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by 8jevans
Sat May 14, 2011 7:01 pm
Forum: Beekeeping 101
Topic: Queen missing in action during honey flow?
Replies: 5
Views: 6835

Re: Queen missing in action during honey flow?

I've got the list of approved sources of packages and queens, any suggestions for a source of a queen within reasonable driving distance of Greensboro? I may take another look in the hive tomorrow just see if I did see some eggs a couple of days ago. TW.
by 8jevans
Sat May 14, 2011 6:40 pm
Forum: Beekeeping 101
Topic: Queen missing in action during honey flow?
Replies: 5
Views: 6835

Re: Queen missing in action during honey flow?

Got it. We should have started using this site sooner, or called someone, or tried harder to make one of the monthly meetings! Thanks, Wally. We ordered a queen from Busy Bee in Chapel Hill last year to re-queen one of our two hives in about August, something we were told would help us go into winte...
by 8jevans
Sat May 14, 2011 5:39 pm
Forum: Beekeeping 101
Topic: When to extract?
Replies: 6
Views: 7958

When to extract?

When does the honey flow in the Triad typically end? When the tulip poplar stop blooming? that would be pretty soon, I presume. How long after the honey flow do most folks extract? If its a gradual decline in honey flow I presume there would be no hurry. We have a nearly full deep super (I guessing ...
by 8jevans
Sat May 14, 2011 5:32 pm
Forum: Beekeeping 101
Topic: Queen missing in action during honey flow?
Replies: 5
Views: 6835

Queen missing in action during honey flow?

We had a great queen through the early part of the season, lots of brood production from about Feb. to late April. We started seeing queen cells in about late March, I presumed because we had not noticed how crowded our 2 deep supers of brood were becoming. We had 5 frames of brood in each deep supe...