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08/01/2018 04:55 AM
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Here are my bees being evicted from the owl house (on the ground). They'll be at summer camp for a couple weeks, then home to a new house. Will post back then.
------------------------- add a signature since I'm here in profile anyway Edited: 08/01/2018 at 04:56 AM by tom
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08/02/2018 01:24 PM
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Cool.
I keep two hives in my back yard currently, have components for the third ready for next spring (bottom board and lid are painted pink so the 4 year old granddaughter knows which one is hers). Plan to have 4 total. Extracted 97Lbs (about 8.5 gallons) of honey a few weeks back from the two. |
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08/03/2018 04:46 AM
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^^Nice.^^ I've got recommended as setup, screen bottom, migratory top, one full deep brood box and one super with a queen excluder between. What have you got?
If this works out well, I've got another wild hive that I may rehome. We got about 2.5 qts of honey out of this move; the guys that did the work got a gallon.
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08/03/2018 06:00 PM
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My components are all for 8 frame boxes.
Have screened bottom boards with beetle/mite traps (Freeman beetle trap if you want to google them). Brood box is a 8-frame deep and a 8-frame medium. I use queens excluders between the brood box and the honey super. Honey supers are 8-frame mediums, when they have one just about filled I just put stack another on top (Had 3 medium honey supers on one hive this spring). Have used 8-frame deeps as honey supers, just because I had them, but filled with honey they are heavy, loaded mediums are easier to carry into the house. A loaded 8-frame medium will get about 2 gallons of honey at 11Lbs a gallon (figure 2 medium frames will average 1/2 gallons), so 22lbs for a full 8-frame medium, a deep super is equal to one and a half mediums, so 33Lbs for a 8-frame deep. I use a telescoping cover with a inner cover. |
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08/03/2018 06:25 PM
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Nice setup. No wonder you got that much honey. Post a pic if you've got one.
Planning to keep mine smaller, stealth bees. Haha.
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08/05/2018 02:27 PM
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Thanks for keeping us alive.
Bees go bye-bye, we go bye-bye....
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08/06/2018 05:13 AM
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Buddy of mine gave me this. I think he got it at Mrs. Mango.
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08/13/2018 05:06 AM
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Bees home from "summer camp". Good to have the girls back.
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08/13/2018 05:10 AM
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Whole new meaning (for me) to "skinnin' it". Ha!
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08/13/2018 05:12 AM
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hmm, we don't have the ability to set pic size in the reply options any more?
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08/13/2018 05:31 AM
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also this Sat, Aug 18th Cocoa: http://www.visitspacecoast.com...ee-day-festival/22377/
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08/27/2018 11:47 AM
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The girls have been busy. Frame filled in and capped cells (brood I hope) plentiful.
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08/31/2018 05:53 AM
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Ran into my bee connection Scott last night. He had been trying to do a removal nearby. Bees were so africanized they could not be handled. BEE (sic) CAREFUL OUT THERE!
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08/31/2018 06:05 AM
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From the owl house move.
------------------------- add a signature since I'm here in profile anyway Edited: 08/31/2018 at 06:05 AM by tom
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