Recent content by sawdstmakr

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I need to get his book. It sounds like he is onto something. There was even an article in Bee Culture last month. Jim

I agree. The yellow jackets that I see near my hives are the garbage men of the insect world. The bees throw out the occasional larva/brood and the yellow jackets come and pick them up and take them to their dump. Oh and by the way, I did find their dump/nest the hard way. It was in an Ivy patch...

Definitely not the Green Hornet. :)

A bee keeper here in town has most of his hives swarm within 50' of his hives. His hives (70 of them) are in his front and back yard and he says most of them land in one of the low branches in the middle of his 1 acre yard. Jim

The queen may have been week and that is where she landed. Jim

I suspect what you are seeing are scout bees that did not make it back to the hive before dark and stayed out over night. Jim

I'll second that Keith.

I talked to my father in law, who is in Pennsylvania, last night. His neighbor is a nwebee and had a hive swarm. She asked him what to do with a swarm that was at the top of a 50 year Toby tree, 70 foot tall. He said there was nothing they could do. They were keeping an eye on it and the next...

Rink, My first hive retrieval was one in a 30" by 30" brick pillar. My buddy and I built a bee vacuum and suited up. We started before day light but still had a constant flow of bees from the field for the first hour. We started out trying to get as many as we could at the start and then started...

Put it in a pan of water and heat it to 140 degrees. It will turn back to a liquid. Jim

Sounds like a Mud Dobber wasp when they are building a mud nest. They also make the same sound when the young are trying to get out of the sealed nest. Jim

I thought it was going to BEE bad but it was pretty good.

I moved my bees after adding a queen on top of a hive that I thought was queenless only to find out a week later that it was still there. I built a screen seperator to protect the new queen if there was an existing queen. After I did the split I moved both boxes to the left by 6' and 9' and I...

Congratulations on wintering your first hive. I started last winter and lost 1 of the 2 I had this spring with a good maple flow on. Put the nuc box in the same place as where you are going to place the new hive. Have they drawn out and filled the 5 foundations yet? You didn't say when you hived...