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I will be starting my first year as a beekeeper and am trying to do lots of research. And I have a question. It seems common to hear the refrain “Don’t harvest honey your first year”. Sadly people don’t seem to qualify or expand on this, and it seems like an incomplete thought. Is that...

Hi there, So, I have an interesting situation that I am hoping the community can help me with. I have been wanting to raise bees for years now and was looking forward to starting that in 2023. I will be taking my beekeeping classes early next year and initially hoped to have my first hive...

I’m new to beekeeping and started my second hive yesterday. My issue is I forgot to replace all the frames in an 8 frame Langston deep. I know it’s is best not to disturb them for a week. But will having only 5 frames be an issue? Will I come Back to a mess of burr comb? Or should I quickly put...

Hello everyone, I'm a new beekeeper vin OK. I got 2 nucs on May 6th this year. They have grown very quickly, have seen the queen in both hives, both hives were fed with a sugar water 1:1, both hives are also carniolan. Last time I was in the hives, that was May 28th, there was a lot of chapped...

Hi all, I'm a first-time beekeeper, I started with a 5 frame nuc 4 weeks ago and right off the bat had a condensation problem. I fixed that but every weekend I do a hive inspection and I cant help but feel like something is off. My girls are still on the original 5 frames and haven't even...

I have 3 hives in Mass, 2 weeks ago they were installed (package). A few days after installing we checked and all 3 queens were successfully released from their cages and were visible during inspection. 6 days later (May 14) during an inspection of their food and general activity, I noticed one...

Hi completely new to beekeeping, I was doing a hive inspection today and I came across a drone with a really dry looking thorax and spider web looking material on its wings. Is this deformed wing? Something else? Thanks for the help!

Hello so I was on her asking questions a couple of weeks ago and took some of the advise so now I have built something very close to the langstroth hive my frames did not fit just right they are about a half inch from reaching side to side but i will fix this soon. Now I posted an ad after I...

Hello, Everyone and thank you for taking the time to read this. I am looking in to ways to support my large family from home so I dove right in to farming. We are just starting out and have nothing really going good yet, but have to start some where right so now we have 2 goats 3 rabbits i went...

Hi all, I have been watching beekeeping for a while and finally took the plung. Last week I had a friend deliver about 2 pounds of bees with some cone from a meter box swarm. I took what brood cone I could find along with a bit of other good stuff and rubber banded the cone into empty frames. I...

i am new to beekeeping and have a lot of questions. For starters how long will it take for a queen to lay broud in a new hive? And do pollen patties help the qween lay faster?

At the convention of the British Columbia Honey Producers Association held in Kelowna we put on 2, - 1 hour introduction to beekeeping seminars that were open to the public so they could come in and learn a little about beekeeping and meet, talk to, and look at the products the trade show...

Hello all, I am a newer beekeeper /Host. We inherited a bee family and inspected them for the second time today. We were looking for queen in the hopes to mark her today but still could not find her. What we did find is what we think are queen bee cups. I am not sure if they are emergency or...

Hey. My name is Max. I'm from Uzbekistan. I'm 19. In the Beekeeping at age 14. I have 80 beehives, also the person with whom I work has 600 beehives. :smile: We are in the Ferghana city, after the 2 weeks we eat in the mountains in Kyrgyzstan Usgen on honey yield. I will be glad to communicate...

OK, I killed the queen of the hot hive. It is so hot I certainly wouldn't introduce a nice queen today in a cage or not. And not just temperature hot, these ladies are down right rowdy. And have been since spring. Too hot to work, don't respond to smoke even, just kept right on trying to sting...

Hi Everyone, I'm an old worker-bee who "grew up" (Hah!) on a farm in the Pacific NW and we had stacks of hives brought to our property each year. I loved the bees and would often stand a-midst them just to bee there and to watch and listen. I just completed a two day course in the basics of...