A BEE thread....for those interested in beekeeping.

[mak1]

http://www.sembabees.org/nonnavpages/recipes.html
http://www.beesource.com/forums/showthread.php?189529-How-to-make-a-pollen-patty
https://www.honeyrunapiaries.com/beekeeping/articles/pollen-patties/

Pick one of the three.

 

[LONDON HENS]

Hello.

I was wondering if anyone could help with a question about getting the bees ready for the winter.

We plan to leave a super of honey on each hive over the winter.

When you treat the bees with api-guard for Verroa do you need to take of those supers while you treat of can they stay on?

Any advice would be great!

Thanks

John

 

[copper2]

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

 

[copper2]

Hello. 

I was wondering if anyone could help with a question about getting the bees ready for the winter.

We plan to leave a super of honey on each hive over the winter.

When you treat the bees with api-guard for Verroa do you need to take of those supers while you treat of can they stay on?

Any advice would be great!

Thanks

John

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

 

[mak1]

if you plan on eating the honey from that super next year the chemical will be in the comb and will affect the honey.

 

[mak1]

Sugar powder method does not work.

 

[copper2]

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

 

[mak1]

mite away is nice. so is apivar.

 

[geekyearthmomma]

Not trying to change the subject but what is the best book or books for a potential newbie? Bees are in the five year plan but my husband is on the fence about them.

 

[Happy Chooks]

Not trying to change the subject but what is the best book or books for a potential newbie? Bees are in the five year plan but my husband is on the fence about them.

I'm not usually a proponent of the "dummies" books, but Beekeeping for Dummies is very well laid out. I also have Hive Management, but IMO it's more for once you get started than for someone that hasn't done any beekeeping yet. I read it before I started with my hives, and some of it was a bit more involved than the basics.