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GENERAL BEEKEEPING - MAIN POSTING FORUM. / Re: What did you do in your Apiary/Bee yard today?

« Last post by Salvo on Today at 06:29:50 pm »

Father Michael, Mr. Yaki

Mea maxima Culpa.

For each of you, your penance; Please say three Our Fathers and three Hail Marys .

Go forth and sin no more. Per omnia secula seculorum.

Salvatore

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GENERAL BEEKEEPING - MAIN POSTING FORUM. / Re: What did you do in your Apiary/Bee yard today?

« Last post by Terri Yaki on Today at 06:27:59 pm »

Me too

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GENERAL BEEKEEPING - MAIN POSTING FORUM. / Re: Permethrin drench for SHB

« Last post by FatherMichael on Today at 06:21:25 pm »

I use nematodes sold specifically for small hive beetle larvae.

I did that with good results - one of the "natural" remedies that worked for me.

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GENERAL BEEKEEPING - MAIN POSTING FORUM. / Re: What did you do in your Apiary/Bee yard today?

« Last post by FatherMichael on Today at 05:55:21 pm »

I just deleted the last couple of posts.  Please keep political talk out of the bee sections.  Feel free to discuss further in the Coffee House.

I apologize.

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GENERAL BEEKEEPING - MAIN POSTING FORUM. / Re: What did you do in your Apiary/Bee yard today?

« Last post by Terri Yaki on Today at 04:57:41 pm »

I added a second jar of syrup and put more holes of a smaller size in the lid and so far, all is working out. I placed some 1/2" slats in there to set the jars on and put the jars off each end of the hole in the inner cover. I can see hordes of bees crawling around through the hole in the inner cover. My hive boxes all have a port on the side that I can take off and look inside and the brood box is not seeing any activity on the outside of the outer frame. I won't go into the hive for another week but is there a time frame when I should expect to see some activity on that outer frame? It was cooler today and the foragers didn't go out until after noon. I'm also seeing a few ants crawling around. Not a lot, just a few, is this a sign of an pending invasion?

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GENERAL BEEKEEPING - MAIN POSTING FORUM. / Re: What did you do in your Apiary/Bee yard today?

« Last post by The15thMember on Today at 02:45:45 pm »

I just deleted the last couple of posts.  Please keep political talk out of the bee sections.  Feel free to discuss further in the Coffee House. 

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GENERAL BEEKEEPING - MAIN POSTING FORUM. / Re: Swarm Trap deadout/abscond

« Last post by Occam on Today at 01:59:34 pm »

Yeah, the moths wouldn't have been the cause of the dead bees. I think the neighbor behind my parents got nervous and used a pesticide or they found a pesticide somewhere. It's nowhere close to the whole swarm that moved in so either some died outside the box, the remaining bees absconded when the wax moths started to multiply and they couldn't keep on top of them anymore, or both. My theory at least

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GENERAL BEEKEEPING - MAIN POSTING FORUM. / Re: What is the value of a colony bees (these) days?

« Last post by Ben Framed on Today at 11:35:37 am »

Thanks everyone for your replies.

Phillip

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GENERAL BEEKEEPING - MAIN POSTING FORUM. / Re: Swarm Trap deadout/abscond

« Last post by Ben Framed on Today at 11:34:13 am »

Occam
Im sorry you lost your hive. Usually wax moth larva are not a problem in my area until the hot Sumner and Fall. Even then with plenty of bees they are not a problem then. (SHB is another issue.)
Even though the picture was not clear there seemed to be a good bit of dead bees in your box. Neither SHB or Wax moth larva should kill the bees.

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GENERAL BEEKEEPING - MAIN POSTING FORUM. / Re: What is the value of a colony bees (these) days?

« Last post by FatherMichael on Today at 10:09:21 am »

This is where I do bee business, The Bee Place at San Antonio.  This is a link to their hive sets with or without bees:

https://www.thebeeplace.com/2024/HiveSets.htm