Search results for query: *

Just got caught up, I wasn't getting notifications. Sorry for all of the reactions on your older posts though. :)

I've used Apiguard.

@WallyG74 I found a picture of the updates. https://www.backyardchickens.com/posts/25641162/

I don't know about arthritis, but I have chronic neck pain. I got stung by a honeybee from a hot hive while I was working outside 50 yards from it, right on the back of my neck. It swelled up and hurt at first, but then I didn't have any neck pain for 3 weeks! Pretty crazy, I know but maybe it...

Post in thread 'Who Keeps Bees and Poultry?' https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/who-keeps-bees-and-poultry.1346104/post-24370910 My husband changed the top cover boards to be screened. I should get a picture some time. I can open up the hive lid and just see how they're doing now.

I guess you could try. They pretty much go where they want to. Each spring they are in our grain buckets, even when I put pollen patties on.

Checked my hives and 2 of the 3 were dead outs. The long hive overwintered again fine. One of the hives was out in the open in my orchard without a windbreak. I did cover my hives with the flannel cover thing but a week of -43'F windchill was just too much for them. The were sitting on their...

What kind of wood is it? Pine molds. It's fine if you don't want to paint, you'll just have to replace them more often.

Since 2014 I've been trying to tell people I see black honeybees at our farm. No one believes me. I finally got proof today. They are just a tiny bit smaller than my Italian but have the same body shape. They were on the Basil I let flower. What I could find when I looked, was that these bees...

Magic. It works now. :bun

Me neither. I tried to make an account and never got any confirmation email so I gave up.

Where are you located? Have you taken a beekeeping class?

@Apis mellifera

Does anyone have a honey grader? I'm trying to decide if it's worth 50 bucks just to satisfy my curiosity, lol. I just harvested some of the lightest honey I've ever had, and it's very very floral tasting. My honey is normally a dark amber color but this is my honey today. (Just bottled it, is...

Thanks for that. :) I'll start looking then.

No, we didn't see any the day we did inspections. We didn't go through every frame, we just looked for eggs and capped brood and added more room.

Little buttheads. :mad: I have added space in their hives and they still swarm! :he One of them was low enough to shake in a box, I don't know if they'll stay or not. 😒

My homemade (wax) moth traps. You need an empty gallon milk jug, a bungee cord to hang it, filled with 1/2 cup sugar, 1 whole banana peal, 1 cup of apple cider vinegar, water. I cut out a large hole out of the side. I make 3 of these each year and put them on the fence near the hives.

Have you had Russians before? I can't remember.

Here's what's in my "Bee box" cheap Walmart tackle box. Yellow hive tools are mine they fit in my hands better, the red one is my husband's.