The Way To Bee

Backyard Beekeeping Questions and Answers Episode 262 getting brood out of honey supers and more...


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Topics and time stamps generously provided by Adam Holmes

CHAPTERS:

00:00 Introduction

06:21 The rapid round feeders are not in stock on Amazon, any other suggestions?

12:56 We're having a dearth, what are your thoughts on my mite treatment plan?

16:20 Made a walk-away split 3 weeks ago. Should I wait, or do something?

17:40 I want to change my setup from 2-deeps and a Flow-Super to One Deep and a Medium while making a split. Is there enough time left?

24:14 Where can I find the tags you use on your hives? What do I need to attach them?

28:57 A farmer will plant anything I want. What are your thoughts?

36:40 Trying to salvage colonies by introducing swarm cells, but they didn't take. Would it be better to just buy queens?

42:55 Have a deep brood box with four medium supers on, there is brood in every box. Not really sure what to do with this hive.

48:44 How do you prepare your apiary when you go on vacation?

51:19 I have a queen with spotty brood. What's the best way to requeen this hive?

58:40 I put a swarm into a nucleus hive and it all got smashed up. No idea if I killed the queen.

01:02:15 Queen flew off to greener pastures during queen isolation cage installation... UPDATE

01:03:40 3 weeks ago, I had pollen coming in at more than 10 loads per minute. Now only 1 or 2 loads a minute. Do bees bring pollen in when there are laying workers producing drones?

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The Way To BeeBy Frederick J Dunn