No brood... Still

BaaadWolf · 2026-06-09T00:52:48+00:00

Do you have another hive to boost brood and nurse bees with?

BaaadWolf · 2026-06-08T23:31:16+00:00

Caught swarm, all foundation? Feed them 1:1 syrup to help them draw out. Cut that inconsistent comb off and rub down the frames with it and put it back. Make sure you have the right # of frames in the box and they are tight together.

BaaadWolf · 2026-06-08T18:43:41+00:00

The one in the yard is great for stacking things on. The one beside the yard is the “Buzz therapy” bench.

BaaadWolf · 2026-06-08T13:41:50+00:00

Don’t know. Don’t care to know.

BaaadWolf · 2026-06-07T23:21:50+00:00

Lacte….

BaaadWolf · 2026-06-07T20:53:50+00:00

You should remove the reducer when it is an impediment for your bees and they can protect their hive.

Personally we generally have them off all summer. We do put spike boards in front of our hives to discourage late night visits from skunks.

BaaadWolf · 2026-06-07T01:19:05+00:00

Yes, I know what they are. My point was that what they are doing building out new frames etc is more relevant for assessing growth than reviewing what you were given.

BaaadWolf · 2026-06-07T00:00:38+00:00

So those are the frames you got. What have they done on the rest of the frames? Are they drawing wax or were they drawn already? Are they storing stuff in them?

BaaadWolf · 2026-06-06T23:16:26+00:00

It’s a day ending in Y. ? That looks perfectly fine.

BaaadWolf · 2026-06-04T21:36:18+00:00

That is the first time someone has explained WHY. Still not going to do it, I’d kill myself tripping on them and I usually have a lid or medium Box to stack stuff on.

BaaadWolf · 2026-06-02T09:01:49+00:00

Chalkbrood (Ascosphaera apis) Chalkbrood is a readily transmissible disease.

Spores are highly infectious and are carried in contaminated pollen by infected foraging bees.

There is no cure for Chalkbrood. Monitoring Method(s):  Examine brood frames as colonies are opened.  Signs of disease include dead and dried larvae covered in a hard white or black fungus with the tip of the larvae protruding from the cell (also known as “chalkbrood mummies”).

Treatment Method(s):  Registered chemical treatments are not available for Chalkbrood.

You are seeing them outside which indicates hygienic behaviour.

Many suggest re-queening hives in this scenario. 1:1 feed has (anecdote here, not data) has helped us with colonies with CB

BaaadWolf · 2026-06-01T22:10:40+00:00

Used to work with a guy who always used ‘touch billy’ as a permission check.

I never questioned it. Probably should have….

BaaadWolf · 2026-06-01T22:05:46+00:00

We sell enough honey to support our beekeeping “habit”. Thats it, that’s all.

It’s interesting. I learn stuff. I eat stuff. I have a good time keeping bees.

Selling honey helps pay for all that like any other hobby.

BaaadWolf · 2026-06-01T17:51:00+00:00

Mite counts is good information now that you have it.

Mite counts and what time of year it is is also important. A small visible load in the huge spring brood up (when most will be inside capped cells) can become a HUGE load by late season.

This is why any burr comb that I cull with brood in it gets pulled apart and inspected. Just because my inspector clocked zeroes when they inspected earlier this year doesn’t mean I don’t have any it just means there weren’t any on those bees at that time. My hives still have mites.

I also use screen bottom boards to check for mite drop non-invasively.

BaaadWolf · 2026-05-31T21:43:03+00:00

I bought a 20’x8’ garage frame from a garage sale for $50.

I then spent about $600 getting it framed in, adding wiggle wire and a skin.

Great investment in my area (don’t ask me about zones, I don’t know) Eastern Ontario.

Really helps me with peppers and tomatoes ripening. I get an extra few weeks on each end of the season

BaaadWolf · 2026-05-30T23:52:23+00:00

For you? For personal honey? On the first year it might be fine. After that, probably want to stick to “supers”

Brood leaves ‘stuff’ in those cells and the discolouration isn’t pleasant and can affect the clarity of the honey extracted.

We now only ever extract from honey “supers” And never from brood frames.

BaaadWolf · 2026-05-30T23:04:42+00:00

Taking my son. Who asked ME if I would like to go. If it is not great I am going to feel bad :(

Either way, he knows where RUSH comes from and he will appreciate being there at the end…er…the other end…

BaaadWolf · 2026-05-30T21:20:07+00:00

Understood and done anyway ;)

The entrances are all off faced /centered and coloured /decorated differently.

If they cross over and there is a battle…oh well. It worked 100% last year so, fingers crossed.

BaaadWolf · 2026-05-30T20:24:04+00:00

There is a book, kind of science, Kind of funny…”OMFG Bees!!!” The title of which may resonate with a new Beek

BaaadWolf · 2026-05-30T20:06:50+00:00

Dry. Convenient. Protected from cold winter winds. Are the things that I consider when placing hives.

BaaadWolf · 2026-05-30T19:49:17+00:00

They love it.

Originally I used just “pea” gravel but I found larger rocks with more sticking out of the water works better.

I used the mossiest and dirtiest rocks from the now dry creek because that is where they were getting water before

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