CCD has nothing to do with starvation of colonies. In other words, if you have a colony of dead bees inside your hive, you haven't experienced CCD. Colony...
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sherill lockwood
sherillynn
Jun 13, 2007 8:05 pm
I actually live in a lake community, lots of gardens and wooded areas. There isn't a lot of livestock around or field crops but there seems to be plenty ...
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huntley_hives
Jun 14, 2007 2:54 am
Me and my wife have started...I'm restarting. My grandfather was a beekeeper and passed away before I was old enough to take over the beesness. So when my wife...
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Lew Best
lewbest2000
Jun 14, 2007 3:12 am
Sounds like you did REAL GOOD!!!!!!!!!! Lew Best near Waco, TX List owner of the following swap lists you might be interested in ...
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sherill lockwood
sherillynn
Jun 14, 2007 3:26 am
what a great story!!!I am sure Grandpa is smiling.......
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Stefani Leto
parkdayknitter
Jun 14, 2007 3:39 am
This is such a nice story. Enjoy. ... Sick sense of humor? Visit Yahoo! TV's Comedy with an Edge to see what's on, when....
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sherillynn
Jun 14, 2007 3:39 am
OK...So yesterday, I'm actually thinking I know what I am doing, hiving my first swarm and all without any incident. Piece of cake, right? Well tonight on my...
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Lew Best
lewbest2000
Jun 14, 2007 4:06 am
From the organicbeekeepers list recommendation I've found it helps to use a queen excluder as a "queen includer" (on the bottom unless you use top entrances)...
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hivehealth
Jun 14, 2007 10:35 am
Honey Used to Treat Wound Infections in German Hospital The Healing Touch of Honey By Kirsten Traynor, Humbolt Scholar, Celle, Germany American Bee Journal,...
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Steve B
greenriverya
Jun 14, 2007 1:33 pm
This year was an active swarm season around here. We have hived 15+ since mid March and I did another one just this week. Probably got calls on that many more...
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Steve B
greenriverya
Jun 14, 2007 1:44 pm
We don't use excluders on hived swarms to keep the queen in. Some do use "includers" on package bees where the queen is sold as mated. We do that also. ...
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J. Charles Cripps
jcharles_cripps
Jun 14, 2007 2:13 pm
Maybe they left because it's an unstable neighborhood. J.Charles ... hadn't ... to ... been ... the...
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Mike McDonald
pyrite90
Jun 14, 2007 3:11 pm
Sherrillynn, Like you, I can be a bit of a worry wort when it comes to something new. But a local beekeeper helped me understand something very important and...
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sherill lockwood
sherillynn
Jun 14, 2007 5:01 pm
You sure picked up fast on the worry wart thing....Plus, I'm a nurse so I like to be in control. Maybe this will teach me to loosen up a bit! Thanks. Sherill...
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sherill lockwood
sherillynn
Jun 14, 2007 5:07 pm
Nice website. That open air swarm is really cool....
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Guro Dennis Servaes
dennisservaes
Jun 14, 2007 5:11 pm
... Sometimes a swarm will leave to join a another swarm 3 or four days after lossing their own queen. Also, ants and other ememies can drive them out. Did...
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Lew Best
lewbest2000
Jun 14, 2007 9:08 pm
I’m curious bout the HSC; haven’t tried it due to cost and the fact that it comes only in deep. I use all mediums; no deeps. From your pix it appears to...
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Steve B
greenriverya
Jun 15, 2007 4:31 am
Hello Lew, We tried 20 frames of HSC this spring and hived two of four packages on straight HSC. The other two we used Mann Lake PF 100 and 4.9 medium wax...
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Lew Best
lewbest2000
Jun 15, 2007 4:42 am
Thanks Steve May look into it next year; just bought 25 pounds of 4.9 wired medium when I went thru Illinois bout a month ago. Still have a bunch of ...
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Steve B
greenriverya
Jun 15, 2007 2:21 pm
Lew asks, <I wonder how it would hold up using a Cowen uncapper?> Steve replies, I would ask HSC folks that question. Lew Best <bee_keeper@...>...
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dstrenio
Jun 15, 2007 10:10 pm
I didn't use a queen excluder, and now I have some brood in my first honey super. The brood is in the lower half of the super, and they are storing nectar and...
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Mike Stoops
mws1112004
Jun 16, 2007 12:09 am
... From: dstrenio <davstrenio@...> Subject: [Beekeeping] brood in honey super I have some brood in my first honey super. Should I let them do what...
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Mike McDonald
pyrite90
Jun 16, 2007 12:57 am
David, Here's what I did: I first removed the first honey super and replaced it with a super with 9 frames of foundation. Then I placed the honey super with ...
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Stefani Leto
parkdayknitter
Jun 16, 2007 3:51 am
I'm sort of annoyed because I just got a swarm call from a location I'd removed a swarm from last year. I've raised my prices partly because of my high-ladder...
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lratcliff@...
sparky2726
Jun 16, 2007 4:34 am
I do both honey bees, and wild animal damage control. I would guess that for every paying job I have, I have 5 people call me wanting me to fix the problem,...
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Stefani Leto
parkdayknitter
Jun 16, 2007 4:45 am
Yeah, after a high-ladder retrieval and then *fallling* off of a ladder at my sister's house, I'm just not willing to drag my rear end out of bed early (I pick...
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dstrenio
Jun 16, 2007 12:03 pm
Mike, Why only 9 frames of foundation? -David ... replaced it ... super with ... bees will ... nectar while ... the ... the cells ... foundation or ... have ...
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Mike McDonald
pyrite90
Jun 16, 2007 1:48 pm
Because my honey supers only hold nine frames. ;-) Mike ... From: beekeeping@yahoogroups.com [mailto:beekeeping@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of dstrenio Sent:...
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Lew Best
lewbest2000
Jun 16, 2007 2:22 pm
I'm not Mike but will throw in my 2 cent's; I've heard that trying to use 9 frames with foundation can cause lotsa bur/bridge comb problems. It's quite common...
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Mike McDonald
pyrite90
Jun 16, 2007 3:13 pm
They do build a little burr comb. But it seems they only do that at the tops of the frames. It's fairly easy to control. I usually scrape away enough to make a...
