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Battery, inverter, charger all in one unit, and bonus, it's got big fat leads with clamps so you can use it to...

I use the lawn tractor battery, but, it's even easier if you just leave it in the lawn tractor. Drive the tractor up to the row of hives, vaporize as many as the cable will reach, then start the...

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feral

1) existing in a natural state, as animals or plants; not domesticated or cultivated; wild.
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Look into what the folks in northern Saskatchewan are doing to winter bees. Fairbanks may be a bit colder, but, probably not a heck of a lot. A beehive wont notice the difference between -40 and...

Wishful thinking. If the above statement was true we would have been overrun with bee colonies decades ago. Reality tells us that a healthy population throws a swarm every year, and a stable...

once upon a time, 10 years ago, I was a first year beekeeper. I listed to everything folks told us, and dilligently put the sticky boards in to check if our colonies had mites. There were two...

I would disagree with the need to separate nurse bees from foragers. In a real swarm you get bees of all ages. This makes sense, when the swarm heads out they will need wax makers to start a new...

If you dont have the queen, then it's a lost cause and not worth any effort to try and save them. If you do have the queen, then a quart of bees can survive, we winter colonies of that size as a...

I tend to agree with this. Over the years we've started packages in the spring beside wintered colonies a few times. In our part of the world, spring brood starts in earnest around Feb 15, and the...

The abdomen is not what stops a queen from getting thru an excuder, it's the thorax.

Besides, a laying worker colony wont have just one worker laying eggs, there will be a bunch of them.

Seen it a few times myself Frank. After they realize a honey crop is not an easy route to some quick money, typically the tune changes to 'I will sell nucs instead of making honey'.

At Apimondia one of the posters during one of the poster sessions addressed this. Very well detailed, and it showed the math error in Lee Dusby's work where she determined that 4.9 was a 'correct'...

I would move them when it's convenient for me, not worry about when it's convenient for the bees. If moving 25 feet in the same yard, and there are no other hives around, the bees will find their...

Have to agree with Juhani. The colonies I saw in those videos had no where near enough bees to form a proper winter cluster in a box that size.

I see you got the link fixed, removed this one.

https://www.beesource.com/forums/showthread.php?347723-Anatomy-of-a-mite-crash

I was at one of the talks Apimodia by a fella doing genetic analysis of the difference between one of the so called 'wild varroa tolerant' populations, and comparing it to a managed population. They...

If you cherry pick your sources and ignore those that dont fit your views, it's very easy to develop a set of data points that do fit your views.

Bring in empty mating nucs. I've been to a number of 'queen rearing' sessions over the years, they all seem to be 'cell raising' sessions, and add 'transfer to mating nuc' as an afterthought.
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I always tell folks, in the spring starting with a full size colony puts you much farther ahead than starting with a package or nuc. OTOH, in the fall, what you are buying is winter risk, and it...

That's an urban legend that has developed a life of it's own. In reality, that's not how it worked, and NASA spent $0.00 developing the ball point pen which was what they used for early space...

We had our killing frost on Oct 8, that's two weeks earlier than last year and the year before.

Not really. When we bought our extractor, it was the Mann Lake 9/18. After exchange and shippiing cost us just under $1800 cdn. That's about 200lb of honey. Putting drawn supers onto 20 colonies...

That is my experience as well. Keep empty drawn brood comb ahead of the queen so she can lay, and they stay put. But once backfill starts, the swarm has become inevitable. We have a strong flow...

Get asked this all the time by new beekeepers in the second year as swarm season ramps up, usually after they have had one or more swarms.

My answer is always the same. Without a decent inventory...