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Well my new Carnolian queen's bees have started taking over the hive and the difference is HUGE-and great to see. I know I am supposed to be able to breed my own queen but frankly, life is too short and neighbors have limited tolerence for bad tempered bees while I get good at it. Not all of us...

I have finally completed the process of putting my colonies onto larger frames.Hurrah! The old, no longer wanted ,smaller brood frames have some stores of honey on them. Can I harvest this and feed the bees with it? The old frames were not diseased but had been used for brood so a bit on the...

When you do a shook swarm to replace drone laying queen,why do you have to shake the bees off the frames? If you have another box for them to go to,won't they just fly to it with out being shaken to the ground some distance away? wouldn't this reduce the trauma of it all?