Hello, I'm new here and wanted to introduce myself. My name is Matthew and I live in southern New Mexico. I play in the Society for Creative Anachronism and am...
... Although you don't have to start with 1000 beehives, you really can't just start keeping bees "part-way" you either have bees or you don't, and if you ...
Hello Matthew, welcome. You might want to consider a top-bar hive, since you're already disposed to build your own hive, and a top-bar hive is probably closer ...
Hello, I have 5 large crape myrtles in my yard. The honeybees are all over them. I cant seem to find anything in my beekeeping books about these trees. Are...
... I agree wholey, and not sure why I didn't mention it myself being an advocate of top bar hives. Just was short on time for a response I guess. ... Same...
Truly my Lord, a man who rattles his helm with rattan under a broiling summer sun is well prepared to battle bees in a beesuit!! Be it known that the...
... Agreed. I am currently in the research and hive-building phase. I have the space and the time to do this the right way; I want to make sure I do. Neighbors...
What sort of hive -- top-bar or Langstroth -- would you say is easier for a beginning beekeeper to manage? I know that the TBHs are smaller and more easily...
Actually, there's some evidence that top-bar hives were used in Greece going back even to ancient times. Certainly they've been used in Greece traditionally,...
... TBHs aren't necessarily smaller. Mine are about the same volume as 3 deep boxes. I would go for the tbh, especially since I am advocating their use...
Hi, Matthew! You might be interested in a series of articles that appeared in American Bee Journal: Castle Beekeeping, Gene Kritsky, ABJ Volume 143, No. 1,...
I just finished extracting my first crop from my two-year-old hives. I pulled 13.5 gallons from four hives. Plus I had a full frame of honey and comb in...
An a way down South in Dixie this is about as good as it gets. Everybody I've talked to's having a good year. 13.5 divided by 4 is 3.375 gallons per hive. My...
Hi! I had the most unpleasant experience in five years of beekeeping last weekend. I was checking my two hives (one Carniolan, one Italian) at a friend's...
... Sure, firstly a package of bees aren't going to be very aggressive. They can be, but never as much as a fully established colony of bees. They don't have ...
Subject: [beekeeping] Very aggressive bees ... Carniolan, one Italian) at a friend's farm, and the bees attacked me like I've never experienced before. ... Not...
I have been babying a package hive I started this spring. When I went out today the bees were gone. The hive has now been taken over by hive beetles and wax...
Put the frames in a plastic bag and freeze them for 24 hours. Then you can put them on another hive. No sign of foulbrood though, is there? Just freeze the...
... I had a similar experience with one of my dad's hives about a months ago, middle-late May. In our case it was an established hive several years old. We had...
My (1st) bees seem to be doing well--greatly increasing numbers (mostly workers, not so many drones), busy building comb, capped brood cells present and ...
I haven't had those experiences but I have heard that bees often react aggressively because they might be under stress from a number of things: predators such...
We have had the odd aggressive hive but we kill the queen or the colony. Since we have been raising true Buckfast from Europe they bees have become extremely...
Hi there! I'm a new beekeeper - we established two hives from nucs in May. I'm pretty sure that one of our hives has chalkbrood. I've been told to move out...
One method that you could apply: Place a box of similar size on top of the present brood box and without excluder, so that all the colony members can move up...
To any and all who may have been offended by my signature lines my apologies. I do not post often to this board and I forgot to change the signature. It is not...
Hi I am new here. I do not have any bees right now but am interested in it and hope to have a hive or two in the future. Right now I am thinking of starting a...
Joni <fanaticfarmwife@...> wrote:Hi I am new here. I do not have any bees right now but am interested in it and hope to have a hive or two in the future....
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