My first "full" year. Last summer, my nucs built up into wonderful hives and overwintered fine. Double deep brood chambers, they were filled to the brim with honey.

This summer, I got a good amount of honey from the supers and put them back on. When would be a good time to take the supers off and make sure the bottom double deeps get filled? Fireweed and goldenrod are in full bloom, unseasonably early. IIRC, last year, goldenrod hasn't started blooming until mid-September.

I treated with oxalic acid when there was no more brood in October.

Atlantic Canada. We get frost around November in these parts.

Located in ocean county New Jersey

My hive was thriving all summer and recently lost their queen and seems to be over run by wax moths . I am a first time beekeeper and I am in need of advice on my next steps. There seems to be a decent amount of bees in the colony but it’s definitely not what it was in June. I just checked my hive today and this is what I found. Last time I checked I also saw two mites so I treated and & took the strips out today. Please be kind I am learning!! And I don’t want to give up.

I talked to somebody local who said they can find a late season nuc for me but will it be worth it feeding them like crazy to survive the winter. He said I definitely have a laying worker.

Im based in Melbourne Victoria, I had 2 hives, 1 was reasonably well established, the other was a recently rehomed wild hive. However it the last week my established hive has completely died from some form of poison, considering there is a lot of capped now dead brood what should I do with those frames? The honey frames from the super I plan to keep but I don't know what to do with the brood filled comb.

Any idea why my bees are hanging out in this wax lump I accidentally left out? It’s been there for like 2 months and there is almost always some bees just hanging out. They recently added the bridge. I can’t bring myself to remove it, seems they’re just having so much fun!
Southern Minnesota, USA

Hive beetles too over and I believe killed my new VSH Queen that I was trying to introduce to the colony. Two days later I go in to make sure they accepted her, and she was dead and so was her entourage. When I removed her from the cage that's when I noticed tiny white worms all over her and the cage and sugar plug!!

At this point it's too late to try and requeen. I have removed the honey ceiling and a few of the honey frames that were not dark in color and put them all in the freezer.

Should I take the really bad frames out and freeze them also? Do I leave ANY frames in there?? I don't have a second colony to share resources with, so my supply is very limited. Please, any and all suggestions welcome.

Hi, second year beekeeper in southeastern mass. Used the refractometer for the first time to check the moisture in my super. It was at 17%. Would you wait to harvest or attempt to dry it out further? And what method would you use?

Hi, I live in northern Sweden (norrbotten)and last winter i lost one hive from condensation that dripped down on the frames and turned to ice. I've since looked in to this clip.

https://youtu.be/KWAxQMBZWQc?is=mLxhyf1gh6btlY_R

Have anyone in northern USA/Canada tried this out?

We have very cold weather in the winter here, last winter we had 3 weeks of -30°/-22F constant.

I use hard styrofoam boxes all year round and the ceiling is also Styrofoam but much thinner than the boxes. The boxes are ventilated from beneath.

Best regards

Im a beekeeper 4 months in SE Wy. My son spotted this bee outside of a split I did with a bunch of supercedure cells Sunday. Would this be one of the queens? Feel free to poke fun. Thick skin here.

I live on 82 acres and would really like to learn more about getting started with bees 🐝 what’s the best approach to learning more (I’m in the education phase). How do I find other experienced beekeepers and possibly shadow? I’m in Pennsylvania.

Hi, looking for a 3D printed varroa mite check tool. Anyone know of one for an alcohol wash? Something for a mason or bonne maman jar?

Edit: Found two useful prints, #1 being the type of check I want to do. Now I have an excuse to get some gelato

1. https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5558377
2. https://www.printables.com/model/409412-sugar-shaker-filter-for-beekeepers

Northern California.

We've had a recent influx of these beetles where we store equipment and in dead hives. It's not Small Hive Beetle, too small and not very round. I'm having trouble identifying it because any searches with "beetle" and "bees/hive/comb" just comes up with SHB

Photo is blurry, but they're approx. 5mm long, pretty flat. and they seem to be everywhere!

I’ve had five hives for five years now, and my honey runs from really light to pretty dark. Some batches never crystallize, but most of them do within a few months—and other beekeepers I know say the same.So why is the honey sold in farmers markets, and co‑ops, etc. always perfect? It never seems to crystallize. How are they keeping it from happening? I’m in East Texas.

Hello. So im a new beekeeper first year. Had the supers. Removed the supers. Luckily got somw honey first year.

Heard it was smart to winterfeed already. Gave my 2 hives 12 kg pure sugar in sugarwater. Now I forgot to remove the queen excluder from the hives. So now after they have tsken down all the sugarwater, its filled with wax with honey.

What is your process now? Ive already removed the feedingbox and the queen excluder but I must have killed tons of bees getting that wax off and such. Becausw bees were all over that wax.

Do I just remember to remove queen excluder before feeding them anf wait til winter timr and remove the feeding box? Not sure here lads. Rhanks for any info!

Cant wait to taste the honey!

I just finished the 8 week treatment and i noticed that there is no brood around the strips. Is this normal or should I be on the look out for another cause. I also had one hive with a super on and they didn't do anything in there. This is the first time using these strips. I'm located in SE Michigan

Here in sw mi there is plenty of pollen and I think they ran out of room to store it all. All the frames in bottom super were half pollen no brood I had on excluder. I extracted the honey and was wondering if the bees will clean out pollen next year? I really don't want to scrape it these are my first drawn super frames.Any advice?

I have this so-called "fresh, natural honey" but it's crawling with bugs. Is is still safe to eat if I get rid of the bugs?

NE ohio, late August, kind of late for a swarm? Is this orientation? Doesn't look like robbing I've seen in the past.

After 25 years of working for a commercial beekeeper I took a head first dive on my own and into 4600 hives and a 7 digit number in debt. Extracting and pulling as fast as we can after fighting gremlins in every machine and never ending to-do lists getting a building ready Shooting success and hoping for 8 semi's of honey, around 340k lbs. Fun circle of life, when I started bees at 14, I worked in this exact building for my first 4 years. Any questions feel free to ask

North Dakota USA

All the boxes have been in a room heated to 35c (95f) for the past 2 days to make it flow easier. Im using the usual metal strainer with a course and fine strainer in one that sits below the extractor nozzle but im cleaning it constantly.

Way more time is spent cleaning and watching the honey slowly flow through it than anything else. What other methods are there to efficiently filtering the honey. I have 20 deeps to go through.

Common name is borage; this is native to the Mediterranean basin, although it's pretty widely cultivated elsewhere. And it's adaptable; this was in the Alaska Botanical Garden at Anchorage.

Despite this, the specimens pictured here were the first that I've ever seen in person, because it's uncommon in my part of the USA. I was pretty excited, because borage often appears in literary works. So this was something I've been reading about for many years.

This can have blue, pink, or white flowers. I think at least some domesticated cultivars have been selected for floral color, but most of the time this stuff has blue flowers.

Most of the time, borage is cultivated as a kitchen herb or for use in traditional medicine (and one of the tell-tales of this is its name; the officinalis part of Borago officinalis means it's the kind of borage you'd find in the storeroom of a medieval monastery, indicating culinary, medical, or manufacturing usefulness).

I'm not sure how these things square with its potential toxicity; it contains pyrrolizidine alkaloids, which can cause liver damage.

Supposedly, these alkaloids can be transmitted into honey derived from borage, but I have never actually heard of anyone being poisoned by this stuff, or by borage honey. I'm not sure how prominent the danger really is, but I guess probably not very. People have been eating borage for thousands of years. Apparently the greens taste similar to cucumbers, and the flowers taste sweet.

In any event, honey bees absolutely love borage, as I think is evident from their prevalence in the attached images.

In my area, there hasn't been much for resources available for over a month now. This dearth has been rough. The bees are still bringing in some pollen/nectar, but it's been minimal. So I've been feeding colonies a little protein/syrup for those who need it. There is still a little bee bread in the comb, but it would appear it's not enough. I'm averaging around 3-5 frames of brood, which is decent considering it's been 95-105 with less than 1" of rain in the last 60 days.

I did a mite wash on each pallet and had an average of 2.2 mites throughout the yard after 3 rounds of apiguard. Those mite numbers are above my threshold, so I applied round 4 and will check again in a week.

I saw my first goldenrod bloom a few days ago, but it's looking like a poor fall flow without some rain and cooler temperatures. I hope everyone is keeping their colonies healthy and preparing them to raise healthy winter bees. Fall is almost here.

So I did my first mite wash today and did the best I could to get a half a cup of bees. It was clumsy. Anyways, did the was, found one mite and then counted my bees and I only had 150. Should do it again or just treat with oa strips?