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42053 Kevil KY - West of Paducah
Zone 7a/6b
Dandelion, Bradford pear, henbit, red maples

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42053 Kevil, KY - 4/15/2017 Nice large swarm moved into empty dead out.

Welcome, what part of KY are you located? Warm winter has got the girls moving early this year. Good luck with your bees.

Tim

I'm going to wait until next weekend and the temperatures are pretty much above freezing at night. I am an hour or so north of you guys. Of course it will depend on what I see during inspection...

Jcummins - you might try Phelps Farm Store in Paducah, that is where I got my Buckwheat and clover. You also have a Rural King at Marion and Paducah, TSC at Paducah and Ballard Co-op at LaCenter KY,...

Welcome from Western Kentucky. Shaker Village sounds like a great weekend adventure for my family! Good luck with your bees this year, things are about to start getting fun with the weather...

42053
2/21/2016
red maple
purple dead nettle

Record breaking 73 today, conducted a hive inspection on all eleven hives, all beginning to grow. Average two frames with brood sealed and eggs visible. The workers were very busy today bringing in...

Good point, a metal conductor to ground would short it out in short order.

Do you have schematic available somewhere? Would like to build my own, I have bought so many at the local farm outlets that burn out after 6 months or so. Hard to keep the horses and goats in the...

I too have gotten warnings from MS Security Essentials over the past few days.

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Sorry i don't...

Sorry if this is in the wrong forum, it deals with creating queens but also a management technique.

I've been reviewing the two queen systems and comments about the extra work involved in managing...

I have witnessed this technique unintentionally a few years ago in attempting to get some foundation drawn and moving a deep of what I thought was all honey above a medium box of foundation. There...

I have tried 2 frames splits several times and yes it will work. The best time is after temperatures are very warm and chilled brood is not a big issue (I don't even attempt this until late...

42053
2/4/2016
Dandelion
Random blooms due to abnormal warmth

That was my understanding too...

Nice looking bricks, what did you mold them in? I used muffin tins for bricks for my nucs. The little block fits perfectly where the feeder jar normally sets then put a telescopic cover over the...

Wow I'm 300 miles north of you, we got to 65 today, I expect we will be seeing something coming in within the next week. Sure hope our extreme cold is over. Keep us updated, looking so forward to...

It was 65 here today in West KY according to the National Weather Service. Lots of cleansing flights, housekeeping and even a robbing in a dead out.

No pollen coming in yet, looked closely at the...

Yes thanks for the information, sounds like I will have to rethink that idea of the starter strips. I certainly can attest to them building on the roof or top of the box. Hived a swarm a couple...

Steve good luck with the traps. I have caught some swarms over the years using empty nuc boxes with a piece of old brood comb laying on the bottom and lemon grass oil. Once used a copier paper box...

http://www.michiganbees.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Mini-Nucs_20150130.pdf

Nice article

Sounds like a neat idea, wonder if there is someway to build an enclosure for an old cellphone with wifi and put a solar panel on it in the beeyard. Sounds like a fun project to research and build....