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New Post | jonathan Today 02:11 AM |  How long before they produce another queen and laying again?If queenless, they will start to make emergency queen cells almost immediately from suitable aged larvae. The first queen is likely to emerge in about 12 days. The earliest she is likely to mate is... (50 views, 2 replies) | |
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New Post | Motj3 Today 01:20 AM |  Angry girlsI have a hot hive but very productive. Obviously a different strain than my others as the queen is very dark. I am going to leave a dirty, sweaty T-shirt on the hive. Hopefully they will get over... (224 views, 9 replies) | |
New Post | Oldtimer Today 01:19 AM | Roundup Won't hurt your bees. I use roundup to kill weeds that grow around the hives, I'm a bit quick & rough with it so often get it all over the hive landing boards and whatever bees are there get... (439 views, 22 replies) | |
New Post | johnhi30 Today 01:14 AM | Hello from Thailand Hi Elle, we were in Chiang Mai late last year, very nice part of the world and would love to get back there again, we were amazed at the huge numbers of very small bees on all the flower bushes. Not... (150 views, 8 replies) | |
New Thread | all4honey Today 12:45 AM | Hello from Cabot Arkansas Hello, I am not a beekeeper yet, my husband and I have talked about it a time or two over the years but never pursued it. About two weeks ago while working out in the yard I heard a strange... (25 views, 0 replies) | |
New Post | AkDan Today 12:27 AM | first peek Thanks Rob! I did make partial frames with guides. I don't have enough hands to straighten this out. I hope I can straighten out the next two boxes. Finally getting nice up here. They're... (142 views, 4 replies) | |
New Post | thenance007 Today 12:26 AM | rethinking bee nutrition Wow, I'm amazed at the pH of the clear liquid--did you taste it? Was there any sweetness left or did the fermentation use up all the sugar? If it used up all the sugar, I doubt it would appeal to... (6,831 views, 248 replies) | |
New Post | JRG13 Today 12:05 AM | Hungry hatchling Color isn't surprising looking at her offspring but I bet they're good queens either way. (250 views, 6 replies) | |
New Post | JRG13 Today 12:03 AM | Anybody ever... nope, I give them a few frames of drawn comb, they can also draw comb pretty fast so I don't see the point. (100 views, 2 replies) | |
New Post | JRG13 Yesterday 11:43 PM | Up to 12 million Bees Found Dead in Florida It's called the other side of the fence BigDawg. Let me ask you, are you up to date on your vaccinations though? (658 views, 47 replies) | |
New Post | Oldtimer Yesterday 11:23 PM | Multiple eggs in cell I don't think it's common to them, or even if it is a carniolan thing at all. Just, I never noticed it till after carniolans came here. But could be something else entirely, who knows. (269 views, 12 replies) | |
New Post | BeeRescue Yesterday 11:19 PM | Africanized Bees, Gamma Rays, Sinkholes... Oh my! I've heard about this. The do-gooders think they are making the right move, but killing off a potential bee workforce is silly (IMHO). And apparently even those that remove bees alive in Florida... (78 views, 3 replies) | |
New Post | JRG13 Yesterday 11:05 PM | Lost about 4/5 of 5 Frame NUC due to overheating - Now hive beetles you had larvae and eggs since it was a nuc they could raise emergency queens off of. (66 views, 1 replies) | |
New Post | JRG13 Yesterday 11:03 PM | Need some guidance on Carniolan Bees Get them in a bigger box and don't leave empty space. They will have comb started already and you would be surprised how much comb they can build off the top cover in a night. (269 views, 10 replies) | |
New Post | lovellkim Yesterday 10:57 PM | smoke I have never used grass clippings before but will never do it again. I am going to go out and get a bucket of pine needles thanks. (79 views, 2 replies) | |
New Post | bevy's honeybees Yesterday 10:52 PM | Swarm returned to hive, what to do next? Weird, I had the same thing happen on Thursday, one of my backyard hives. I just happen to be out by the hives when I saw the air fill with bees swirling around. I knew this might be coming-last... (143 views, 4 replies) | |
New Post | melliferal Yesterday 10:34 PM | HITS method of mite control Indeed, very little is really "natural" about honey bees by now. We will never know how or under what circumstance the first human first got a taste of honey; but it was perhaps the most momentous... (4,289 views, 220 replies) | |
New Post | kilocharlie Yesterday 10:29 PM | Carniolan/Italian Hyrbid Help Cataleptic - In your future re-queening efforts, at least in the area of mated queens, you might want to look into the Laidlaw queen introduction cage. See Contemporary Queen Rearing by Harry Hyde... (749 views, 20 replies) | |
New Post | kilocharlie Yesterday 10:08 PM | Introducing Virgin Queens Beecurious - Do you recall the source of the study you summarized? I'd like to read that one. (426 views, 18 replies) |
