Due to work, school, etc. I was unable to extract two supers of honey
last fall. I just checked on them and the honey looks partly
crystalized, and it looks like some has seeped out. The honey didn't
have the best taste, though I don't think it was actually bad--just
the flower source used by the bees to make it.
What should I do with these two supers? I have one hive, and it is
doing well. If I sat them on top of the hive would they "recycle" it,
or just treat it like filled supers and want more space above? I'm
still pretty inexperienced, so any help would be appreciated.

Rick
in the Ozarks

Perhaps the NWPBA group and a few others should check this one out.

Bee CCD not a problem for our robust little Olalla Bumble Bees.

- Brad Guth Brad_Guth Brad.Guth BradGuth

Hail,
Don't know if this is the right place to ask any of this stuff, and
thanks in advance for any responses I get.

I am writing a novel, set in Anglo-Saxon Britain, and a swarm of bees
turn up.

How safe is a swarm of bees? Could someone who had minimal experience
but a whole lot of luck handle them safely?

My memeory (very rusty) of this is that the sound is quite loud. Is
it the same pitch as bees normally make, or is it noticably lower? Is
there a definite smell - something that a lay person would describe as
a smell of honey?

How difficult is it to get a swarm of bees that has just settled on a
branch of a tree to move from one place to another?

And I have seen footage of people with bee beards - has anyone here
got any experience of these, or know where I could find out? What
does this kind of thing feel like?

Thanks very much in advance.

I had two colonies, one died out last winter and I put the spare brood box
on the full brood box to allow the good colony to grow, with a queen
excluder and a couple of supers on top.

Had a look today and alas, the top super is full of brood. I didn't look any
further. either the queen has got through the excluder, or the supers are
full of brood and the brood boxes are used for stores.

I'm assuming in a week or so I can separate the two hives, a brood box and a
super on each and the one without the queen will make a new one. Is this a
reasonable assumption?

Thanks

I recently (last Tuesday) got a new nuke, and I noticed that many of
the mature bees were already focusing on honey stores rather than hive
preparation and expansion. I have tried giving pollen substitutes
(yeast) and also leaving bee candy in order to minimise work on food
thus maximising labour focused on hive work, unfortunately they
haven’t touched either and seem to be content staying only on the 3
frames supplied with the small nuke. I have inspected these frames,
located the queen, and she seems to have suspended laying due to lack
of space, I am very concerned as I planed to split the hive early next
year (later this year if they really took).
Furthermore, this seems a massive waste, as she is a well bred queen
at her laying peak.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Please email me and also
post, so others with this problem of slow comb drawing, may also
benefit from the wisdom of the replies!

Thanks.

P.S: also if anyone knows of any groups of beekeepers in the
Hertfordshire aria I would like to look into finding them, so any
details would be great!

Walagama was thinking very hard :

Try tolovannakiwi@aol.com

I received this email today; anyone out there who may be able to help?

Bit far for me being in Cape Town SA.. 80)

Thanks,

Dean
www.apiculture.co.za

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Hello,

I found your site on google while searching for bee rescuers. My
sister lives in Rome, NY USA and has a massive hive in her home. I
have tried to find a bee rescue operation in that area to save the
bees instead of killing them all to no avail. I know NYS alone has
lost over one third of its bee population and I just know that there
is someone out there who would be willing to rescue the hive. Do you
know any one through your rescue organization that I could contact to
help??? It must be addressed quickly as her home is overrun. While she
wants as I to save them she may have to get an exterminator. Any help
will be greatly appreciated...

Kelly Stella
9128970170