You have to remember the purpose behind the swarming instinct with bees. This is the way for bees to generate new colonies to assure the survival of the bee...
... Hi William Yup, this happens regularly. I've had two swarms from my own hives move into bait nucs at my apiaries this year (I started the year with 18...
Our first package bees were installed Thursday afternoon, the queen cage was empty at the 24 hr check, but there is no sign of her. The workers are building...
I looked at the hive about an hour ago and they were swarming all over the front. I uploaded a picture. I went to get a box and some pheromone to try to catch...
I don't think that 24hrs is enough time to detmine that the queen is dead or has left. The bees need time to build comb and they have to feed her to get her to...
If it was a swarm, they will have left swarm cells that should be ready to hatch very soon if not already. I would just check for activity to see if you still...
A few minutes ago (a couple of hours after the picture) the hive is active with bees returning with pollen and lots of bees going in and out. The hive looks...
All birds and mammals can be infected with a form of influenza virus, of which there are three types (A, B and C) and Humans can be infected by forms of all...
Answer to #1: You don't. Pinch the queen (euphemysm for 'kill her') about 24 hours before introducing the new queen. You'll get better acceptance of the new...
... 2. Determine the # hives the package of medicine was intended to treat, either by reading the package or accompanying literature. Measure the product...
Good luck! For the first time (this is only my second year of beekeeping) I'm letting the bees try their hand at making a queen. Three weeks ago I made a...
Watched the girls going in and out of the hive today and noticed that one hive was bringing in tons of pollen but the other hive wasn't bringing nearly quite...
my favorite subject, poison ivy. my theory is that it grows from a massive tuber that underlies most of the world. there are varieties of roundup that will...
I use the Roundup concentrate full strength (or 50/50) when I really need to nuke something. Note that it is the sap of poison ivy plants which causes the...
...i assume that pi grows around beehives because pi is an antidote for beestings (or vice versa) :) seriously though, i've read about a high strength vinegar...
Thing is herbicides will kill the jewel weed which grows near poison ivy and poison oak. In early spring, I set to work. I rake the last of the leaves and...
my one, and only hive, varies in the pollen brought in. some days the pollen baskets are plumb full. others, nada. methinks that the different hives have...
I'd only be concerned if there was no pollen being brought into a hive this time of year. It *may* depend upon the amount of brood and the stages of the brood...
... we have found that if we wash with real homemade soap, preferably lavender, after we come in it prevents the rash,and if we do get a rash, washing with the...
I went for years - just scraping and dripping the honey out of the combs- I finally bought a 2 frame extractor from Dadant - Think of this, With a 2 frame -...
OK, I've been putting this off for weeks -- busy with gardening planting and the like. But -- I've got to get back into that hive and check things out -- check...
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