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It does appear that OA has been approved for use in Bee Hives. http://www.beesource.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=16556&d=1426094292 CATCH THE BUZZ Oxalic Acid registered as a varroa mite control Over 250 letters were received by EPA when we asked for beekeeper input. The response was o...

Can’t argue with anything Rob said, but I might do things a bit different. 4 frames of honey and pollen would be the same but I might put 3 frames of drawn comb and a frame of foundation or maybe just a starter strip. I like seeing comb being drawn. I would also feed and when they back fill 2 frames...

Similar situation here, the bees have been cleaning out the bucket of brewers yeast mixture but today they took maybe half.

I added a box over the shim and mountain camp sugar, took the 2 supers of stores from the dead out and spread the frames out over a few other hives that were not light but lighter then the others. I scored the capped honey so maybe they will empty the frames.

L&H I investigated the one hive that I have lost so far and it appears that it was a small cluster maybe about the size of a softball on a small patch of brood. They starved near the patch of brood. There were 2 supers of stores above them, frames of stores beside them and some below them. They ...

All my DVR recorded was the Ford airplane crash. Did a search and did not see it on the schedule.

Thanks for the heads up, I have it set to record on my DVR.

You are more then welcome to cut and paste for the other forums.

Anyone can submit a comment on getting OA approved for use in bee hives. I, and I am sure others have received this E-mail from Bee Culture that makes it pretty simple to send in a comment. I have sent mine in. Ski CATCH THE BUZZ Comment NOW on Registering Oxalic Acid for Varroa Control. This inform...

Bird feeders may help, plastic owls may also deter birds. Harbor Freight sells plastic owls for $15.

I did not pull frames or boxes on any hives. I went by activity at the entrance a knock on the side with an ear against the hive listening for a BUZZZZZ and a quick look under the telescoping cover to check on the mountain camp sugar. A lot of cold nights ahead so not in a hurry to tear the hive apa...

I have never had a problem with the 8 hives in my back yard while mowing right up to the bottom board. On the other hand there are many times that they have let me know that they do not like the weed eater, sometimes they attack my hands and sometimes just the spark plug wire on the weed eater. When...

9 out of 10 are doing well so far.
One of what I thought was a stronger hive is gone.

Have been watching 4 maples in the neighborhood one was in bloom today. The other 3 are budding.

I also have not wrapped any hives in my 8 years of beekeeping. There was an experiment someone documented in the Beesource forum that compared unwrapped to wrapped hives. If I remember correctly they did not have bees just hives with temp probes. Again, if I remember correctly they found that wrappi...

We did a group picture one year. Maybe we can do something like that on Friday and or Saturday.

Mike,
That's an interesting thought. But I would have expected to hear about fighting or dead bees if it was robbing. But looking inside to make sure there is a cluster sure makes sense.

JP,
What did you decide to do?

What kind of pictures are you looking for to go in the scrapbook? GCBA folks, speakers?

I would check to see if there is a queen in that group. If no queen I would dump them back into the hive you think they may have come from.
If you find a queen I would have done the same thing you did by putting them in a nuc and maybe adding some house bees from another hive with a frame of honey.