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Title: A pot of gold?
Post by: Intheswamp on August 04, 2012, 07:06:05 pm
(http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n153/intheswamp00/Honey%20Bees/RainbowMedium.jpg)
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Post by: AllenF on August 04, 2012, 07:31:16 pm
How about a soon to be bucket of gold?   Great pic.   :)
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Post by: David McLeod on August 04, 2012, 08:17:13 pm
Pure liquid gold.
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Post by: annette on August 04, 2012, 08:26:00 pm
That is beautiful!!
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Post by: Joe D on August 10, 2012, 11:57:36 pm
Nice pic swamp



Joe
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Post by: Intheswamp on August 11, 2012, 12:03:51 am
Thanks, ya'll.
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Post by: JP on August 11, 2012, 09:18:27 am
The set up closest to us looks like three eight framers atop a ten framer. Is that correct or am I seeing things?


...JP
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Post by: Hemlock on August 11, 2012, 10:59:35 am
"...Where the skies are so blue...

Man, sometimes i really miss Alabama.  Great picture.  Thanks
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Post by: Intheswamp on August 20, 2012, 09:51:25 am
JP, your eyes are ok...that's a 10-frame deep under those 8-frame mediums.  When I bought the colony it came in the 10-frame deep.  My goal is to end up with all 8-frame mediums...still gotta figure out how to do this. :)  I'm hoping that come spring the bees will have moved up and out of the lower box.  Otherwise I'll find the queen and move her up in an 8-frame box and put an excluder beneath her and let the brood below finish out.  Newbee mind is kinda stretched thin on this one.  I hope Schawee is still improving!

Hemlock....only "sometimes"? <grin>  Glad you liked the picture.

Ed
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Post by: BlueBee on August 25, 2012, 09:56:38 am
Nice work and Gold’s north of $1600 an ounce again.

It’s always a hope the bees will move off comb the bee keeper wants to replace, but I think there is an axiom that the bees will do just the opposite of what the bee keeper wants them to do.  Last winter my bees mostly stayed in the bottom box (and I’m in Michigan).  We did have a mild winter though. 
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Post by: Intheswamp on August 25, 2012, 11:27:11 am
Thanks, BlueBee.

Yeah, I'm probably going to have to put the queen in an upper box and an excluder between her and the bottom box.  I want to get rid of that 10-frame deep so I can get my modified bottom boards and oil trays under it.  This has been my strong hive so apparently *they* are doing something right...(I'm not gonna say anything about this beek's abilities!)

Ed
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Post by: Lazy W on September 14, 2012, 11:26:31 pm
Ed, That's one cool pic. I do like it.
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Post by: Intheswamp on September 15, 2012, 01:35:42 am
Glad you liked it, Lazy.  It was a nice afternoon that day and even managed to get the grass cut. ;)  Well, maybe not between the hives, but....  :laugh: