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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 May 13, 2024, 09:31:05 pm »

Ran out of time late yesterday afternoon and only had the chance to recycle 12 frames. Will continue to steam frames this morning and scrape them to remove any slum gum or propolis that is left behind. I was actually a bit slack and left these dead out boxes outside for quite a while and the wax moth really did a good job on them. It is surprising how much wax the larvae actually consume. I did remelt the wax that was recovered from the frames. Got exactly 1000g from the 12 frames. A little less than what I usually get but it?s all profit. Steaming does give a nice clean wax and recoveries quite a bit that is locked up in the black comb.

Steaming!

What a great idea!

I've got a lot of frames from dead outs to recondition.  This is just the solution.

Thank you!

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

« Last post by Lesgold on May 13, 2024, 08:14:16 pm »

Ran out of time late yesterday afternoon and only had the chance to recycle 12 frames. Will continue to steam frames this morning and scrape them to remove any slum gum or propolis that is left behind. I was actually a bit slack and left these dead out boxes outside for quite a while and the wax moth really did a good job on them. It is surprising how much wax the larvae actually consume. I did remelt the wax that was recovered from the frames. Got exactly 1000g from the 12 frames. A little less than what I usually get but it?s all profit. Steaming does give a nice clean wax and recoveries quite a bit that is locked up in the black comb.

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FARMING & COUNTRY LIFE / Re: Laser projects

« Last post by Lesgold on May 13, 2024, 05:57:34 pm »

Good stuff Jim. How long was the engraving for this project?

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FARMING & COUNTRY LIFE / Re: Laser projects

« Last post by animal on May 13, 2024, 10:40:05 am »

Yes, very nice: both workmanship and sentiment.

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FARMING & COUNTRY LIFE / Re: Laser projects

« Last post by Terri Yaki on May 13, 2024, 08:37:58 am »

That sure look good, Jim. Congratulations.

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FARMING & COUNTRY LIFE / Re: Laser projects

« Last post by BeeMaster2 on May 13, 2024, 08:18:02 am »

Here is the plaque that made for Judy.

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

« Last post by Michael Bush on May 13, 2024, 05:16:52 am »

All these people talking about murdering bees... I'm triggered.

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

« Last post by Lesgold on May 13, 2024, 01:04:48 am »

It's the first dry day for over a week so it was the perfect opportunity to recycle some frames from a couple of dead outs that have been sitting around getting infested with wax moth. Got the fire cranked up with some pallet off cuts and loaded the first box of frames into the steamer. Some of the frames were heavily infested so a nice little cook with some steam will help to solve the problem. I?ll leave them in the steamer for about half an hour or so which will then make the frames easy to scrape clean. The residue will be fed into the worm farms where it will be broken down into compost.

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FARMING & COUNTRY LIFE / Re: Tornado hit yesterday

« Last post by Occam on May 12, 2024, 11:46:37 pm »

That's progress, a good step forward

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

« Last post by beesnweeds on May 12, 2024, 02:53:47 pm »

I peeked inside the portals on my hives and saw condensation in the top two boxes, I didn't open the lower box because there were some ant cruising around and they have the bottom one sealed up. Anyhow, is that condensation a problem? I was cool last night and warmed up quicky this morning. I have not checked back to see if it's still there but I will.

Thats normal when you're feeding 1:1 sugar syrup.  It's a problem in the fall, thats why 2:1 is recommended for fall feeding.  As the stores dry out it creates condensation.  When your colony builds up to the configuration you want to overwinter in, 2 deeps or 3 mediums in your area, you can stop feeding and add a honey super.  Right now, when you inspect you are seeing stored sugar syrup, not nectar or honey.