[rainesridgefarm]

The best thing you can do is give them a queen and put on a comb honey super. They will start to draw out the super and move honey up out of the brood nest for the queen to lay. They always want honey above the brood nest so they will move it and make a nice super or 2 of comb honey.

 

[Jim Fischer]

Funny, Ospreys have not been known to be problems
for beehives.

As far was what to do about the damage, I agree
with Raines... get a queen. You may choose
to ignore this if you have enough hives nearby
to insure a good mating of a homebrew queen.

 

[BedWetter]

What did you do to be able to place your hives on a military instalation?

 

[ZEEBEE]

Bedweetter,

I just asked the natural resource/wildlife manager at the base. He was overjoyed to have hives on the base. He took out some maps and showed me some good out of the way spots.
As long as its not for a business, its ok.

 

[BedWetter]

Great. I will give it a try