The Honey Factory

[jerryse]

Pulled 2 supers and extracted them. There is some locust honey in there.

 

[5Australorpasaures]

Pesky ants in the NUC feeder box. No problem, flat sticky mouse trap in the box and Diatomaceous food grade spread on ground and block hive stand. One day and they are gone, got this tip from and Old Timer on Youtube. jerryse, I AM JEALOUS! Pulling supers

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Pesky ants in the NUC feeder box. No problem, flat sticky mouse trap in the box and Diatomaceous food grade spread on ground and block hive stand. One day and they are gone, got this tip from and Old Timer on Youtube. jerryse, I AM JEALOUS! Pulling supers

Two years ago i lost a weaker hive to an ant attack. We have some vicious small ants here, called »carpenter ants«. in 2022 i had my hives on pallets on top of cinder blocks and the ants were actually nesting in the pallet's wood, raiding the bee hives during the night.
Since that experience i have my bee hive on two treated landscaping posts and the bottom paver is treated with permethrin twice a year.

 

[Apis mellifera]

A surprise today finding 2 colonies in empty stacked hive bodies today. I can keep most hives from swarming most of the time but not all of them all of the time.
Im thinking one of them is a stray.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

A surprise today finding 2 colonies in empty stacked hive bodies today. I can keep most hives from swarming most of the time but not all of them all of the time.
Im thinking one of them is a stray.

That's why i always keep a fully stocked hive with a single brood box out there. - So far no luck though.