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GENERAL BEEKEEPING - MAIN POSTING FORUM. / Re: How are your Bees?
« Last post by Terri Yaki on April 23, 2024, 08:55:49 am »Cao, you obviously have a fairly large operation. Would it be OK if I asked what you do with the honey?
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GENERAL BEEKEEPING - MAIN POSTING FORUM. / Re: Swarm Trap deadout/abscond
« Last post by Ben Framed on April 23, 2024, 08:50:29 am »My first season I lost some emptied honey frames which I was saving after extraction. (and after the bees had cleaned them up ). This was disappointing. I learned with interest that Ian Steppler storeds his in a stationary refrigerated 53 foot trailer, the kind that is used for over the road transportation. He simply puts his empties stack neatly inside. Cranks up the unit and freezes them. These trailers are sealed so no chance for infestation afterward.
For an operation of his size, I don?t know of a better solution to keep this fresh comb safe from the wax moth.
Thanks, Jim and Michael for pointing out the two different type of wax malls and what those differences are.
Phillip
For an operation of his size, I don?t know of a better solution to keep this fresh comb safe from the wax moth.
Thanks, Jim and Michael for pointing out the two different type of wax malls and what those differences are.
Phillip
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GENERAL BEEKEEPING - MAIN POSTING FORUM. / Re: Swarm Trap deadout/abscond
« Last post by Michael Bush on April 23, 2024, 08:03:00 am »The greater wax moths need the cocoons. The lesser wax moths do not.
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GENERAL BEEKEEPING - MAIN POSTING FORUM. / Re: Swarm Trap deadout/abscond
« Last post by BeeMaster2 on April 23, 2024, 07:53:45 am »Phillip,
Wax moths for the most part don?t go after brand new wax. The older the wax the better they like it. If you put a frame of brand new wax in a box of old wax they will devour everything but the new wax. They will build there cocoons all over the frames and make a trail through the new wax but mainly ignore it.
Jim Altmiller
Wax moths for the most part don?t go after brand new wax. The older the wax the better they like it. If you put a frame of brand new wax in a box of old wax they will devour everything but the new wax. They will build there cocoons all over the frames and make a trail through the new wax but mainly ignore it.
Jim Altmiller
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EQUIPMENT USAGE, EXPERIMENTATION, HIVE PLANS, CONSTRUCTION TIPS AND TOOLS / Re: Frame width
« Last post by Michael Bush on April 23, 2024, 06:52:52 am »My end bars are 1-1/4" (32mm) in the brood nest. For honey it's not that critical, so anywhere from 1-1/4" if it's not drawn to 2-1/2" if it's drawn comb in the honey super.
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GENERAL BEEKEEPING - MAIN POSTING FORUM. / Re: How are your Bees?
« Last post by cao on April 22, 2024, 11:33:37 pm »I was talking about this the other day with friends. This year was a mild winter with an early spring that had no major cold snaps. Now we are getting the rains that are delaying some of the farmers from killing the cover crops to plant. So, there is an eighty-acre farm with crimson clover and some other white flower blooming that I can see the majority of my bees heading that direction when they leave their hives. I had one hive swarm almost a month ago. Having 40+ hives make it through the winter, I made the first round of splits 3 weeks ago. Almost time to check if queen is laying. I made another round of splits about a week ago. Even with those splits I have caught 6 swarms, 3 of them today. As of today, I have bees in over 110 boxes. They are full hives with multiple boxes all the way down to 4 frame nucs. Right now I have all my stands full and have nuc boxes sitting all over the place. And the bad thing is I still have 8 hives that I still need to inspect (they are probably the ones that swarmed today).
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GENERAL BEEKEEPING - MAIN POSTING FORUM. / Re: How are your Bees?
« Last post by Ben Framed on April 22, 2024, 10:43:54 pm »Thumbs up Caashenb, sounds good! It seems folks from Louisiana and South Mississippi who report on such, are in a honey hole area for catching swarms. Thanks for your repot, and keep up the good work!
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HUMOR IS A FUNNY THING / Re: Old Man Jokes
« Last post by Salvo on April 22, 2024, 08:34:01 pm »An old man goes back to bed ...And asks his wife " does the light in our bathroom turn on and off automatically ", she replies with "No why?", the old man sighs and says "well.... I'm going to buy a new fridge tomorrow"
I asked an old man, "Even after 60 years of being married, how can you still call your wife 'Honey', 'Darling' and 'Sweetheart'?"He replied, "Well I forgot her name 10 years ago and I'm scared to ask her!"
Why did the old man hate living next to the tennis courts?
He couldn't stand all the racket!
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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 April 22, 2024, 08:21:14 pm »Installed a nuc this morning from The Bee Place near San Antonio.
The proprietor there, Gary Rankin, told me that he was up to 1000 Italian queen imports to "cool down" the Africanized bee invasion that has been so hard on Texas beekeepers.
His business has exploded because Texas allows agricultural exemptions for keeping bees on personal property. The Hill Country and South Texas are retirement destinations. Localities make up for no income tax with property taxes, which are high on the "ranches" that lucrative people buy there. You'd have to see the growth of Dallas-Fort Worth, Austin, San Antonio, and Houston to understand. I am in constant awe as I travel to these places.
Gary had a couple dozen in his Beekeeping 101 class for new customers, and was selling dozens of nucs and complete set ups on this his first weekend.
The potential for honey production in this country is phenomenal. Even here in West Texas there is an untold wealth of sticky sweetness.
The proprietor there, Gary Rankin, told me that he was up to 1000 Italian queen imports to "cool down" the Africanized bee invasion that has been so hard on Texas beekeepers.
His business has exploded because Texas allows agricultural exemptions for keeping bees on personal property. The Hill Country and South Texas are retirement destinations. Localities make up for no income tax with property taxes, which are high on the "ranches" that lucrative people buy there. You'd have to see the growth of Dallas-Fort Worth, Austin, San Antonio, and Houston to understand. I am in constant awe as I travel to these places.
Gary had a couple dozen in his Beekeeping 101 class for new customers, and was selling dozens of nucs and complete set ups on this his first weekend.
The potential for honey production in this country is phenomenal. Even here in West Texas there is an untold wealth of sticky sweetness.