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Certain types of honey crystallize in the comb very easily. What would happen with these if the honey crystallizes?

Propylis or what I call bee glue. One little dot of that may keep the whole...

I have read about these flow hives before and thought they were more of a gimmick.

It will be interesting to hear your thoughts after a couple more uses.

There are many different bees than the...

I treated with Formic acid this fall.

I tried some two year old mead this fall that a friend made and it definitely gets better with age.

A local blog by the place I get much of my supplies.

What Should I Be Doing With My Bees This Month?

I find it interesting that you want to treat for mites in the spring. I have always been told Fall is the time to treat them after you pull your honey and the brood are at a low number. Kill the...

I wrapped by bees up for the winter today.

5 colonies look good and one is questionable.

Things are out of my hands until spring. I may check them on a warm day in Feb or there about.

My tax dollars at work.

A new bee 'sky rise' in Como Park offers home for pollinators - StarTribune.com

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I would put one in my yard for free but from what I understand it...

On top of the plastic box I put a super that I just extracted honey from.

They didn't leave at dark.

Did I catch a swarm?

We will see in the morning!

I decided to give up extracting for the day......

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I decided after only getting stung one in the finger trying to pick up a scraper.

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I pulled the last of my supers today. 13 in all but not all full. I am hoping for about 8 full equivelents.

Does that make sense???:hmmm:

They were mad today even before I started I got stung...

Took the first honey of the year for me. About 70 lbs by the bathroom scale. 1 bucket 18.2'% moisture the other 18.4%.

I have to check out the new to me used heated knife. It kept cooling off I...

I ran across this.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLKmfZCYh0s

My big excitement today was installing some honey gates in 5 gallon buckets.

Gosh I lead a boring life!:D

Sometimes old tools work best.

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One article I read said that last year the average Minnesota hive was down a bit and averaged 58 lbs.

That is why you should buy local.

What you buy in the average store has the good stuff filtered out and probably cut with corn syrup.

Always learning.

I showed this picture and a video I took to my mentor and he had me check out the following link.

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What Should I Be Doing With My Bees This Month?: Washboarding bees

Not a good bee related day. I am worried about 3 hives two that swarmed and the swarm that I caught. I will just have to let nature take its course and hope for the best.

Both the backs of my...

I am glad that i test fit my foundation before going to my bees.

A made a mistake and ordered the wrong size foundation. I put in the number one row up.....

To look on the bright side luckily...

I think what you are talking about is propolis or bee glue. They coat and stick everything with it.

These box's are going to be added to the top of existing hives and although i see that your...

I only painted the outside and if you look close the frames and the inside are not. That is where the bees are.

The foundation is the wax pattern for the bees to form their comb on. Maybe not to a...

Wet paint!

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Painted up 6 of the used supers and assembled 60 frames to fill them.

Gonna let the paint dry and install the foundation tomorrow.

I have always liked flowers but since I have had the bees I have found that I am paying much more attention to when and where they bloom.:D

I was visiting a friend on my way to check my bees today and realized that I forgot a marshmallow to release the queens.

I thought that it doesn't hurt to ask.......

His wife tried hard to...

Very good question!

I am not very good at finding 1 queen in 50,000 bees or so......:o

In one hive I scraped off the closed queen cells but when I looked at them they had dead bees in them. The...

Lots happening in my bee related world today!

I am now up to 7 hives as I have captured/attracted a swarm that probably came from one of my own two hives that swarmed.

I purchased 2 new...