Beemaster's International Beekeeping Forum
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This forum is for all new and seasoned beekeepers, students, and teachers to share questions and answers concerning all beekeeping-related issues. Introduce yourself, place all questions and comments about disease and pest control, and share all your techniques for requeening hives and rearing new queens with the other members.
Beemaster's International Beekeeping Forum
24m ago
Nurse bees are the ones that decide what is needed and how much they need. They decide that they need pollen, nectar, water or propolis. The scouts job is to find the needed supplies and tell the other bees where it is.
Jim Altmiller e ..read more
Beemaster's International Beekeeping Forum
4h ago
I use FormicPro sometimes, and it is very easy to use and organic. The biggest benefit is that it is the only treatment (that I am aware of anyway) that kills mites under the brood cappings. It also will kill sick bees, so I always use it if a have a ..read more
Beemaster's International Beekeeping Forum
5h ago
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/alpine-environment/number-of-swiss-bee-colonies-increases-but-fewer-beekeepers/76401853 ..read more
Beemaster's International Beekeeping Forum
5h ago
Anybody watching his videos?
I find it interesting how somebody in a very different climate to mine and at a very different scale to mine keeps bees.It is nearly May and he is still feeding gallons of sugar water and masses of patties.
All the gear and ..read more
Beemaster's International Beekeeping Forum
5h ago
This came into my inbox today:
https://www.ecrotek.com.au/products/formic-pro-2-pkt
$ 20 per hive!!!
I wonder how many are willing to spend this much a couple of times a year?
The use seems easy enough. It is "organic ..read more
Beemaster's International Beekeeping Forum
10h ago
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I've never heard of this. Could you describe it a little more?
The hive was open and on top of one of the frames there was one bee going around nudging on other bees. According to him, that was a 'get to work' nudge. It was kind of a pu ..read more
Beemaster's International Beekeeping Forum
11h ago
Lots of things! Which is one reason why opening a bee hive is so much fun. Bees will clean each other, which can look kind of aggressive sometimes. They will set up fanning lines to move air from deep in the nest to the entrance. If you eve ..read more
Beemaster's International Beekeeping Forum
13h ago
Oh yeah, it's true. The assassin probably would have been successful too, except the bullet went through Teddy's coat pocket, and fortunately for him, inside his pocket was his steel glasses case and his 50 page speech, which slowed the bullet enough ..read more
Beemaster's International Beekeeping Forum
15h ago
The waggle dance is pretty well known as a method of communicating a few different things to the colony but what other behaviors are there that bees partake in?
My mentor showed me how some of them whip the others to work in the morning and get them st ..read more
Beemaster's International Beekeeping Forum
23h ago
Quote from: BeeMaster2 on April 24, 2024, 12:09:50 pm
Jim,
That is really interesting. I wonder if the number of hives is too high to allow each hive to make excessive honey. If the area can support that many hives it would bee ..read more