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Bee Hive Frames and Foundation
Compare bee foundation plastic vs wax and learn about bee hive frames and foundations to find the best fit for your hive.
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Save Time Building Frames Using a Jig
Winter is the time for a beekeeper to prepare for spring! Now is the perfect time to get a jump start on springtime preparations by building equipment like frames.
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What Does a Caught Swarm Need to Thrive?
Because the workers are already racing against time, it is highly unlikely the swarm will leave. Once you see combs being built, odds are they will stay.
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How to Add Wax Foundation to An Assembled Frame
Today we’ll demonstrate how to add wax foundation to an assembled frame. Although the process is fairly simple, it’s easy to get tripped up without the basic steps.
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Can I Feed Frames of Honey Back to My Colony?
I live in the NC Piedmont. I prepared my hives for winter last Sunday by removing the top supers and adding a quilt frame and a candy board. These are two first-year hives. The honey was not capped last month. This month it’s all capped including eight full frames in the supers and four that are about half full.
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Why Did My Bees Remove the Frame Foundation?
The bees simply bite off a chunk of wax, mix it with their own saliva, chew it into the right consistency, and then build new comb with it somewhere else in the hive. If later in the season they want to use the frames they borrowed from, they will repair the entire thing such that you can barely see what they did.
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Uncapped Honey in the Super?
Uncapped honey in your supers? Learn what you need to watch for to identify why it’s uncapped and what you can do to help the honey bee capping process.
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How do I Configure My Top Bar Hive?
If your top bar hive opens on the side (cold-way configuration, like a Langstroth), putting the empty brood frames right in the center will work fine.
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Should I be Worried About my Walkaway Split?
There are a couple of versions of a split (or divide) that simulate this. One is by using swarm cells in the split(s). The other, which it sounds like is what you did, we call a “walkaway split.” I just did one yesterday so I’ll explain how I did it.
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What are the Pros and Cons of Using Nine Frames vs 10 Frames?
What are the pros and cons of using nine frames in the brood boxes? If one wished go from nine frames to 10 frames, how should it be done?
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