berticus

Hi fellow humans. A while back I asked about what I should do with a few tens of dollars I made off of selling r/beekeeping t-shirts. I didn't get much response, but wanted to do something for the community anyways. So: I made up some stickers and pins and will be mailing them out for free in the next few weeks. Here's the form where you can see the goods and sign up:

https://goo.gl/forms/ljYVNVZRND1FkkUm1 FORM CLOSED

I have 50 to send out. As the form states, I'll send these to the first 50 people to sign up, unless the list fills up too fast for our whole rotating globe to get a fair chance. In that case, I'll select 50 at random from the first 24 hours.

If you're not one o

Hey all. I'm in Western New York. I've got a hive that hasn't really built up enough to fill two deeps, and I'd like to try to get them through winter (mostly because it's a VSH queen I actually paid money for). The queen is laying well and they seem generally "fine", they just never really drew out comb in the second deep even though I threw a few frames of brood at them over the course of the summer.

I have an 8 frame nuc I could sacrifice. Is it getting too late to do a newspaper combine? Would it be a problem that both hives are probably about the same strength right now? I would find and squish the queen in the nuc first of course.

Alternately, is there a better way to go about this?

Hey all. I finally just finished some crush and strain extraction of last year's honey. Now I have a stack of sticky supers, and a few other mediums that had been used for hive bodies last year.

What's the best way to get the bees to clean these up? I don't want to set off a robbing spree in the bee yard. I have two hives so far this year, currently busy filling up their second deeps (started from nucs three weeks ago).

My current thought is to just stack one or two at a time on top of their inner covers. Or should I just make a pile a few dozen feet away from the hives?

Hey friends. Between the t-shirts and the stickers, I accidentally made about $100 smackers last month. As previously stated, I have no problem rolling that back into something fun for the sub. I need a plan though. Current ideas:

• buy a bunch of stickers and postage, give them away
• buy some fun equipment and give it away (could be more of a shipping challenge re: international redditors)
• give it to a bee related charity

Any thoughts?

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Hey all. I put a package in a 10 frame medium box about four weeks ago. A few days ago it seemed mostly filled up. All drawn out except one foundationless frame that was mostly drawn. I have been feeding 1:1 sugar syrup through the hole in the inner cover and they've been sucking it down pretty quickly.

I put another medium on top last Friday, and now they've stopped eating almost entirely. It seems they don't want to make the journey up through an empty-ish box to get the syrup. They also don't seem to be drawing anything out up there. The new box has a mix of foundationless frames and wax foundation.

Should I do a little checkerboarding? Or put the new box on the bottom instead? Or just