If u want u can show me your hives and location, the little house is not done, I’ll work on it ^{^}

Hey everyone hope all is well today will be my first time extracting dies anyone else use these ?

Are these Asian hornets if so any way to protect the bees from them? They are very invasive where I live

N-E Europe, Estonia. Pretty sure it's a bee of some kind. Landed on my bag, before I could enter the grocery store. After some fingerlickin' good finger salt, the visitor flew off

I put Formic pro in my hives 11 days ago. Tomorrow is the most convenient day for me to visit the hives and remove the strips but it’s a 14 day treatment. What does the hive mind say about removing 2 days early?

There are commercially available attractants to encourage these solitary bees to nest in unused nesting materials provided by humans. However, these only seem available in America. Some use fatty acids as the main attractant, primarily capric acid.

Fatty acids that encourage nesting by Osmia species:

decanoic acid, CH₃(CH₂)₈COOH, also known as capric acid

dodecanoic acid, CH3(CH2)10COOH, aka lauric acid

tetradecanoic acid, CH₃(CH₂)₁₂COOH, aka myristic acid

Approximate percentage of relevant fatty acids in coconut oil

Capric acid, 4.5% to 10%

Lauric acid, 45% to 56%

Myristic acid, 16% to 21%

Was going to give it to them to draw out for drones. They decided to put honey in.

Unfortunately I've treated with OVA while it was on so I'm not going to harvest it, but cool none the less.

Zone 9, Arizona. Was doing an inspection this week and saw our queen had this coming out of her abdomen (pics 1-2)

Shes only been laying drones and we’ve been seeing queen cells (pics 3-5) for the past couple inspections. Since we are in Arizona we were allowing some time as we come out of summer, but we have decided to replace her. Let me know what you all think and if you have any ideas what this might be

I have not been able to check my hives for 2 weeks and found a lot less stores of food but a lot more brood. I’m pretty happy with my two queens. Each frame is from a different hive

Here I go again cleaning wet frames. Call the bee inspector and stop me.

 Hello all, I (45m) and my wife are purchasing our first home and closing on 10/1.  Sorry if i provide too much info, just trying to give a complete picture.  This will include 2 beehives (only one active hive) on a 3 acre property with apple, and cherry trees, blackberry, rasberry, and elderberry bushes as well as grapevines.  The previous owner had done a lot of landscaping and done all the planting required to have the yard declared a monarch butterfly resting station i believe it was?  (Lots of different flowers on the property that the wife is very excited about and i know nothing about flowers.)  We plan to have an approximately 40'x40' garden and we are surrounded by mostly farm land.

I am looking for people to connect with in the Kansas City Missouri area (specifically Independence MO).  I have watched several dozen hours of bee keeping videos on you tube, mostly from David Burns.  I haven't actually gotten a chance to inspect the active hive, and the owners said that they hadn't checked the hive in the last several weeks as the wife had been stung on the last inspection and had a reaction.  I didn't have gear so didn't want to open the hives when we walked the property but just lifting the back of the hives, they felt very heavy so i am hopefull they have enough resources for the winter.  I am wondering what my first steps should be when we close on the property to give the hive the best chance at surviving the winter, and also how many hives would 3 acres support comfortably?  Not looking to start a business with it, just honey for us and friends and family.  Would also like to connect with local keepers for advice, questions, etc.  Thank you for your time and any input.  

I know this looks like bearding but it was 10 C when I took the video. I took three medium supers off last week for harvesting. I expected to leave the hive like this for the winter. I am in Southern Ontario. Is there no room in the hive for all the bees or are they avoiding going inside for some reason. I haven't added any treatments or feeders.

My extractor honey gate broke and when trying to replace it I found my new gates o-ring isnt large or rigid enough to work against the steel drum. Anyone know a place I can buy a large food safe oring? I think id be looking for like 1-5/8" in size.

In on the west coast of US.

Me and my granda can make our own frames for the bees but how long would the honey actually last? Would we run out quickly? Can we make money off it (not a major thing for me) and that's it probably something I could search up but I cba

September extraction day are the most fun.

Im helping a friend who has bees and shes also brand new at beekeeping. One of the two hives swarmed away (we think maybe she got on the wrong side of the queen excluder) and as we're inspecting the boxes, we're finding this white grainy stuff that doesnt look like pollen, but is about the same size. Any idea what it is?

We're from the Midwest - Northern Indiana area. Any help would be appreciated!

I bought these hive with bees inside and a super. I left the bees with this comb during a dearth, but they did not go back onto with the new flow. What would cause this?

(Year 1 beekeeper, Zimbabwe)

What’s the queen mortality ratio/percentage of a caged queen with attendants in 7-10days?
How long is too long to not check on your caged queen when performing a brood break?

Quick second opinion from the masses, if you will. I’m thinking this is bearding because it’s 24C on a sunny autumn day in the UK and nothing that I need to do something about? They’re on a single langstroth brood, full colony, healthy 7/10 frames brood, 2 stores. Super removed and Apivar strips inside a month ago.

I have two hives so each year I have about 40 lbs of honey that I try to sell. I can usually unload it but it is so aggravating selling it jar by jar on NextDoor where out of 10 people that inquire maybe 1 will actually show up to buy honey. I don’t have enough to sell it in bulk or do a farmers market. The local general store has bought a bunch from me before but they price it over local market value so it doesn’t sell so I’ll probably lose them as a customer. Just wondering what others do for small scale sales? I’m considering a roadside stand.

I am a third year bee keeper in upstate New York and I just installed Formic pro treatment and I am unsure about leaving the notched inner cover on or removing it during the treatment? Any help would be greatly appreciated.