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Greetings,
I wanted to let any commercial beeks know I have 6 acres in North East Florida (Bradford Co.) with 4 of that being a garden 90% of the year available to host your hives for the winter...

Greetings to all, I was curious if anyone is looking to winter their bees in Florida this year? I missed out on the chance to host about 200 hives last year, a commercial Beekeeper was looking for...

Thanks to everyone, I will check out alcohol roll mite count. Also I had already been thinking of getting the inspection boards to go under my bottom screen. I'll look into apivar too. Thanks again.

No, not trying to be treatment free, just unsure of what to treat for and what to use.

Thanks for the reply, I'm in between Jacksonville and Gainesville, winters arn't to bad here sometimes in the low 20's high teens. As far as deformed wings, I checked the others well and didn't see...

I'm a new beek and have only one hive since April, i have small hive nettles and would like to know the best solution to getting rid of them? In stead of one deep for a brood, I went with two mediums...

And thank you Tenbears for the info as well.
Mike

Thank you for all the info, I will certainly try this.
Mike

I'm a month into my first hive, I'm using two 10 frame 6 5/8 mediums for my set up, the lower box is getting pretty full with brood and some honey. There is 2 or 3 frames they could still work on to...

I've started my hive with 2 med 6 5/8 boxes on a family members recommendation with the intent of splitting next year, my question is: should I continue with med boxes on the hive or go ahead and...

Greetings everyone, I'm Mike and am a 1st year beekeeper. I've had my hive/bees since April 30th, so far all is well. Haven't seen my queen since I placed her in the hive, but there is more than...