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Wow - what a day! Just seeing this, didn't get my email post alert... What's the status on your reaction today? :\

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They move up consuming honey over winter, but this time of the season they want to thicken the honey band and push the broodnest down to slow the queen's laying. Plus they like to build comb down. Put it under, and by fall the medium will be full of honey and the broodnest will be in the deep...

Since they are already compromised, I would start them in the super, that wax is just what she needs. In six weeks you could put the deep on under it (Warre style) and let them work down into that.

I just hope your queen is good to go. She can pull it off with only 1lb of bees...

of what need to hate auto correct!

I know! :D =D Just wanted to give you a heads up off what to expect. There will be dead ones. They can still rock and roll with 2 lbs of bees, you just need the get them out so they can do their thing.

Can you track them? Are they USPS? If so, give your office a heads up to call you as soon as they come in, so you can pick them up. Take a spray bottle of 1:1 so you can give them a shot of food... the holes in the syrup can are tiny, to keep travel vibrations from making a mess.

Wow, that's a long haul... you'll want to get them out and in their box ASAP. There will be dead ones on the bottom. Don't panic. Get them 1:1 syrup at once.

4lb sugar, 1/2gal water... they'll figure out what to do with it. Tightly rolled up newspaper will work for temporary... leave them a 1" opening.

This week I have grasped two queens off the comb and marked them while I held them! :th The one handed queen catcher thingy works well, too. I hear you on the marking issue... with all the swarms, my record keeping is starting to get messy. My goal is to head into winter with all 2016 queens...

Randy's page is definitely a wealth of information! I also like Michael Bush's pages, and I have The Practical Beekeeper.

I caught two swarms today! The first swarm's queen got away from me right after I marked her... it didn't occur to me that she could actually FLY. :he ungrateful hussy. Then a second swarm issued and I chased them to the woods. Caught and marked this queen and kept her in the marking cup. I was...

The bees like to be able to control everything HVAC related... they cool a hot hive by bringing water to the combs and fanning it off. This is how screen bottomed hives can mess them up in heat extremes, likewise opening a hive up when the temp is near 100° or above. They lose control and the...

Hi soar! The power of a nuc is in the fact that bees thrive in a space that they can control the heat, ventilation, and humidity. If the ambient satisfies these factors, then all size boxes will work no matter how many bees are in them. But if they only fill, say, a quarter of the space, then...

:oops: Oy Stobbit! :hu

Twice now I've been able to just sit beside the swarm and watch it, and see the queen when she surfaces. She swims through the whole cluster mass like a porpoise and that's how they know she's still with them instead of her holding still and them transferring the smell. The first time I scooped...

If 3-4lbs of bees are in the air, you can hear them from 40-50 yards away. If they've already gathered at the resting spot, you just have to be tuned in to unusual bee activity to pick them out.The drones go with them, and that's the giveaway to me. The cluster clusters, and the boys buzz about...

@Latestarter the one I gave to my bee buddy took to the Warre dead out immediately. They were hauling out dead bees from the old comb within the hour. Of the four swarms I've caught so far, one was either feral or of my neighbors hives, the other three were mine. One was from a langstroth the...

Still can't catch my breath... #5!