beekeeping in North Dakota........really no choice but to insulate. I tried a few strategies and settled on the bee cozies. They worked well, got some hives through winters when the temps...

Northern Hemisphere (so orienting south is the same as orienting north in the southern hemisphere) - My hives point south or southeast and are in full sun. Don't know if you have hive beetles down...

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I sell 12oz Bears for $5 all day long. Pints are $10 and Quarts are $18. This give me 10% or better profit on the honey/bottles/etc. I think that your market depends entirely on your...

Solid honey and/or pollen. The spring nectar flow here can be very strong. Where I am, it is mostly trees - but the bees have no trouble filling an upper deep.

By mid-summer though, they are...

I am in Stilwell. Moved here three years ago - but before that, I was keeping bees in North Dakota. I generally have not seen an early swarm season in my area, but I do get a fair number of...

Same here - it is hard to beat the free shipping. Kelley and Brushy Mtn. ship free over $150, so if it is a big order, I shop around. The only thing I really don't purchase from Mann Lake are...

When I used to keep bees in ND - I had a raccoon push over a hive (landowner saw it), it hit the hive next to it and they were both toppled over. It wasn't able to tear anything apart though. When I...

In the poultry industry, chickens are crammed (sometimes 3 at a time) into tiny cages for the sole purpose of maximizing their egg production for harvest. Their environment is wire floors and metal...

I use Helmsman. Americasbeekeeper is correct though - not too thick. I put 3 coats on - each after the previous is fully dry. I have had some of my boxes 8 years or more now - they have needed one...

For consideration:

https://www.milkwood.net/2015/02/26/going-flow-flow-hive-actually-good-idea/

http://www.honeycolony.com/article/3-reasons-to-go-against-the-flow-hive/

My favorite pull...

Shake it out and start over.

You will invest far more energy and resources into it than it is worth, and you probably won't even be successful at turning it.

My bees are all over the Bradford pears.

My own mutts..........BUT, when I need a queen quickly or need extras to make nucs - I supplement my yard's genetics with Carniolans or Russians. I try to keep those lines in the drone gene pool.