Guilfordbeekeepers.org

The new site is up and running thanks to Wally's hard work. I especially like the easy access to the pink pages and the national forum boards.

Happy bee new year 2009! I tagged this to Wally's post from last year as a reminder to everyone that there is a lot of good information on our board if you will go back and review the posts.

It will be even better with more questions/discussions from area beekeepers.

I guess it is a matter of philosophy and time. How many are willing to take 90-100 percent losses if treatments that are qualified as organic are somewhat effective and available? No one is looking at mite elimination and perhaps resistance will develop over time. Sort of the same reason I take my b...

I don't know if Wally has any, you may want to check with him. If not, check with Brushy Mountain and see if they have it. You may want to see if it qualifies for free shipping. The code you need for that may be on this site somewhere or on one of the other national boards under" Brushy Mountai...

I saw another theory awhile back on another forum that also made sense. The beekeeper posted his idea that the small late season swarms could be from those dual queen hives that tolerated the old queen during the flow and warm weather, but became more crowded or confined as the hive put up stores fo...

I think they will fly around in the next day or two and find their way home or take up with other hives if you have more around. At least I think that is what Wally says. If you are moving short distances and are really concerned about most of the bees finding that specific hive, then I think you ne...

Thanks for the heads up! You may want to strike fast. I have 3 HT's near me. One (Guilford College) already had a "limit 2" sign up. The other 2 HT's did not (yet).

I've seen a few in the general area where a friend has hives, but I have never seen one at/in a hive. The ones I see are always the wingless ones and are lone walkers. Unless they have some major behavior problem that I've never heard of, I wouldn't think they would be much of a threat--probably les...

If it looks like a very large yellow jacket, is probably a European hornet. They will grab live honeybees or sometimes scavange in front of the hive. They feed insects to their brood. I am seeing fewer of them than I did a couple of weeks ago. In small numbers, they probably don't cause any real har...

Kurt,

I'm planning to go to Brushy this coming Thursday morning to get a few things before the sale ends. If you still haven't gotten your stuff, let me know and I will be happy to pick it up. If I have some idea of what you want I will know whether to take my car or my truck.

That makes sense. I have seen a couple of them in August at my location and another location. I have never been able to see the activity at the opening of a hive that clearly was swarming activity. The confusing factor yesterday was that when I went into the house for a few minutes, my bees were sta...

Does anyone have any knowledge of small swarms this time of year. I went into the house at the wrong time this afternoon and missed the source of a baseball sized swarm. It may have originated from one of my hives or come from the outside. It is settled on a tomato plant in my garden and has been th...

Check with Wally. He has had it in the past.

I've begun my Fall treatments. My bees are still gulping sugar water, so they are getting Fumagilin-B for nosema prevention. I understand that a study earlier this season in the western part of the State showed high levels of nosema spores in bees that were not showing symptoms we associate with the...

Thanks for the reminder. I've signed up. One less pile of publications to keep up with and its something I can save on my hard drive and read at my leisure.

It looks like the combination was a disaster. Apparently the hive bees made it through the slits of the newspaper quickly and found the nuc bees to be unwelcome and dispatched them. I don't know if the results would have been different if I had put a feeder in above the nuc. Probably the hive would ...

This morning I put an end to an almost noble experiment. Kurt was right and I was never able to stop the robbing. For the last week or so I would close up the entrance at night and put the sugar water feeder in the empty deep above the medium frames and gave the bees a small amount of pollen patty. ...

I don't think it would hurt to put another super on. If they have largely filled the lower supers that they have built out and if you continue to feed they may draw out some more comb. I will be looking at my hives from nucs in the near future to see how much capped sugar water honey they have and m...

I was afraid of that. I don't have a place to move them and the reason I was making the nuc was to try and get a daughter queen from the bee tree hive Wally gave me. I may try and keep it going long enough to add it to other frames and make a split from the original hive this weekend. Does anyone ha...

The Good Morning Show on Channel 2 just ran a live story from the tree removal site and is going to have more in the 7:00 o'clock segment. Sounds like John is going to have a good crowd when he goes up on the lift and saves the bees.