"Actually I have! My son lives in Rio Rancho and has prickly pears in his yard. The bees seem to like walking around the pear while it's sweating or diving into a split on the skin and I believe that is where they pick up the color."
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Red honey
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Hi all,One of our two hives has found a nectar source that results in red honey. I'm fairly certain there are no maraschino cherry factories in the East Mtns. I'm told that someone at a Beeks meeting…Continue
Started this discussion. Last reply by Wm. Epps Oct 15, 2012.
combine a swarm with weak hive
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One posting touched on this question, but I'm curious about other thoughts. We have a weak hive, most like a laying worker (we have been unable to locate a queen the last couple times we checked).…Continue
Started this discussion. Last reply by Seah Johnson + Josh Phillips Aug 31, 2012.
Swarm in East Mountains
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Hi Beeks,It looks like a new swarm is in our neighborhood and we are wondering if anyone wants to grab it. We don't have the resources to get it at this time. The neighborhood is Tablazon, which is…Continue
Started this discussion. Last reply by Wm. Epps Aug 31, 2012.
Top bar spacing for a rocking' hive
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Hi Beeks,I have a question about management of our Top bar hives now that it is late summer. We are first-year beekeepers and have 2 hives. One is puttering along (we think they superceded the queen…Continue
Started this discussion. Last reply by Janna Mintz Jul 30, 2012.
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Dave Ellis replied to Lisa Moss's discussion Red honey
"I had heard that Bees CAN get into the "Tuna's".. but have not had the pleasure of seeing it for myself.. Have You seen that bee-havior??? "
Mike Fickling replied to Lisa Moss's discussion Red honey
"I had the same red color but alot more of it.
I harvested and the honey came out just alittle darker than usual but very good tasting.
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Wm. Epps replied to Lisa Moss's discussion Red honey
"Another possible source could be prickly pears!?"
Randy S. replied to Lisa Moss's discussion Red honey
"One possibility could be a hummingbird feeder. If it is from a plant then I have no idea. The photos are from one of my hives a few years ago, green and red honey. I thought that maybe it came from a melted Popsicle, melted slushy…"
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Red honey
Hi all,One of our two hives has found a nectar source that results in red honey. I'm fairly certain there are no maraschino cherry factories in the East Mtns. I'm told that someone at a Beeks meeting recently had the same question. Any thoughts about what may be the cause? We have been hesitant to harvest it for ourselves because the color is just so out of the ordinary.Thanks!LisaSee More
Seah Johnson + Josh Phillips replied to Lisa Moss's discussion combine a swarm with weak hive
"Hi--
I'm not sure how it works for top bar (we're all Lang)- but we use the newspaper trick all the time and it works like a charm.
I think we combined swarms into weaker hives 5 or 6 times last year.
Good luck!"
Wm. Epps replied to Lisa Moss's discussion combine a swarm with weak hive
"I answered your other post before seeing this. If you have a weak hive and no queen, by all means combine the two. It takes the stress out of trying to start a "new" hive with limited resources and you are almost 100% certain that the…"
Wm. Epps replied to Lisa Moss's discussion Swarm in East Mountains
"That's exactly what you do with swarms, put them in full size hives. Do you have honey, pollen, and extra brood that you can use to get the new hive started?. It would be the same as if this was a divide that you created! It's good that…"
Lisa Moss replied to Lisa Moss's discussion Swarm in East Mountains
"Swarm is temporarily handled. We got it out of the tree and into a small hive/swarm box (the neighbors were so stoked to participate and excited about the possibility of bees next door!). Now we have to figure out what to do with it.…"
Janna Mintz replied to Lisa Moss's discussion Top bar spacing for a rocking' hive
"Did you give any brood to the weak hive? I would give them some capped brood with nurse bees to give them some extra help. Make sure you don't give them your healthy, laying queen. Keep all the brood together in each hive to make it…"
Lisa Moss posted a discussion
Top bar spacing for a rocking' hive
Hi Beeks,I have a question about management of our Top bar hives now that it is late summer. We are first-year beekeepers and have 2 hives. One is puttering along (we think they superceded the queen and are now trying to get back in to it...saw some capped worker brood today which was encouraging, but not much of it). The other is filled with rock stars. They are doing great and are very gentle.Today we checked the rock stars and they had comb all the way to the back of the hive with several…See More
Buckner Creel replied to Lisa Moss's discussion Trade a divide for some mentoring/expertise on making divides
"Lisa,
As a comment, unless you start to see royal jelly (sitting on top of a hidden queen egg/larva) in the queen cups, don't assume the hive's going to swarm. Our hives have made queen cups just to have them. (Thanks for the…"
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Trade a divide for some mentoring/expertise on making divides
Hi all, We are first-year beeks, using top bar hives in the East Mtn area. We have one hive that is looking ready to swarm. They were a package from BeeWeaver, hived in mid-April. Our other hive is not as robust. Today (5/27) we tried some measures to slow the swarm process (took out 3 bars of brood and honey to give to the other hive and added empty bars). However, there were queen cups and it sounds like a swarm may be inevitable. We are wondering if there is a more experienced…See More
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