A nice spray of Honey Bee Healthy mixed 4 teaspoons to one quart of 1:1 syrup will take care of any odor difference. It is said a queen or hive combine can be...
Thanks very much Jim, that is good advice! I will be getting two queens tonight from my bee club president. I will install the queens tomorrow, spray the...
If you are not going to combine the hives, I recommend you leave the queen in her box and place it in the hive for three days before you release her. If it...
If you feel the current workers are too old once your queens start producing, you may request a couple frames of capped brood from your mentor too. Trade him...
... combines, etc. Best regards, Beth in CT Well, lol, I am too stupid to know any better. I can see it isn't quite the same. But so what... You take a spare...
I am a new keeper with a top bar hive, and have had bees for the last 2 months. It has really warmed up here in the NW, and the activity of the bees has been...
If the clothes are wet, I'd say they are sucking them dry! :<) Also, lots of bees pouring out of the hive is normal on a hot day if your hive is not properly...
Wet clothes evaporiting would bee cooler too Jim P ... From: "Jennifer Andersen" <cattledogdreams@...> To: <TopHive@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Wednesday,...
We have a steadily growing group of local TBH beeks and will be getting together at the local Irish pub, Tir Na Nog on Friday, July 11 around 7:00pm. If you're...
Hi there. I have six tbh's now and would like to be able to harvest some propolis from them (I make a few herbal medicines for my family sometimes)... but...
Hi Phil, I hope the bees don't swarm if the box is all full! I have a similar growing season to you, I think- I'm at 8,100 feet in the mountains (Rockies) ......
If anyone needs queens at odd times of year, you can always get them from Hawaii at www.konaqueen.com. I bought two last November when I discovered my hives...
Does anyone have any good close up shots of wax being secreted from a bee's abdomen? I'm pretty sure I'm seeing that in my TBHs, since I have an observation ...
Wow, thanks! You are photographers as well as beekeepers! -- Christy Hemenway GOLD STAR HONEYBEES "It's not about the honey, Honey - it's about the Bees!" ...
... a bee's ... otherwise ... due to ... Here is a picture and also a web site with lots of very good pictures. http://photo.bees.net/gallery/abdomen ...
Very nice! Thank you! -- Christy Hemenway GOLD STAR HONEYBEES "It's not about the honey, Honey - it's about the Bees!" 207-449-1121 www.goldstarhoneybees.com...
Since I got interrupted when I was discussing filters I left something out I realized later. A polarizer filter when combined with a UV filter can do wonders...
... It was great to meet everyone and I am looking forward to our next gathering! Bill noticed, and was very happy, that beekeepers also drink decent beer!...
Hi all, My brother and his partner had a swarm of honeybees move into the side of their old farm house yesterday and are trying to decide whether to have...
Best to get them out of there, I agree. http://adkinsbees.com/photo-gallery/eves-roofs This is a website of bee-removal specialists; the photo galleries speak ...
Holy cow!!! Those are incredible photos. And I'd say that Adkins is one heck of a good company! But when I look at all that made-from-scratch wax - I can't...
our hive split and they took up residence in a hole at the bottom of a pecan tree. hole is maybe the size of a softball. no way to "open" it, except by...
One of a couple of ways comes to mind: 1. My preference --> Leave them in there and let them generate swarms each year that you can hopefully catch with...
Iddee from here is good to talk to about that: http://www.beesource.com/forums/showthread.php?t=218861&highlight=trapout And here's some photos of trap-outs...
this one: http://www.beesource.com/forums/showthread.php?t=218861 <http://www.beesource.com/forums/showthread.php?t=218861> read all the way through, ignore...
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