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Beekeeping => General Beekeeping => Topic started by: Jen on March 13, 2015, 12:10:22 am
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Hubby batted out 6 meds supers for me today, had to veil him up to combat the hot bees. What a nice guy ;D
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Isnt that considered ABUSE in some states? Taking a man away from his Honey do list because of another honey do project? Well.. I think he might have a good case if he called the Attorney General and the Better Business Bureau! :yes:
;D Looking forward to seeing the finished product!
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Hahaha! This time of year it's a pretty good size Honey do list. But I let him wander off of the property to go fishing and wood cutting as often as he wants. Then May - Sept he works for the United States Forest Service for 6 months. I never bother him during those months. Both work and home work are all outdoors where he wants to be. I plenty okay with that :)
Been thinking about maybe painting the honey supers a little different... this could be very cool ;D
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How far was he working from the hot hive? You mean you can't really go out in the yard without them getting after you?
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Go around that corner of the garage and fifty more feet. A couple of days ago I was standing in the back yard near the back of the garage, a bee came around the corner, butt first, at about 50 miles an hours and nailed my cheek. Geeeez!
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dang... Thankfully I have more hives than you do, so its EASY for me to fix bees that aggressive with a gallon of gasoline and a lighter
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I wouldn't be opposed that, but I'm going to pull a nuc tomorrow, and see if things settle down.
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Yeah, Jen. I thnk if you make a nuc or two from this one hive and let them re-queen themselves, you are likely to have 3 mean hives and not just one. I'm thinking that you ought to get you a new queen for this mother of a mother hive.
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just my HO, but there is no need to light up a hive with a gallon of gasoline. maybe, if you had an AHB problem, might be different.
re-queening is the best course of action, not sure i would let them requeen themselves.
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Hi Riv :) That's what I really want to do. but I'll have to wait till the end of May to purchase a mated queen.
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Are your other hives in a situation where you could have one of them raise a new queen in a nuc? That might get you a queen faster.
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Hmmmm. makin' me think.
My mother hive is stuffed with bees, really good queen. I have it set up now for honey making. I think it will do well, so I don't want to tamper with that one.
My middle hive ies only a deep and medium, a little slower to come around this spring.
Then I have the hot hive.
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Why not give this hive a frame of eggs and let them raise a queen? I see no reason NOT to let them raise a new queen, provided you make them do it with eggs from a queen YOU like, and not their original queen.
Axe old queen... wait 4 to 5 days, go through each frame carefully and remove ALL Q Cells. Then swap out one of their frames with a frame of eggs from a good hive..
I am assuming you have drones there? Were only a few days away from emerging drones here, so you should have them there.
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Scott, I'll answer this in my Hot Hive post :)
Hot Hive! (http://www.worldwidebeekeeping.com/forum/index.php/topic,3460.msg51251.html#msg51251)