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
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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...
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ROFLMAO Okay, I give up. What does it mean? West Texas Mark...
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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 ...
you might want to check out a bee association in your area also...I know we always have a few swarms of bees to give away in the spring...and with the mite...
<PRE>I just came back from an Ohio State bee meeting and one of the speakers was the West Virginia State bee inspector George Clutter. He brought two hand ...
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A team of us in the USA need 30 seconds of your time to help protect bees worldwide from the "next varroa", whatever that might turn out to be. Please send an...
Thanks for the info West Texas Mark. First of all I do want to discuss my location because I have some concern that it isn't ideal. I live in southern Oregon...
Morning Eric, Well, unless you have A LOT of wildflowers and blooming trees, you probably won't have any record breaking honey crops. It will take a lot more...
Thanks Mark, that was helpful. There may be a possibility I could find a place to put a hive in the valley. It's the 'Rogue' valley. Thousands of acres of...
Electric fencing IS the way to go for detering bears. We live in the middle of the woods and had at least 5 bears within 1/4 mile of the house this summer....
We have used a bear fence in our yards for years. We use a 4 strand fence on our permanent yards and as we live in a vary dry area we have staked chicken wire...
Time runs out on Monday, Nov 18th. That's THIS Monday. Unless a very large number of us object, the USA will set a new low in "World Trade", and set a...
Hi everyone, We ended up with about 70 pounds of surplus honey. I'm putting what's left of it after giving much away in 12 oz. bears to sell at a craft show....
I sell my 12 oz. bears for $4.00 at craft shows and the like. West Texas Mark ... left of it after giving much away in 12 oz. bears to sell at a craft show. ...