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Talked to some locals and two bears were sighted in this area about the same time as my incident. So far they have not been back, but I'm sure they will be. What is there to do? I guess nature...

Thanks, Perry! That gives me hope. I have to say damage by kids is worse. You can't really blame a bear for doing what's in its nature.

Came home from work yesterday evening to find my one last hive strewn about the yard. It was probably that way in the morning, but I did not see it in the dark (and have never had a bear problem...

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This is the greatest! We have so much wildlife here (judging by tracks), and I have always wanted to put up a camera. A few weeks back I saw bear tracks (not near the beehives, knock wood), and...

Thanks for all the info, everyone! I appear to have all the non-leather parts: Have the smoker, both wood sides of the bellows, and the large spring. Unfortunately, there is not a scrap of leather...

My Dad gave me a beautiful antique AI Root smoker for Christmas, but the bellows is completely gone. Does anyone have a template/ pattern to make a replacement bellows? Otherwise, I'll just have to...

I admit I haven't read all the posts, so I apologize if I am repeating anything.

I tend to make "summer" and "winter" batches. More wax in the summer version, and I am playing with adding zinc...

I didn't either. How odd. Heard yesterday that it was not only spinal injections. One person had a shot in the ankle.
Here's hoping your sister-in-law is safe, iddee...

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iddee speaks the truth!

The snakes here have been observed eating "my" garden toads. It makes me sad, but that's the way of things.

I did have a laugh at one snake who, with large bulge of toad in its belly, could not...

I have not taken any either. In spring, I was too busy. When I checked in early Sept, the hive was looking a little light to make it through the winter, so I'm leaving it all.

In my yard, I typically don't get close enough to look a snake in the eyes!

My classic was moving a hive to my yard, then waiting about 5 days, picking up the box I had left for the stragglers, and plopping it on top of the original hive as if it would be a family reunion. ...

I'm throwing in my thanks as well, Omie. Not just great honeybee advice, but also gardening wisdom, some musical entertainment, and I loved that mason bee video!

Wisteria is beautiful, but you need to keep up with it. It is lovely, growing up one of my porch posts, but every year I have to get the ladder and pull it out from under the roof shingles and...

"Why do you keep honeybees?"

The answer to that is something most people would never understand, and another beekeeper would know without asking.

I hope you can work to build an immunity, but...

That's a great idea!

Nectar fills the cells
Bee alchemists hard at work
Turn flowers to gold

Thanks for all the input! That's good advice, tec. I will consider some fall feeding. Asters are just starting here, so I'm hoping the fall flow will be reasonable. I have shallow frames with...

iddee, you have gotten your money's worth out of that router control!

I have one hive right now. I would recommend two. Most of the reasons have been given above. As a relative novice, the most important one for me is being able to compare the two. (It's been dry...

Ordinarily, I would have gone with the standard 2 deep on the bottom, but last year I had a serious wax moth issue in my stored frames, and ended up cutting the comb out of all of them. I had drawn...

Granted I only have one hive, and I have been the world's most neglectful beekeeper, due to my work schedule. (Although the bees do not seem to have minded me not tearing their home apart!)

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Interesting but kind of sad, too.

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/08/23/13435771-3-million-bees-seized-from-queens-ny-mans-home?lite/