Beekeeping Questions and Answers Episode 116 uncapping tools and much more!

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Adam Holmes

1) Do you use starter strips with your foundationless frames? If not what do you do to keep the bees building straight comb? 1:51

 

2) How do you restrict the number hives/bees if you don't want to expand beyond your ability to care for the bees and space allowed? 4:56

 

3) Japanese Beetles are eating all of my pollinator flowers, how do I get rid of them without harming the bees? 8:47

 

4) How do I tell the difference between eggs being laid by a laying worker or a queen that's also just laying drone eggs? 15:54

 

5) When I put a bee escape under my honey super, the super was robbed through the groove in the inner cover. 20:37

 

6) My HOA bylaws are restricting beekeeping. Should I just keep them and not ask, or try to change the rules? 23:41

 

7) When you super a hive with another honey super, do you place it above or below the brood box? 29:50

 

8) If your goal in beekeeping, honey collection, or is it the thrill of the chess game? 32:57

 

9) I have heard lots of beekeepers talk about how important a lot of ventilation is to keep bees from bearding. What are your thoughts? 37:00

 

10) Honey dew is often claimed to be more nutritious than Manuka honey. Should we be planting trees and plants to produce more honey dew? 43:08

 

11) What's the most efficient way to remove wax cappings from honey frames? 49:28

 

12) During a heat wave in our area, there was an accumulated pool of nectar in the drain tube of the flow-frames, how should I get that out without kicking off robbing? 58:03

 

13) I have four and a half built out frames of brood, pollen, nectar and honey. They are not filling out the remaining frames, can I put the super on? 1:01:24

 

14) One of my hives is in trouble, can I start a new queen from eggs? Or should I try buying in a new laying queen? 1:04: 13

 

15) We are planning to plant bee friendly plants, if we put them right next to the hives would we be attracting competition? 1:08:33

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