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@@azurebapiaries6730 thank you

You need resources and Nurse bees. You are creating a small nursery that needs no help from the outside world until the nurse bees become foragers and start bringing in nectar and pollen. I check on my split weekly so I do sometimes make them thin on resources but I can also grab them more during an inspection.

Thanks for the info but I'm not a penny pincher. I have over 8 buckets of wax capping's I need to sell. sometime it comes down to tripping over quarters to pick up nickels. My time is valuable. And I know it's a valuable resource, but some things end up in the landfill. Thanks for the post and suggestion. I do save larger quantities just so you know.

Git-r-done. lol

This one didn't. Although tank conditions play a large role in weather the fish is happy and willing to except the surroundings you provide. including tank mates water conditions.

Where in PA. And how would they make you take a few years off? Packages are a waste of money, in my opinion. You only cheat yourself. Buy good local nucs. Mine are so packed out I need to sell nucs to slow them down.

Yes I'm assuming you are referring to the comment I made about the Queen not laying in the bottom. But I think the issue is either she doesn't want to be close to the entrance or the light. They start winter in the bottom and end in the top following the honey. Some I try to rotate if I see that. But the Foragers end up using the bottom as a place to drop their nectar and even pollen. I have a couple slatted racks, just never used them for the purpose of keeping her laying in the bottom. It's also in the 40's overnight here and she like the heat at the top in the spring. Maybe if the bottom box was insulated, they were sitting on the ground or insulated in the bottom and the entrance was smaller and the foragers had an upper entrance. I could keep everyone happy. But at the moment all that ain't in the budget. I'm just trying to keep the wheels on this adventure. lol I downsized from 140 couple to 80 couple and some nucs but after all the swarms I'm putting back in single and nuc boxes they are growing in numbers again.

@@Warren76317 * 140... one small change is expensive when multiple by that #

The vines made it easy.

You are 100% correct. I ended up not filtering it and running it straight in the bucket and filtering it later.

It was at 14% and it was So good.

Bees know which hive is theirs, I feel most drift comes from when you move a hive around or new foragers. As for Diseases, keep them clean and health and there won't be any to share. 2021 - 23 I worked as a commercial beekeeper and they kept their this close. When you have as many bees as I do, you work them the easiest way. There are almost 60 in this yard and after they get inspected I'm moving about 20 - 25 out of here. You can keep the diseases down by keeping the mite count low. My bees were in a national study last year and only got to a 5 after 8.5 months. Not perfect but not bad either. my loses were only 13% this year. It may also teach them to respect their Neighbor being right up against them, they are a community bug.

What honey are you referring too? What I added to the orange hive? if so no they may try but there are enough bees in that hive to run them off.

It's coming up on the starvation time of winter. when bees run out of honey to keep warm. Queens will sometime over do egg laying and they either won't have enough food or they the bees wont leave the brood to eat to stay warm.

Got stung in the hand because i didn't smoke the hive after removing the lid but I don't mind. God bless that girl and may she be a great bee in heaven. 🙂

What? we need to get together and talk. I just treated in November but twice.

There are 3 stages of Queens, Virgin, Mated & Laying. The queens in a 2 frames don't get moved until they are Layers. If I need to add one to a Queenless hive I just add her. if you cage her for more than 6 hours I consider her a Mated queen and she will have to be introduced thru a time release method. But if you get her in a hive under that time she will just keep laying. Bees always accept a laying queen but they aren't laying queens after so many hours. Thanks for the question.

Sometimes but these do good here.

Me too. I'm going to make more box and get into more nucs.

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Sure I did. Nucs

These girls are in an organic alfalfa field the farmer lets go to flower livin large. Not his Property but I just moved a bunch onto his property. Missed a buckwheat crop but they'll be there next year. I don't have enough supers and its hard for me to keep up with over 130 honey hives. Lost so much honey this year. Bee either sitting or flying away, lol

@@Warren76317 bees been working my buckwheat pretty hard past couple days..

160 I'm about to make my over winter splits with all my nucs full and my double screen boards. I'm selling nucs in the spring. Should make another 60 screen boards. That would make 100 split with just them.

I started with double 4's, they are great. I'm doing it the way I do because it's faster and cheaper 2's, 5's and Double Screen divider boards. You're Welcome.

You could be right.

Thank you

I've been trying to get back to what boxes I have for supers for the last 2 months by selling bees. Hoped I'd sell enough to buy New boxes and frames but I fell Waaaay short of my goal. lol I did spend 1,000 dollar towards frames but that was a drop in the bucket. Now I'm trying to decide how to proceed to the fall and get ready for winter with nuc I can sell in the spring of 24. I've totally given up on making honey. I'm just trying to keep them in the box, lol I think I'm going to sell queen from my hives to create a brood break and let them requeen themselves.

@@Warren76317 Two to four the first year and grafting Q's, four to twelve, then twelve to twenty eight. With mentees I'm overseeing 50+, age and health caught up with me now downsizing, was able to drop 10. It's really hard seeing those empty boxes sitting there when I could fill them,,,, Need to drop four more, six hives and eight to ten nucs is what I'm shooting for. I do enjoy the nucs and selling bees! Fun stuff, don't burn out or get injured, happy beekeeping!!!

Got too big too fast and don't have room. I'm selling bees and putting every hive that goes queenless on another bee.

Welcome to Auto Upholstery where they change screws, clips and everything else they can think of in a car every 4 or 5 years. Yea most of you OCD people pass out trying to figure this trade out. Cabinet work is cake.

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Ha haha no it's just a wooded area.

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