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No bees yet today but it’s cloudy and It’s supposed to rain all day. So I doubt I’ll see any. I’ve had bees at my swarm trap for about month and a half but I’ve had a sugar water feeder on the trap, but still no swarms, just robbers. Is it bad to have a feeder on the swarm traps?

Thanks, I just put out my swarm trap on Friday

It’s nice to meet you too

Thank you. No, I like Kansas 😊

I don’t know about wild swarms but there should be some neighboring colonies in swarms season

Yes, I did also have the varroa mites( I forgot about them they were a big part of it). In the fall of 2022 I tried an Oxalic acid 12v vaporizer with wood beach but I could never get it to vaporize. Right before I lost the hive in August I found a recipe that I’m going to try this year. It has...

Hi, I’m a newish bee keeper here. I’ve done bee keeping for 2 summers and 1 winter and helped my brother with the hive for a few years before that, unfortunately I lost my hive this last Aug from wax moths, ants, small hive beetles and the heat of Aug and varroa mites, but I did learn a lot and...