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Post by duff on Dec 18, 2020 9:41:05 GMT -5
Man I missed out on the honey order. Put me on your list. I will buy a squeeze bottle or 2. Nothing better than fresh honey.
I have toyed with setting hives on my property but just don't make the time to be totally committed to them. Maybe in 5 or 10 yrs. My dad had up to 7 hives when I was in grade school. He had to get rid of them when his reactions to stings got too bad.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2020 10:05:50 GMT -5
Man I missed out on the honey order. Put me on your list. I will buy a squeeze bottle or 2. Nothing better than fresh honey. I have toyed with setting hives on my property but just don't make the time to be totally committed to them. Maybe in 5 or 10 yrs. My dad had up to 7 hives when I was in grade school. He had to get rid of them when his reactions to stings got too bad. Eating honey, pollen and wax is close to the tree of life. If I had a choice on one food for survival it would be honey. I waited until the age of 57 so never to late. Bought my 1st hive in summer of 2018, but everyone was sold out and learned it was late to start a hive. So my 1st bees was last year. I'm 100% addicted to it.
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Post by saltydog on Dec 19, 2020 6:22:24 GMT -5
Great information waynes, I my self am ready with 3 more hives too set.
Waynes have you used the lemon grass method to draw bees to a new hive ?
Im setting one of the hives about 20 miles from the house within a mile of a major bee keeper in Martinsville. Like you said once they leave the property they are free range. I say that with some reserve due to the knowledge of said master bee keeper , I'm sure he probably knows the method of capturing the queen before she swarms.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 19, 2020 19:01:33 GMT -5
Great information waynes, I my self am ready with 3 more hives too set. Waynes have you used the lemon grass method to draw bees to a new hive ? Im setting one of the hives about 20 miles from the house within a mile of a major bee keeper in Martinsville. Like you said once they leave the property they are free range. I say that with some reserve due to the knowledge of said master bee keeper , I'm sure he probably knows the method of capturing the queen before she swarms. Yes, I have 5 swarm boxes and each one I put lemon grass in the back of the box. I'm putting 2 or 3 at my brothers farm, one each at the other 2 aparies.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 19, 2020 19:05:38 GMT -5
Adding space boxes help and always having 1st year queens. Young queens seldom swarm. Master keepers replace queens every year or every other.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2020 15:42:55 GMT -5
With the nicer weather I painted 5 deep brood boxes and 3 bottom boards. Two coats on the sides and one on bottom-top edge. Tomorrow I'll put 2nd coat on the two edges.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2020 3:47:13 GMT -5
With the nicer weather I painted 5 deep brood boxes and 3 bottom boards. Two coats on the sides and one on bottom-top edge. Tomorrow I'll put 2nd coat on the two edges. Better get after it, there`s a drastic cold front coming through...
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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2020 8:04:50 GMT -5
With the nicer weather I painted 5 deep brood boxes and 3 bottom boards. Two coats on the sides and one on bottom-top edge. Tomorrow I'll put 2nd coat on the two edges. Better get after it, there`s a drastic cold front coming through... Not a big issue. I don't need them until next year (spring). Just trying to stay ahead of time. You know how fast it goes. Plus I can heat my barn. I have a torpedo, propane heater and an electric heater, but like you said on those cold winter days I don't try to heat up to 50 degrees. What I need is a electric fan heater sized for 1000 Square feet. I think that is what my son's are getting me for Christmas. Son Sam gave it away a little about two a weeks ago. We wanted to know if I had another 50 amp breaker for the barn. Only that would require some amperes. Already have the 50 ampere welding station.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2021 15:09:49 GMT -5
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Post by Mack Apiary Bees on Mar 9, 2021 20:17:33 GMT -5
Wayne's honeybees is back. I had some major public cloud issues. 2nd time know our company and the servers that run our cloud software with Microsoft was visited by FBI. An entity was trying a excess Microsoft. Had to clean slat on all social networks. All old ones are gone except this one with my new name.
By the way the hives are doing great. Only lost two small hives from last year. A third small hive made it, but I'm tlcing that hive. Already added honey supers to two hives. I have 11 hives now and plan to expand to 20 to 25 hives. I have enough equipment now for 21 hives. I plan to sell around 14 5-frame nucs this year.
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Post by greghopper on Mar 9, 2021 20:31:52 GMT -5
Wayne's honeybees is back. I had some major public cloud issues. 2nd time know our company and the servers that run our cloud software with Microsoft was visited by FBI. An entity was trying a excess Microsoft. Had to clean slat on all social networks. All old ones are gone except this one with my new name. By the way the hives are doing great. Only lost two small hives from last year. A third small hive made it, but I'm tlcing that hive. Already added honey supers to two hives. I have 11 hives now and plan to expand to 20 to 25 hives. I have enough equipment now for 21 hives. I plan to sell around 14 5-frame nucs this year. So did gregr/josey have the same cloud issues as you? His account was deleted same date and almost same time as your account... Hmmm 🤔
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Post by whitetaildave24 on Mar 9, 2021 21:31:18 GMT -5
Wayne's honeybees is back. I had some major public cloud issues. 2nd time know our company and the servers that run our cloud software with Microsoft was visited by FBI. An entity was trying a excess Microsoft. Had to clean slat on all social networks. All old ones are gone except this one with my new name. By the way the hives are doing great. Only lost two small hives from last year. A third small hive made it, but I'm tlcing that hive. Already added honey supers to two hives. I have 11 hives now and plan to expand to 20 to 25 hives. I have enough equipment now for 21 hives. I plan to sell around 14 5-frame nucs this year. Oh give me a break. Back again to do some trolling. Let’s get the political thread raging again. Amazingly this forum stayed for you, but none of the others did. If this one stayed why was the new name necessary?
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Post by Mack Apiary Bees on Mar 10, 2021 8:17:57 GMT -5
Wayne's honeybees is back. I had some major public cloud issues. 2nd time know our company and the servers that run our cloud software with Microsoft was visited by FBI. An entity was trying a excess Microsoft. Had to clean slat on all social networks. All old ones are gone except this one with my new name. By the way the hives are doing great. Only lost two small hives from last year. A third small hive made it, but I'm tlcing that hive. Already added honey supers to two hives. I have 11 hives now and plan to expand to 20 to 25 hives. I have enough equipment now for 21 hives. I plan to sell around 14 5-frame nucs this year. So did gregr/josey have the same cloud issues as you? His account was deleted same date and almost same time as your account... Hmmm 🤔 Not that I know. I think he followed me on the delete. I wanted to clear all references to "safe" . Like what's in a safe.
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Post by Mack Apiary Bees on Mar 10, 2021 8:22:48 GMT -5
Wayne's honeybees is back. I had some major public cloud issues. 2nd time know our company and the servers that run our cloud software with Microsoft was visited by FBI. An entity was trying a excess Microsoft. Had to clean slat on all social networks. All old ones are gone except this one with my new name. By the way the hives are doing great. Only lost two small hives from last year. A third small hive made it, but I'm tlcing that hive. Already added honey supers to two hives. I have 11 hives now and plan to expand to 20 to 25 hives. I have enough equipment now for 21 hives. I plan to sell around 14 5-frame nucs this year. Oh give me a break. Back again to do some trolling. Let’s get the political thread raging again. Amazingly this forum stayed for you, but none of the others did. If this one stayed why was the new name necessary? Thanks. No trolling from this guy or at least very little. I just added to the name. lol PS: Right now my work server is down. We are going to install on a dedicated server and gateway and in the virtual world of that server.
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Post by greghopper on Mar 10, 2021 9:17:30 GMT -5
So did gregr/josey have the same cloud issues as you? His account was deleted same date and almost same time as your account... Hmmm 🤔 Not that I know. I think he followed me on the delete. I wanted to clear all references to "safe" . Like what's in a safe. Stay off the “QAnon “ site and your be SAFE!
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Post by Mack Apiary Bees on Mar 10, 2021 9:37:42 GMT -5
Not that I know. I think he followed me on the delete. I wanted to clear all references to "safe" . Like what's in a safe. Stay off the “QAnon “ site and your be SAFE! All of them and be safer!
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Post by Mack Apiary Bees on Mar 15, 2021 19:44:18 GMT -5
Pollen patties recipe: 1 lbs of ultra dry pollen 3.75 cups of white sugar 3 teaspoons of vegetable oil 1 mushed up brown About 5 to 10 ounces of hot water. This varies do to moisture. Mix up until tacky. Add dry pollen if needed. Flatten out small ball on wax paper. Makes about 9 patties. I just made a double batch. Feeding the bees next 2 days.
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Post by Mack Apiary Bees on Mar 18, 2021 11:42:20 GMT -5
New Hoosier Apiary on my brother's farm. Note: My deer round blind is only 10 yards away. Try to find it. On the bench are two of three swarm traps I put out last weekend. The third trap is mounted on the barn down the gravel road. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JMrMdZWetw
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Post by Mack Apiary Bees on Apr 6, 2021 7:16:26 GMT -5
Yesterday I grafted 30 honeybee eggs/larvae into specially designed cups to make queens. I take a hive and put a queen excluder between the two bee brood boxes. This forces the queen in the bottom box, but the other worker bees can pass through the excluder. I wait 5 days and in the upper box all the larvae get to old to be make into queens. After 5 days I put a special board between the two boxes and now the top box has no queen and no eggs/larvae to make an emergency queen. I then take a frame of eggs/larvae out of my best hive and graft 30 eggs/larvae out of the frame comb into a special grafting frame with 30 cups. Each cup gets one egg/larvae. On third day the egg hatches to a larvae. I graft at that day. Just after the egg hatches. I then put the graft frame into the queen less hive. Now the queen less hive has 30 larvae to make queen cells. If I grafted correctly I'll get around 25 queens. I'm not the best at it yet and hoping to get 15 or better. I will know by Sunday the 11th. The larvae are very small and getting it out and putting into a grafting cup is not easy without damaging or drowning the larvae in the royal jelly (larvae food). Flipping it over drowns the larvae. So I try to slide under the larvae, lift out and release the larvae in the new cup. Size of the larvae is about 1.5 to 2mm.
PS: When a queen lays an egg it hatches on the 3rd day into a larvae. Each comb on a frame is cocoon. Queen emerges from the cocoon on the 16th to 17th day. Similar to a butterfly.
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Post by saltydog on Apr 7, 2021 5:10:36 GMT -5
Interesting ! what makes them queen larvae or what makes them a queen ?
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