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I'm with ya!

I really don't know, dishwashers do get hot during the dry cycle, and if it's working for canning I think your OK. I'm kinda funny about food safety especially when I am giving to other folks.

Absolutely NO!

90% capped, pulling tomorrow, today cleaning extractor and honey bucket even though was cleaned last fall, start sterilizing jars tomorrow morning, good thing as I gulped the last of the fall honey yesterday. :thumbsup

Went to let the chickens out at daybreak, took a quick glance at the hives and noticed no one going to work but the ones that got caught working overtime at sunset were bringing home the pollen. When I pollenated Blue Berries we would remove the hives at night. The next day the bees that got...

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For the fall flow I'm going with the 9 Frame on established hive and probably going to carry over for next spring. Today is the first day for the Cranberry pollen blast and they are coming in loaded, some will get mixed in with the honey that I'll be pulling in a week or so, do a Varroa count...

When I pull supers for extracting I waste no time. I put the extracted box right back on the hive for the bees to glean any honey residue and start right back to work. I don't give them foundation as R2elk said until 70-80%, but as we are looking at a 7-10 day stretch of temps in the 90s the...

Blk Aus, prolific layers.

All you need is a crew and a fork lift to put it in place, nice build though. They weren"t mistakes, they were "adjustments".

Thats funny, the house I grew up in had a huge colony between the stud bays in my sisters room, so huge and thriving that honey actually oozed out of the cracks in the plaster. They were destroyed using Chlordane which I felt hastened her death, also affected my dad as his room was below hers.

Various non poisonous snakes, lizards, turtles and one large dog.

Getting picked up by a woman on the South Street Bridge in Philly at 3 yrs old and being taken to the police station, sitting on the desk with a police hat and lollipop till mom and dad sprung me. 1954, things were different back then. Always was a wanderer.

Also I have read with the Apivar and maybe, not sure, the Formic Pro the mites can become resistant. Breeders are working as are the bees on strains that are mite resistant. If I was still pollenating with 20 hives I would go with gassing but with no more than 4 I'm going with ease and...

Ain't it PURRTY! :thumbsup

When you say the bees were running all around are they queenless. Did your queen move with the split leaving no queen rearing opportunities in the original hive? Just a thought.

Good idea to have your guy take a look. Hopefully you can get a handle on what's goin' on. It's still only June so there is time for honey. I'm looking at 90 lbs +/- that the bees are taking their good ol' time capping, I know buy the end of the month I'll be extracting and this year I'm letting...

I don't buy waxed foundation, I coat it myself with our wax and sweeten the deal with some honey mixed with the wax and do this just before the bees are ready for another "box". The wax will lose it's appeal if the foundation sits around. Never had a problem with wonky comb using this method.

I honestly don't know, it occupies a spot on top of the refrigerator dead as a stone, Have no use for it.