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I have heard some red maple is now blooming. Matt in Charlotte posted a video of bees loaded with pollen.

They may store it as sugar water and then it drys. That would explain the shapes.

Looks like sugar to me.

I put the frozen frames in black plastic trash bags and tape all cracks. The honey stays good and no moths or beetles have ever gotten in. Just be sure they have been frozen for 4 days or more just before putting in bags.

Saturday, December 21, is winter solstice for us, but it is the first day of spring for the bees. As the days get longer, the queen will ramp up egg laying to get ready for the flowers. Your hive population will double to triple before the first flower blooms, so the food will go much faster. The co...

I think the only way to improve on that would be to move them to Florida until April.

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Advice from An Old Farmer Your fences need to be horse-high, pig-tight and bull-strong. Keep skunks and bankers at a distance. Life is simpler when you plow around the stump. A bumble bee is considerably faster than a John Deere tractor. Words that soak into your ears are whispered… not yelled. Mean...

I'm going to be the spoil sport. There's an old saying..... "Take your losses in the fall and split in the spring." It means combine the weak ones, IE: nucs, and combine them back in the spring. If you are losing the strong ones over winter and have to buy more in the spring, you surly can't over wi...

""" Open, drawn comb gives them additional space-""" But only if it is in or adjacent to the brood nest. The queen will not travel outside her contiguous brood nest to use empty space. She will swarm first. If you are going in to the hive, do it today, not this weekend. Look for queen cells. Otherwi...

Cook them down and mix half plum juice and half apple juice. Make jelly.

Plumapple jelly is plum good.

They are likely fanning to dry the nectar into honey that they are curing in the wild comb in the spacer. You should take some pics when that spacer is packed with wild comb honey.

Two of the best, Rob Jacobs and Mark Case, will be at the Beez Needz field day tomorrow. If you want to do cutouts and removals, I would suggest going there and talking to them. It is not a one liner question. It needs time to be answered sufficiently.

Dozens of beehives were attacked and set on fire in Texas over the weekend in an act “beyond comprehension” that killed an estimated half a million bees, officials said.

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Add another deep and checkerboard. Although, it may be too late. Once they make up their mind, they usually swarm, whether you remove the queen cells or not.Removing the Q-cells is a great way to make a hive queenless and watch it die.

Looking for eggs is "mostly" for the beek, not the bees. You can look if you want, but should have large larva or capped brood within 14 days of install. It won't hurt to wait until then, will be easier to see than eggs, and you can get out quicker.

Use wax. Once the plastic is drawn out, the bees mdon't know the difference.