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Selling Lanternfly Honey
Read an interesting article published by the Baltimore Sun https://www.baltimoresun.com/2026/08/14/lanternfly-poop-hoco-honey-ellicott-city/
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Thank you!
Just wanted to say thank you to all who helped organize, run, teach, and all the things that went into the extraction party. Everyone was super nice and welcoming and allowed for us newer beeks to learn and get some experience while having fun in our community.
While I only extracted 3 frames of honey, we had a lot of fun jarring it up as a family for gifts to our neighbors and friends. Thanks again!
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Our bees can't come with us.
Hello, we are selling our home and moving out of state later this summer. Unfortunately, we will not be able to take our two colonies with us. We are offering them to anyone in the club who can come get them. They need to go before we close on our house (mid-late July). We plan to restart beekeeping after our move, so we would prefer to keep the boxes. Please bring your own boxes to haul the frames if possible. The two hives are 8 frame and each have one deep and three mediums. We also have an approximately 30”w x 72”l x 20”d wooden stand for the two hives.
The bees are from last year and we’ve seen both queens this year. We also treated with Varroxsan Oxalic Acid Strips this spring. One hive was becoming honey bound in May so we extracted approximately a gallon of honey. There is still plenty…
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Beekeeping Equipment
Everything you need to start BeeKeeping or expand your existing Apiary
Condition : Used - Good
$675
Retiring from Beekeeping, equipment includes:
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Bees on Frames in garage.
hi all,
not really a swarming situation, but I had some older beekeeping equipment in the garage (boxes & frames, mostly empty, but a few with honey on them), left the garage open while I was mowing the lawn, and apparently a few dozen honeybees found the frames (they were stored in bags). for now, I pulled everything out of the garage and removed all the empty frames from the boxes. is it okay to let the bees clean everything up, or should I toss everything? I verified with my father-in-law that he had had no issue with disease (other than varroa mites).
I had planned to start hives this year, but had some uncertainty with a work situtation, so putting it off until next year is the plan.
any advice appreciated!
-mike
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MikeW #10
May 18
what I ended up doing was take everything out of the garage and removed all of the frames from any boxes (the only ones with honey on them were in bags), removed all of the frames from the bags as well. the bees were active, but not aggresive at all and followed me out of the garage. once I got the frames out of the bags, all of the bees (probably about 75-100 total settled on 2 frames of capped honey. I took all of the other frames I had and bagged them up and disposed of them, then went back after dark, and the bees had left, bagged up those two and disposed of them as well. I plan to take the rest of the wood/equipment to transfer station this weekend.
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2 Nucs for sale in Sykesville/Eldersburg
David Shultz HCBA continuing education class met at my house this week and we created 2 medium 5 frame nucs that I would like to sell @ 130 each. They tested 0 mite count. Queens are strong, overwintered, and 1 yr old.
Call or text 443-604-0240.
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Bob Boyd
Jun 24
I'm converting my dbl deep hives that I've used for several years to meduims boxes for everything, because of the weight. All my boxes are 10 frames. Other people that have done this what do you try to go through the Winter with? Two Mediums for the brood Then another medium for honey reserves for the Winter? Or do you end up more then three mediums? Thanks.
Bob
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Caught a Swarm. Now what
Caught a Swarm with comercail trap. Its up in a tree. Lots of activity for three day. So leave them up there for a couple days so the settle in? Then move them two miles away and then back to my hives? My hives are only about 300 feet away Anything else Thanks Bob
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Dave Dobbs
Jun 19
Yes, move them the 2-3 miles away for 1-2 weeks before moving them back. You can keep them in the swarm trap for now but put in standard boxes when you return. Make sure you feed when you get back home, no matter what season. Make their new digs a nice place to live.
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5 Gallon Buckets on Sale
Until May 17th, Costco has NSF (food grade) 5 gallon Buckets 3 for $4.99. This is the cheapest I've ever seen food-grade buckets! No lids... Lowes has food grade lids for $2.98, 12 pack food safe lids on amazon, currently 14.97. Lids also available elsewhere, just make sure that they're food safe!
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Dave Dobbs
Jun 19
Check you local bakery at 1PM and they usually have FREE Food Grade icing buckets available. At Weis they even wash them for me.
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Hey, does anyone have current contact info for Jim Frazier OTHER than an email address? I am receiving questionable emails from his account and want to verify that they came from him rather than a hacker.
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Hey Bob= those were in the same style as the ones we had with the club a while back. I did email him, and sent him the intercepted one, too. He's working on getting it fixed. Whatever you do, don't open that attched file!
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Love this post, thanks for sharing. i ditto those sentiments. This was my first extraction season and while I only extracted 5 frames, I learned a to. And my bees still have alot for winter.
Thanks Dave and Tina!