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I thought folks might be interested in a trap out I am doing. The bees are in the cavity and maybe the floor of a farmhouse and they need to go as the have stung two people already. I have offered to trap them out rather than kill the bees I don't expect to get the queen but will bleed the...

I put a tub of last years honey in my tank to jar up today and although it was nice and clear with nothing on the top when I opened the bucket after warming two hours later it was fermenting like mad in the stainless steel jarring tub. Never had this before I can only guess there was some...

I have a colony on a farm well away from anyone that are the bees from hell. As soon as you crack the crown board they are on you trying to sting you any way they can and they will follow you for miles waiting for there chance. So since the spring, I have just stuck another super on every time I...

I need to move 10 large hives double broods and a super or two of nectar to some better forage. I usually strip them down to double brood and move them in the early morning when they are mostly in the boxes. To save time could I move them in the day by just taking them a box at a time and...

I have nearly a bucket of honey and wax along with a few dead bees that I have taken from my sieve on extraction. How is the best way to give it back to the bees???

I have some hives that have not done well this year. They went through the winter very strong and in the spring were still filling double brood boxes. Late spring I visited the hives and found 1000's of dead and dying bees and at first thought they had been sprayed with something. I called out...

Hi is it too late for me to breed some new queens and get them mated please. Thanks Jeff

When honey that you have had for a while either in a bucket or a jar granulates in the bottom and leaves some liquid on the top is it ruined? or if warmed and stirred will it be OK?

Checked some of my hives yesterday and one has recently had the entrance opened somewhat. So what do we think could be cause the problem?????

Checking my bees today i found about three really black bees in with the rest.

I collected a swarm about 10 days ago. Having just about all my gear in use and no foundation to speak of I thought I would go foundationless and included a plastic frame with a bit of empty comb that had been cut off the bottom of a frame along with a broken frame of honey that the wax moths...

Do we get wasp drones I am catching a number of double size wasps in my "High Efficiency wasp traps set down wind""" Do you get queens flying around this time of year or could they be wasp drones????

I left a few bes in a box with a little capped foundation when I moved a colony to a new site. The box was just to pick up stragglers. Found a couple with varroa on.

I spotted a newly hatched queen today first opening up the end of a queen cell then stinging the newly emerging queen inside.

Having seen many posts on calibration of refractometers and what to use to check it is set correctly (also going through the process myself) How about this for a KISS method..... Why not test against capped off honey that should be around 16/18% and set refractometer against this. Then check...

I have just extracted some late season honey from a couple of my colonies. It is really red and tastes very citrus, Orange, nearly like a boiled sweet type flavour. Wax is really orange too. Any ideas what they have been collecting???

Someone asked how you can tell if your bees are on OSR. This one was.....

I am going to move a couple of hives to some field of Lucerne (Alfalfa) as I am hoping that the bees may get some forage of this. Also plenty of bramble ect around. Anybody had buckets full off a lucerne field its quite unusual around these here parts. Jeff

I was taking off my OSR a couple of weeks ago and took a couple of brood frames out with a good bit of OSR in them. I shook all the bees off the frames and stacked them up in my barn. Later I decapped the honey on the frames with a heat gun and decapping tool. Then span both sides out in my...