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 08/01/2018 04:55 AM
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tom

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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.

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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.
 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.
 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....
 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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Whole new meaning (for me) to "skinnin' it". Ha!

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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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From the owl house move.

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