Any beekeepers out there?

[Yzzim]

The hive swarmed because you possibly did not add space as they grew.
Strong hives will use 4-5 full supers; 3 will be for excess honey storage.

One should place a retainer above the second full super to allow the workers in but keep the queen out.

As super #4 starts to fill with honey, #3 can be removed and an empty super placed on the stack.


Note: An empty super is one with all the frames having a wax insert but not cells. the bees will follow the pattern of the insert to build up the cells and deposit the honey inside.

I expanded the hive 2 days before they swarmed. They made up their mind before I added the super.

Not knowing anything, I thought they would only swarm if there were two queens in the hive (since I had just expanded). So I then went through looking for a queen, thought I might have seen one, and killed every queen cell I saw. Needless to say, I was without a queen for 3 weeks. I had to take a frame out of my buddy's hive that had fresh eggs and put it into mine. Luckily, I still had enough worker bees left to make another queen.

My hive looked pretty sparse there for a while. I felt lucky to get as much honey as I did at the end of the season.

 

[AreaCode707]

I've probably spent a cumulative total of 5 to 10 hours just standing next to one of the entrances to the bee hive. I've been stung a grand total of once, while mowing about 15 feet away, and I'm not 100% sure it was a honeybee rather than a ground wasp or something.

My father in law had six hives in a suburban neighborhood and never had a problem. I took a nap about five feet from the hives once and the bees didn't bother me a whit.

 

[EagleKeeper]

The hive swarmed because you possibly did not add space as they grew.
Strong hives will use 4-5 full supers; 3 will be for excess honey storage.

One should place a retainer above the second full super to allow the workers in but keep the queen out.

As super #4 starts to fill with honey, #3 can be removed and an empty super placed on the stack.


Note: An empty super is one with all the frames having a wax insert but not cells. the bees will follow the pattern of the insert to build up the cells and deposit the honey inside.

I expanded the hive 2 days before they swarmed. They made up their mind before I added the super.

Not knowing anything, I thought they would only swarm if there were two queens in the hive (since I had just expanded). So I then went through looking for a queen, thought I might have seen one, and killed every queen cell I saw. Needless to say, I was without a queen for 3 weeks. I had to take a frame out of my buddy's hive that had fresh eggs and put it into mine. Luckily, I still had enough worker bees left to make another queen.

My hive looked pretty sparse there for a while. I felt lucky to get as much honey as I did at the end of the season.

Once the second queen had matured, the swarm was committed.

One can keep a hive with two queens if the queens are kept seperated.

Sometimes that is the best way to get two weak hives through the winter.

 

[Lamont Burns]

Glenn Beck

 

[EagleKeeper]

I've probably spent a cumulative total of 5 to 10 hours just standing next to one of the entrances to the bee hive. I've been stung a grand total of once, while mowing about 15 feet away, and I'm not 100% sure it was a honeybee rather than a ground wasp or something.

My father in law had six hives in a suburban neighborhood and never had a problem. I took a nap about five feet from the hives once and the bees didn't bother me a whit.

Normal European honey bees are docile and will not attack unless they feel that the hive is threatened or another sister.

They do not care a darn about the boys - worthless honey grubbing gigalos.
Loafing around just to get their nuts off on a pretty young virgin thing.


Sounds like some of our species today

 

[slag]

I think those policies are to compensate for commercial loss, not bee stings from neighbors, or silly stuff like that.

People are irrational idiots, and some add greed on top of that. Honey bees are extremely docile, and I wouldn't have any qualms about being near a hive, even if I were highly allergic(I'm not). What /I/ would do is put up a hive, and not say a thing to anyone. I don't necessarily recommend that approach, but that's what I would do :^)

My neighbor had bees living in the wall of his house. They loved to fly over to our hot tub and get into the cracks and crevasses of the cover to where they could get to the water. Then they couldnt get out. We'd open the cover and find a lot of dead bees in there. Finally, in desperation, I sprayed DEET around the openings and for a few nights, put out citronella candles. That did the trick and the bees stayed away the rest of the year.