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Thank you, I have also repinted and cleaned with bleach all the other wooden ware I have. One more question? Is it better to put the plastic frames into the bottom super or it does not matter?

I lost my bees last summer and did not store my hives well. I put them into a plastic container, closed the lid and left them on my deck. I was hoping to use the forgotten hive for a new package I plan to purchase. This week I noticed bees going in and out of the container (Lid was not as tight as I...

I have two new hives started from packages this spring. Both are 8 frame med. boxes. During past three weeks one hive has become much stronger and is doing great, full of bees and honey and good laying pattern. The other one doesn't have nearly as many bees and when inspecting today there are only t...

My new hive (started in 3/14) is in trouble, it was doing great until I went on vacation in August. Upon return there were some hive beatels and mites. got rid of hive beatles, treated for mites and now upon checking it looks like there is no queen, no capped brood and very little honey. Is there a ...

hello everyone, I put in a new bee package this spring, they have had a good summer and now have 3 med. 8 frame boxes I did not use a queen extruder, was this a mnistake. lots of bees not much honey, I will be feeding 2:1 ration from now on. Do I need to reduce the hive to only two boxes or do I lea...

Thank you, I think I have been robbed, there is not a trace of honey left. Also some signs of moth webbing. I will take put the frames in the freezer today and call you tonight. Thanks for being a helper.

I am in trouble, my bees have left, I had a small hive beetle problem where when I tried to use the escape board and there was slime in one of the supers. I took it off, cleaned let it, aired out but did not put in any traps. Needless to say this was all wrong. i now have an empty hive with some dra...

The queen must be in there, I have loads of bees. I was late removing my top feeder and the bees build very nice and straight comb. It is full of honey, I removed it today, put on another super of 8 med. and a queen excluder. I am hoping for more honey. When I looked at the frames there were some ex...

Last Sunday I was reversing my brood boxes and dropped one of the boxes. It broke and I had to put the frames into a new box. I put the hive back together again. It now has two brood chambers (Med. 8 frame), feeder and the inner and top cover. There were a lot of bees on the ground so I walked away ...

I revisited the hive yesterday and saw some capped brood and a some larva still did not see the queen.

My bees swarmed three weeks ago. I checked the hive after the swarm and it looked like there were some new queen cells, so I closed it and observed. Yesterday I revisited and it looks like there is no queen, not much brood activity and a few small hive beatles. What should I do, I am a new beekeeper...