Sorry for your losses , my luck hasn't been great either. Put that super in the freezer till spring , safest place I know. Marlene NH ... From: bslack007...
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bslack007
Feb 26, 2013 10:38 am
Great, Thanks!...
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Mike S
mws1112004
Feb 26, 2013 1:25 pm
... okay for me to store this super in a bag with the moth crystals and then add it to the fresh bee package ... Since it's stored this long without protection...
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Tim Arheit
tdarheit
Feb 26, 2013 1:56 pm
Not necessarily. The moth crystals I've seen contain only paradichlorobenzene and is exactly the same as Paramoth sold for this purpose. Moth balls on the...
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Charles Walter
habutti
Feb 26, 2013 7:24 pm
Al Strom has been thinking about establishing honeybees in the garden he shares with a neighbor, but he was in for a mild surprise Saturday: To be successful,...
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mdudley
Feb 26, 2013 8:30 pm
... If you have had them all winter and no moths have shown up, then you are likely safe if you do nothing more than put them in a plastic garbage bag and seal...
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mdudley
Feb 27, 2013 5:35 pm
The Feb issue of American Bee Journal has an interesting article on page 273 titled "Replace those contaminated combs". The article describes an apiary where...
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Charles Walter
habutti
Mar 1, 2013 8:01 am
Hunter said recent research indicates honey bees tend to become more effective pollinators when teamed with highly efficient mason bees and other non-managed...
16944
Charles Walter
habutti
Mar 4, 2013 4:36 pm
A new long-term study of honey bee health has found that a little-understood disease study authors are calling “idiopathic brood disease syndrome” (IBDS),...
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Charles Walter
habutti
Mar 6, 2013 7:37 am
When people call in sick, co-workers might try to pick up the slack. Almond growers hope the same is true for the worker bees in their orchards. Read more at:...
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Charles Walter
habutti
Mar 8, 2013 2:02 am
Bob Danka, a research entomologist with the Honey Bee Breeding, Genetics and Physiology Laboratory in Baton Rouge, said Louisiana has not experienced CCD, but...
16947
Charles Walter
habutti
Mar 10, 2013 12:12 am
It’s March. Beekeepers are inspecting their queen/brood status and marking any weak colony for re-queening. They are ordering queens and packages of bees....
16948
Ernst Julio Edgardo
apiman1180
Mar 11, 2013 1:34 am
Video: Proceso de inseminación de abejas reina - Insemination process for queen bees. ...
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mdudley
Mar 12, 2013 2:34 pm
Bees could hold the key to preventing HIV transmission. Researchers have discovered that bee venom kills the virus while leaving body cells unharmed, which...
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mdudley
Mar 12, 2013 2:55 pm
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23255-plants-lace-their-nectar-with-drugs-to-make-bees-return.html Plants lace their nectar with drugs to make bees...
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Charles Walter
habutti
Mar 12, 2013 9:41 pm
In addition to tracheal and varroa mites, nosema, ccd, etc, etc., beekeepers also have to deal with this nonsense. Read more at: http://bit.ly/14SrNlq Charles...
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Jorg Kewisch
kewisch...
Mar 12, 2013 10:10 pm
How does that guy come up with $2000 per hive? I count $300 for the hive, $200 for the bees, $300 for 100 pounds of honey. Must be $1200 for the emotional...
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Tim Arheit
tdarheit
Mar 12, 2013 10:58 pm
Without more details I'm inclined to think it was just a winter dieout. Spraying a cluster with pesticide this time of year would be difficult. I also need...
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James
jaimesbeam
Mar 13, 2013 11:44 pm
I watched a bunch of videos by "The Fat BeeKeeper/Guy" on YouTube. He was talking about how easy it was to split hives. He says you don't need to find the...
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James
jaimesbeam
Mar 13, 2013 11:48 pm
Obviously these people don't live in Maine. The rain has washed away most of the snow, but we could easily get a bunch more snow... Jim...
16956
glass71909
Mar 14, 2013 4:26 am
I'm so excited! Next week, an experienced bee keeper is bringing out bees. He also removes africanized bees, so has lost some of his hives, which he thinks...
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Kewisch, Jorg
kewisch...
Mar 14, 2013 4:54 am
Jim, the best time to split a hive is in May or June (the time when bees swarm). Splitting too early is bad. The bees need eggs or young larva to make a new...
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Kewisch, Jorg
kewisch...
Mar 14, 2013 5:05 am
Ann, The bees fly up to two miles away from the hive and visit 2 million flowers for 1 pound of honey. So it will not make a big difference what you plant...
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Mike S
mws1112004
Mar 14, 2013 12:41 pm
... Normally speaking, you won't be able to plant enough flowers to really help feed the bees. If you had a couple of acres of say, Dutch clover, crimson...
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mdudley
Mar 14, 2013 3:05 pm
Why cannot one simply make sure both boxes have either eggs or less than 3 day old larvae? That seems a lot simpler. If both boxes have eggs/young larvae, it...
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Charles Walter
habutti
Mar 14, 2013 5:21 pm
I stopped by Costco last night and they had a pound of sugar for $0.39 when you buy the 50 pound bag and $0.40 when you purchase the 25 pound bag. Charles...
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habutti
Mar 15, 2013 12:23 am
I'm not sure how he arrive to those values, but he sure got the media and police attention. I guess now he can justify the purchase of more packages to start...
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karon
karonadams
Mar 16, 2013 3:36 pm
I don't know if he could make that stick in court as a legit number. but, TBH, it would make me mad just thinking of the hours spent caring for the bees to...
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Tim Arheit
tdarheit
Mar 16, 2013 4:19 pm
The article doesn't make it clear how he knows it was pesticide rather than winter kill. Or why he thinks the equipment can't be used again (many pesticides...
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karon
karonadams
Mar 16, 2013 7:10 pm
If he wants to kill the Africanized without chemicals, tell him to try just soapy water. I have used it for years with bees hanging around the location of a...
