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What breed are they?

Never heard about them till now! I want some!!! I do have a feral bee colony that's been thriving in a tree for years. If my bees survive the winter maybe I'll try getting them to raise a new queen, my colony has no drones so she should mate with the feral colony, hopefully!

I'm in zone 8 in dripping springs Tx. Thank you so much I forgot completely that winter bees live longer! I'll continue feeding!!!!!!!!!

Oh, really? There was barely any! My bees are a italian/ buckfast hybrid I think, I got them from bee weaver

Or half :(

There's not even one whole frame of brood

I don't think my bees are surviving the winter :hu . They haven't filled out all 10 frames, and they have honey stores but almost no brood. :hu I think it's the queen, but I can't find her, I did see a hive beetle. No one is selling queens anymore, and I'll be surprised if they survive.

This year is my first year

I think I have a poor quality queen, I should of bought a new queen! I fed the bees, gave them pollen sub, and right now is a major honey flow( at least for the feral bees) there harvesting a lot of pollen and nectar, but I don't think it's a real honey flow for them, I can count how many are...

I think they made the sap in to propolis, ran out of matches can't tell for sure

What will happen if I don't extract it? (Don't have extracting equipment yet)

How do I stop them from keeping it?

My bees were recently harvesting tree sap(honey dearth)!

I started bee keeping this year and would suggest: Homegrown honey bees by Alethea Morrison. Also on release try the marshmallow plug for the queen cage, and spray the bees down with a lot of suger syrup, and feed them year round the first year!

Try drone comb trapping, with powder sugar method, they work together great I heard. And please remember all chemicals affect the bees usually.

If API guard is a chemical if suggest taking off the super

I'm new to bee keeping too, and my bees are varroa mite resistant, so don't know much. Try sprinkling powdered sugar on the bees, half a cup for each deep. Hope this helps

How do I make pollen substitute?

I think the biting was a accident but they are attracted to the syrup

Thanks will do, but what do I do about ants? Was feeding them and a bee was making a racket checked it and an ant was biting it's proboscis.