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Hi all, first year bee keeper. Just went into the two hives to put in mite treatment. First hive, all went well, compressed the hive from 1 deep and 3 med to 1 deep and two medium, put the treatment in and put feeders on top.

Second hive was active but not as full of bees. started down sizing it, got the top me all full of honey, opened up the bottom two boxes to put the treatment in and there was no capped brood. Both hives, started as nuc's, were very strong all year producing plenty of hones and bees.

Question is, could I even find a mated queen to purchase yet and even is so, would it be worth it or should I call the hive a loss for the winter and plan on getting another one in the spring?

Thanks,

Dan

Had an interesting thing happen this morning. I was marking a new queen and everything was going like normal. I was able to capture her in the marking plunger, I removed the worker bees and then I marked her by pushing the plunger up and gently pushing down on the top so that she would be immobilized as I marked her. I marked her and kept the pressure on for just a few seconds then I released the plunger so that she could move around while the paint dried without worry about the paint smearing. The thing is, she didn't move. My heart skipped several beats and I said some choice things but I could not think of anything that I did wrong. I kept her in the cage and put her aside while I finished the inspection. All the time thinking what to do. After the inspection, I…

Read an interesting article published by the Baltimore Sun https://www.baltimoresun.com/2026/08/14/lanternfly-poop-hoco-honey-ellicott-city/

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!

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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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

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.

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