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- Build It Yourself - Equipment Plans in PDF format
Solid, bee-tight hive equipment is necessary because any secondary openings will be eagerly sought by bees to avoid passing through the pollen trap grid Two pollen trap designs are described
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- sugar brick recipe | Beesource Beekeeping Forums
looking for an easy sugar brick recipe i tried searching the archives but didnt have much luck if i remember there was one that was 5 or 10 lbs of sugar and a small amount of water, put it on a cookie sheet and let it dry
- How do you build a fume board? | Beesource Beekeeping Forums
Speaking as the manufacturer of Bee-Quick, I'd like to point out that fume boards from all vendors are very similar All of them have a metal surface that gets hot in direct contact with a woven cloth that keeps the liquid from dripping onto the frames, bees, and honey The idea here is to maximize heat transfer and vaporize the liquid
- Reducing hive size for winter | Beesource Beekeeping Forums
Does anyone reduce their hives going into winter? 2 deeps to one deep or 3 deeps to 2 deeps? Last year I left all the deeps on, and reversed in the early spring I saw photos of a beekeeper in Finland who crams all his bees into 1 deep, to overwinter
- Bleach in Feed???? | Beesource Beekeeping Forums
In another thread it was brought up that large commercial operators add bleach to their syrup Makes sense if the concentration is low enough Can anyone verify this??? If so the rate of 1 gal to 500 gal was mentioned Is this a good rate?? 1 ounce to 4 17 gallons
- Michael Palmer nuc plans. | Beesource Beekeeping Forums
When making the divider board, cut leave tabs to sit on frame rest of super to block bee passage Also make the divider board full height of super plus space between super and bottom board 3 8 plywood makes a solid divider board
- IRS Clasification - Beesource Beekeeping Forums
What do you classify your bee keeping as? For IRS taxes is it agg other is it agg Are we farmers? Or are bee's live stock What do you use for your classifications? My CPA does not know what to file under
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