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- Sun Mar 28, 2010 6:52 am
- Forum: Beekeeping 101
- Topic: Rewaxing plastic foundation
- Replies: 1
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How badly silked and tunneled up is it? If most of the comb is still o.k. you may want to use it in a strong hive and let the bees clean it up and keep using the comb. If you cannot save the comb I don't think you need to get to spotless plastic, but I would want to get to where the outline of the c...
- Thu Mar 25, 2010 2:35 pm
- Forum: Beekeeping 101
- Topic: Drones
- Replies: 6
- Views: 9134
- Wed Mar 24, 2010 4:02 pm
- Forum: Beekeeping 101
- Topic: Mite counts
- Replies: 57
- Views: 75699
- Fri Mar 19, 2010 3:47 pm
- Forum: News & information
- Topic: Queen Rearing Workshop Deadline Approaching
- Replies: 4
- Views: 7488
- Fri Mar 19, 2010 4:34 am
- Forum: Just Stuff
- Topic: Queen is Dead
- Replies: 18
- Views: 20679
Wally, your math is better than mine if the flow is not delayed by the cooler weather. If it is delayed by a few weeks the math gets trickier. I am somewhat anxious to complete the treatment of this hive since they are removing a few developing workers and drones with deformed wings. I may just wait...
- Thu Mar 18, 2010 7:58 pm
- Forum: Just Stuff
- Topic: Queen is Dead
- Replies: 18
- Views: 20679
I would love to have queens from the strongest (bee tree) hive. When I put the formic acid pad on the problem hive there were eggs and larvae. It never got hot enough to fume to the point where the bees came out of the hive (like they did last Spring). I'm wondering if the acid has killed the eggs o...
- Thu Mar 18, 2010 6:57 pm
- Forum: Just Stuff
- Topic: Queen is Dead
- Replies: 18
- Views: 20679
- Thu Mar 18, 2010 6:11 pm
- Forum: Just Stuff
- Topic: Queen is Dead
- Replies: 18
- Views: 20679
I'm going to be calling Brushy Monday about the package pickup scheduled for March 27th. If they are delivering on that date or with a one week delay maybe they can add a queen to the order even though they are sold out of packages. If not, add brood/eggs to keep them from going laying worker until ...
- Thu Mar 18, 2010 4:06 pm
- Forum: Just Stuff
- Topic: Queen is Dead
- Replies: 18
- Views: 20679
Queen is Dead
I came home this afternoon to find a clump of bees surrounding something on the ground in front of my second strongest hive. I moved them away to find a nice fat dead queen with what appeared to be a damaged wing. I had been in my strongest hive yesterday and added a super of empty brood comb to giv...
- Sat Mar 13, 2010 12:44 pm
- Forum: Beekeeping 101
- Topic: Mite counts
- Replies: 57
- Views: 75699
An unhappy update. I can move hive #7 from questionable to doomed. I just went through the hive and the bees are occupying part of 1 frame in the first medium. There is a queen. There are larvae. There are multiple eggs in the bottom center of many of the cells. Somehow I just don't think this is a ...
- Fri Mar 12, 2010 9:41 pm
- Forum: Beekeeping 101
- Topic: Mite counts
- Replies: 57
- Views: 75699
All are Italians/Italian mutts except for the unknown origin of the strongest hive (Wally's bee tree bees--hive #4). That hive is building faster and earlier than the others. I have screened bottom boards in all of them. The bottoms were open (no plastic sheet in) all winter and I had small sticks u...
- Fri Mar 12, 2010 5:38 pm
- Forum: Beekeeping 101
- Topic: Mite counts
- Replies: 57
- Views: 75699
Hive.....8/1/09.......Treatment.......11/6/09.......3/7/10..........Status ...........Mite Count........................Mite Count....Mite Count 1..........61.............Apilife Var........63..............5..................Hopeful 2..........18.............none..............149..............4........
- Wed Mar 10, 2010 12:04 pm
- Forum: Beekeeping 101
- Topic: Mentors for new beekeepers
- Replies: 28
- Views: 41746
- Wed Mar 10, 2010 5:31 am
- Forum: Beekeeping 101
- Topic: Honey Supers
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4032
I'm not at that point yet. The long cold winter has set my bees back and slowed what I can do. I just did a mite count and have a formic acid pad on one hive. I still need to do a nosema treatment for all of my hives. After that, I can think about honey supers. For me, my best guess is that it is go...
- Tue Mar 09, 2010 11:17 am
- Forum: Wanted/For Sale
- Topic: Free Package Bees?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5739
The e mail went out February 24th. Please pm me with your e mail address. If we had it wrong we can correct it. Only 1 came back undeliverable and that was because of a spam blocker. The e mail stated that we would have drawings for 2 packages of Italian bees, that this was open to 1st time students...
- Fri Mar 05, 2010 8:15 am
- Forum: Wanted/For Sale
- Topic: Beekeeping supplies on Craigslist.
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5133
- Thu Mar 04, 2010 8:18 am
- Forum: Beekeeping 101
- Topic: Mite counts
- Replies: 57
- Views: 75699
- Wed Mar 03, 2010 7:22 am
- Forum: Beekeeping 101
- Topic: Mite counts
- Replies: 57
- Views: 75699
- Fri Feb 26, 2010 4:45 pm
- Forum: Beekeeping 101
- Topic: Big Local Nectar Flows
- Replies: 6
- Views: 8328
In this area I think your biggest, best and most reliable source of nectar is the tulip poplar and you probably want to gauge your activities to that. Other plants may produce some nectar and do better some years than they do other years. I want my treatments done early enough to catch the poplar fl...
- Fri Feb 26, 2010 7:03 am
- Forum: Beekeeping 101
- Topic: Big Local Nectar Flows
- Replies: 6
- Views: 8328
There is a wealth of information to be mined from this board. Timing varies with weather conditions, but for examples, stay in this Beekeeping 101 category and go down to Poplar Bloom on page 2 2008 Honey Flow on page 3 Tulip Poplar Flow on page 4 I am sure there are other entries but these are some...