robbing

Wish me luck, today was the day I split my big hive, the 2015 swarm that overwintered beautifully twice, excellent producers, nice gluey bees make lots of propolis AND last summer they killed 2 cutouts and 3 splits with bought queens as soon as I got them set up. So today, I divided them. 2...

I have tried everything to stop the robbing. :frustrated: I had gone into the hives in late August, honey stores were so low or nil. We have been feeding sugar water 200 feet away from the beeyard. First the liquid feeder they crawl into, was a fiasco as they suffocated each other til...

Not to steal Tecumseh's thunder, but this one is safer as far as robbing, shb and wax moth. Takes a LOT longer to build. (an hour for 2) North Texas bee a/c units. This will do 2 Lang hives tomorrow. And I pulled a medium full of frames in case one of them is bearding due to overcrowding. The...