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I have three packages I installed on a mix of drawn comb and honey stores(some capped , some 50% capped).From what I can tell they aren’t doing much with the stores, but they are bringing in nectar. However, the queens have pretty much laid eggs in most of the drawn comb and are running out of...

Dear Bee Keeps I started a new colony this spring of natural small cell package bees. They as many first year bees are doing well. I started the colony on small cell plastic frames, 10 Frame medium Langstroth. Once they were strong I placed a medium on top and moved two frames up. hey had...

I'm a newbee and started 2 hives this year from 2 five-framed nucs. One of the hives grew very fast and then decided to swarm. I captured the swarm and put it in a nuc with some foundationless frames with starter strips. Unfortunately the queen did not stick around. The hive that she left...

I'm a newbee and started 2 hives this year from 2 five-framed nucs. One of the hives grew very fast and then decided to swarm. I captured the swarm and put it in a nuc with some foundationless frames with starter strips. Unfortunately the queen did not stick around. The hive that she left...

I have several questions as I enter my first spring with full hives. I had 2 hives going into the winter and I fed them pretty continuously 2:1 to prevent starvation since it was their first winter and I didn't want to have a deadout from starvation. Hive #1 : 2 deeps and a medium had tons of...

I have a hive (2 deeps , one med super) that swarmed a week or so ago because it was honey bound. I opened it up yesterday and found some honey in the super, the whole of the upper deep full of nectar and honey, some small space for a queen to lay in lower deep plus lots of pollen and some...