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MikeWaters · 05-14-2008, 07:52 PM

I went to possible harvest honey from my hive, and found that my hive ate all the honey. Where all the honey was, baby bees are.

Well, at the least the hive is bigger and stronger. Maybe I can get some honey in the fall.

SeattleUte · 05-20-2008, 04:55 AM

So is there kind of a bees starter kit suitable for urban environs?

creekster · 05-20-2008, 05:17 AM

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Originally Posted by SeattleUte

So is there kind of a bees starter kit suitable for urban environs?

You want to set up a little surprise for the home teachers again?

SeattleUte · 05-20-2008, 05:21 AM

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Originally Posted by creekster

You want to set up a little surprise for the home teachers again?

I've said before this is a cool hobby.

MikeWaters · 05-20-2008, 12:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SeattleUte

So is there kind of a bees starter kit suitable for urban environs?

yes.

SeattleUte · 05-20-2008, 12:44 PM

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Originally Posted by MikeWaters

yes.

Link?

MikeWaters · 05-20-2008, 12:57 PM

something like this:
http://go.netgrab.com/secure/kelleys...sp?product=248

you would need to buy your bees separately.

http://www.westsoundbees.org/
http://www.pugetsoundbees.org/
http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/cls/625196703.html

I would contact a club about buying what they call a "nuc". A small hive. It's probably too late to start from a package of bees.

SeattleUte · 05-20-2008, 03:07 PM

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Originally Posted by MikeWaters

something like this:
http://go.netgrab.com/secure/kelleys...sp?product=248

you would need to buy your bees separately.

http://www.westsoundbees.org/
http://www.pugetsoundbees.org/
http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/cls/625196703.html

I would contact a club about buying what they call a "nuc". A small hive. It's probably too late to start from a package of bees.

Thx.

MikeWaters · 05-27-2008, 02:59 PM

My dad got me a queen excluder for my top medium super. This only lets the worker bees in, and not the queen, so that the queen can't lay eggs and create baby bees, but the worker bees can make comb and honey.

If I am able to harvest an entire medium super eventually, that would be somewhere in the region of 2.5 gallons of honey.

MikeWaters · 06-02-2008, 04:38 PM

The bees have gone a long ways towards filling up that medium super with honey. I will get honey yet, and now I am worried that I need another super delivered to give the hive more room.

Also I put in a small hive beetle trap with vegetable oil and banana. Hope I catch some of those fiends.

05-20-2008, 04:55 AM	#12
SeattleUte fairlds.org Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Seattle, WA Posts: 10,665	So is there kind of a bees starter kit suitable for urban environs? __________________ Interrupt all you like. We're involved in a complicated story here, and not everything is quite what it seems to be. —Paul Auster

05-14-2008, 07:52 PM	#11
MikeWaters Demiurge Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 36,365	I went to possible harvest honey from my hive, and found that my hive ate all the honey. Where all the honey was, baby bees are. Well, at the least the hive is bigger and stronger. Maybe I can get some honey in the fall.

05-20-2008, 12:57 PM	#17
MikeWaters Demiurge Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 36,365	something like this: http://go.netgrab.com/secure/kelleys...sp?product=248 you would need to buy your bees separately. http://www.westsoundbees.org/ http://www.pugetsoundbees.org/ http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/cls/625196703.html I would contact a club about buying what they call a "nuc". A small hive. It's probably too late to start from a package of bees.

05-27-2008, 02:59 PM	#19
MikeWaters Demiurge Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 36,365	My dad got me a queen excluder for my top medium super. This only lets the worker bees in, and not the queen, so that the queen can't lay eggs and create baby bees, but the worker bees can make comb and honey. If I am able to harvest an entire medium super eventually, that would be somewhere in the region of 2.5 gallons of honey.

06-02-2008, 04:38 PM	#20
MikeWaters Demiurge Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 36,365	The bees have gone a long ways towards filling up that medium super with honey. I will get honey yet, and now I am worried that I need another super delivered to give the hive more room. Also I put in a small hive beetle trap with vegetable oil and banana. Hope I catch some of those fiends.