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Hello Ron,

Three weeks before the honey supers were at 80%. After I asked the question they had consumed all but 20% so I guess there was not much flow. I started feeding after I saw that.

call me crazy but I don't want to lose any hives by starving them.

Thanks Wally, I hope to get one last run in the next week or so. By the way, the Bee Quick I bought from you a couple of meetings back is much better that Bee Gone.

My wife is not giving me as much grief (relatively speaking of course)

When is the latest anyone extracts honey for the season? I have two honey supers on two hives I figure should be pulled to reduce down to a brood and one full honey super for winter. thanks for the info. What was the consenus on honey for this year?? Last year seemed better for honey production than...

Perfect and thanks Kurt. I will wait a bit yet. I appreciate all the questions and answers from the board.

Is the fall flow over? My bees are still active and I see some wild flowers and such. why? I have two honey supers besides the food stores and I guess should spin these two supers and start to feed. thanks for the answers. This year I did not have much honey int he spring but these two supers are no...

I helped another newbie beekeeper in Charlotte capture a small swarm 60 foot away from his hives. We put the small swarm into a hive. Since the hive is new, he adds sugar water and one of the established hives looks like a super highway to the new hive. They don't fight, just suck down the sugar wat...

This may be the same issue as Ron's scenario. O.K. there was a small swarm I helped with a month ago in Charlotte with another newbie bee keeper. They were on a small crepe myrtle away from the hives. We threw them into a new hive. Here is the weird part. The new hive we started feeding with sugar w...

Thanks Wally.....and your product to run the bees off smells great compared to Bee Go....

At the meeting Kurt and others said it was time to feed your bees.. I have honey supers on several hive at 75% worked and the honey supers are not capped. If I supplement with sugar water, won't that define the honey at not 100% pure. Feed with pollen patties??? recommendations are appreciated on th...

Thanks again for the answer Wally. I think I will always leave the food honey supers alone. It was Apigard and even if it is o.k. I prefer no chances. I guess the experienced beekeeper was correct. If regards to the knife question..I have a cold knife from Brushy mountain. Better to get a hot knife ...

Wally or Kurt do you have any comments? You guys have great knowledge.

I intend on never spinning the medium food store ...FYI.

My in-laws took pictures of ne and send to all the relatives....well so much for being a real bee keeper...

two days for me with a bee sting on the forehead...I looked chinese for two days.

I was checking two of my hives today. One has wax frames, the other hive plastic frames. Boths are swarms I captured. The wax is no problem, they are fine. The plastic has combed and worked out a honey super aboove the brood chamber. Even there is access below in the brood, they have not drawn it ou...

hmmm...o.k. if this is the case so I leave it alone or pull the top and start another hive???

I was hoping to spin with pure honey and no larvae, etc..

recommendations are appreciated.

Kurt, Have you ever had a queen in the brood, the excluder and then a queen above or would the bees attempt this? I caught a swarm, put them in the brood, added an excluder, and one honey super. I briefly opened the honey super and there was larvae in the honey super. I ran out of sunlight so did no...

if it make you feel better that is what two of my hives look like. Boy, if mine looked like Wally's I would be freaking....

wow..o.k. last year I spun in mid June and then in August. This year we were debating whether it was best to keep putting honey supers on and spinning in August. So most people spin more than once or twice during the season? This is pretty exciting to find out. My beeds last year worked out two hone...

I spun in late June last year and again in August as I had enough to harvest and enough store for the winter. Only one hive then, now five hives so do most of you wait till August? Earlier?

I bet everyone has a preference so I am curious.

thanks.

I would like to think this would work and thank you for the suggestion. If I was to do this I have a feeling the jar of honey would be thrown at me.

Checked my hives, there were no swarm cells and there is plenty of room. The busy hive I had split a month before the issue.

Thanks for the tip.