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Have a swarm that was sprayed before it moved into my trap. You couldn't tell there was a problem when you saw them going into the trap. The morning of day 3 they were moved into a hive. There has been major bee loss. The loss is not much as of yesterday. At least some of the bees...

I've heard of places foolishly banning entire breeds of dogs, like pitbulls. Likely, the same people that don't know much about pitbulls or dogs for that matter. I see a parallel between pitbulls and scutellata. People (like Reed Booth) even go as far as promoting a sensational name like...

I have 2 hives (each with 2 deeps and a honey super). Honey supers were added 6 weeks ago. One hive's h.s has 4 worked frames of the 10. The other hive (I checked it yest., Monday) has totally zero worked in the h.s. All deeps seem worked well (pollen/honey, as far as I can tell) , but today I...

Thanks for the feedback. I have good tech skills doing cutouts. First attempt to move a swarm. Approximately 20,000 bees with queen in a Bradford pear. Temps in the upper 50s but they had been on the branch two days. I climbed a ladder, used a very wide mouth bucket and bumped the swarm. Drove...

Back at the beginning of October I conducted a full inventory of my one (top bar) hive and everything looked to be ok. There were lots of bees covering nearly all of the combs, open and capped brood and plenty of stores. Just prior to hurricane sandy, I went out to put some extra weight on the...

This last weekend I had a swarm land in my yard. I'll include a photo. They seemed healthy and what I thought was large group. I am a total novice and quickly made some phone calls and decided to attempt to keep these bees instead of exterminate them. With the help of a couple of beekeepers...