Here's a link to some photos of a feral honey bee colony in an old, abandoned swarm trap. http://picasaweb.google.com/KE4ROP/FeralBees I've placed a new swarm...
Hi All, My name is Elliott Fauré and I live just outside of Frankfurt area in Germany. I am just beginning bee keeping and have joined this group to learn...
I harvested a large swarm two weeks ago, and did so very gently. Shook the mass into a bucket, dumped it into an empty hive, and within an hour all the bees...
Hello Jeff, A prime swarm should have a queen laying as soon as some cells are built, or at least around 3 days or so. But after swarms with virgin queen might...
Just after Easter, we experienced a "freeze" in Southeast Missouri. This is not a frost, but a freeze. We lost all our peaches, pecans, lots of apples,...
In a message dated 5/9/2007 7:55:19 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, gfcg7312003@... writes: I'll keep you posted as I'm sure this is not the final design ...
Hello Mike, Nice pics! I would cut comb and tie into frames. But you may want to try placing a hive body with a frame or two of young brood, less bottom board...
Great pictures. I have this same problem on one or two of my swarm traps every year. for some reason, they smell the lure but won't go inside the swarm trap...
Follow this link for pictures of my bee vac. I posted some pictures on a web page of mine. http://www.25hives.homestead.beevac.html If it doesn't work, give...
Really cool looking, Grant. Do you hold it by the handle on the car vac? Is it unwieldy? Tom ************************************** See what's free at...
The water jug vacuum needs support so I usually hold the water jug underneath with my left arm and the on/off switch on the handle with my right hand. The...
I have at last baited a Feral Swarm of honeybees. I put out an old drawer, drilled a 1 inch hole in the front and fitted internally 2 sloping sides to mimic a...
I'd done one way funnel approach a few times. . .it works well, but you'll only get older gatherer bees. . .the queen and the nurse bees will never leave the...
Norman, thank you for nice repersented images.I suggest you to let the bee colony keep alone. It is Nature capital for your bee colonies and the other too.I...
Here we go.......bees and ferrel bees at that in the news!!! Three-thousand bees force evacuation of fundraiser POSTED: 2:17 p.m. EDT, May 21, 2007 Story...
Thank you guys for your comments and suggestions. Unfortunately the tree is near the neighbors house and he wants the bees gone! By my calculations, if they...
Jeff & others When I do a trap out I give the nuc a frame of brood with eggs and let the raise a queen because I am to cheap to buy a queen Ed [Non-text...
I just want to brag on my wife. A number of years ago she saw my bees as competition to my time at home, time with the family, interruption of dinner from...
Hello Grant! Nice story! Beekeeping is so much more fun when you have someone to enjoy it with. Better get her a bee suit! :) Best Wishes, Joe ... Joe Waggle...
I do the same ED, I will also do a quick search in my other colonies for queen cells I can place in the trap also. Joe ... Joe Waggle ~ Derry, PA ‘Bees Gone...
My bee collecting (cutouts/whatever) always go better when the wife is around. gfcg7312003 <gfcg7312003@...> wrote: Well my wife kept talking and taking...
My wife said she did not want to have anything to do with bees. She has come around. The last swarm we caught was at the town cemetery. She fielded the...
All, I'm a relatively new beekeeper, but I'm already starting to notice some trends. . .for starters, my hives don't seem to be doing so well with queen ...
Jeff, I usually will take some uncapped honey from another hive and put it up above the excluder. The bees like to finish what they start! To bait the bees, I...
Everybody is different so take my advice with a grain of salt. I don't worry about the queen going up into the honey supers. I practice the ideal of giving...
Great info from both Grant and Kathy. THANKS!! I'm going to try the "baiting" technique first, that sounds really slick, then drilling a hole in a super or...
Hello Jeff, Some great tips from Kathy and Grant! If I may also add,,, A colony of bees naturally wants to maintain a honey cap directly above the broodnest....
