Received from a reputable source on another list: Bad News!! Yahoo Groups will be down from March 15th until March 18th for more "maintenance." So in light of...
Hi all! It has been awhile since I last posted, well, actually since anyone posted. I just wanted to say that I will be installing by very first package of...
Good luck Melissa. I know that hubbies bees are really doing wonderful. They are so strong that he has already been buying queens and making up nuks. Quite...
Thanks! I installed the little beauties this morning although it was quite cloudy and little drizzly. But in a few hours the sun broke out and in no time at...
What a wonderful sight, to see each of my 5 hives teaming with bees outside. We've had temps close to 60 the last couple days and my bees have finally had a...
Lisa, I usually separate the brood nest supers with a queen excluder approx. 3 days before the queens are due to arrive. That way I don't have to go through ...
Shane Woodruff
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Apr 14, 2002 4:28 am
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I am a beginner beekeeper and I have had 2-3 hives for about 3 years. I'm now at the point that I want to buy an extractor. Since I live in the city and I...
Dave, go for the best you can afford. We have 5 hives and an old 2-frame motorized extractor. I'd love to have a 4 frame so it goes faster. How about buying...
Thanks for all the advice regarding getting an extractor. I found a used Dadant 4 frame Little Wonder which should serve my purpose. I guess I could motorize...
... My free ranging chickens and ducks don't seem to bother the bees, nor the bees the feather vieh. The chickens used to frequent the old beehouse when we...
Roni saw this story on BBC News Online and thought you should see it. ... Message: This is interesting and I thought I would share it ... *Bees to 'sniff out'...
This is interesting too http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/news/health-science/html98/bees_19990601.html In Him*****Roni Thompson "God's word is sweeter than...
Hi everyone, I hope all your hives are doing as well as mine is this summer. In all the literature I've read it said it's unusual to get surplus honey the...
The last flyer from Bee Weaver had the russian queens, which sounded pretty darn good to me. When I requeen this fall I was thinking of doing one of my 4...
okay all you bee keepers out there...our bees manage to keep surprising us year after year. We are harvesting our honey...all clear and good...then we run...
Hi Donna, thats happened to me before. I think its from the smoker. You probably smoked those frames up close for some reason and some particles went in the...
Donna, I can't see them myself some I'm thinking Joe is probably right. You were puffing your smoker hard and some of the fuel came out of your smoker onto a...
Shane Woodruff
honeybees100@...
Aug 27, 2002 1:03 pm
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not pollen...and because of the uniform size and shape of them I really think it is some kind of flower seed instead of smoker residue...but it is an...
I'm still sticking to the smoker idea, you probably had seeds in your smoker fuel. Like I said it's happened to me. -Joe Kolb ... From: Donna Judkins To:...
Can someone tell me approximately how much a gallon of honey weighs? Also, how soon should I wrap my hive for winter? I live in north-western PA. Leah ...
Hello Leah, Honey weighs roughly 1.5 times the weight of water depending on the moisture content. APISERVICES uses 1.42 times the weight of water. So, a...
Honey weighs approximately 12 pounds per pound. Shane from NJ ... __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Faith Hill - Exclusive...
Shane Woodruff
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Oct 10, 2002 11:54 pm
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ZANADUBEE@...
Oct 11, 2002 12:39 am
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ROFLMAO Okay, I give up. What does it mean? West Texas Mark...
west Texas Mark... ROFLMAO...= ROLLING ON FLOOR LAUGHING MY A** OFF [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
ZANADUBEE@...
Oct 15, 2002 2:47 am
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Wow, all that just to say, about 12 pounds per gallon. She is probably still confused and looking for her slide rule! ... the moisture ... gallon ... 8.345264...
I'm a mushroom farmer and a market gardener. I'm looking to establish my first hive or maybe two starting this upcoming spring. I see starter kits from...
Hello Eric, I've toyed with the idea of growing mushrooms. Maybe we can help each other. I've been keeping bees for only a few years, but am doing it on a ...
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