The Practical Beekeeper Volume II Intermediate Beekeeping Naturally

Volume II Intermediate 259 A System of Beekeeping 261 Decisions, Decisions... 265 Personal Beekeeping Philosophy 266 Locality 269 Lazy Beekeeping 271 Top Entrances 272 Uniform frame size. 274 Lighter boxes 276 Horizontal hives 280 Top Bar Hive 281 Foundationless frames 282 Making foundationless frames 282 No chemicals/no artificial feed 284 Leave honey for winter food 285 Natural cell size 286 Carts 287 Leave the burr comb between boxes 287 Stop cutting out swarm cells 289 Stop fighting your bees 290 Stop wrapping your hive. 290 Stop scraping all the propolis off of everything 291 Stop painting your equipment. 292 Stop switching hive bodies. 293 Don't look for the queen. 294 Don't wait. 295 Feed dry sugar. 296 Split by the box. 296 Stop Requeening. 297 Feeding Bees 298 First, when do you feed? 298 Stimulative feeding. 300 My experiences with stimulative feeding. 302 Down sides to success: 303 Variable outcomes: 304 Dry Sugar: 304 Type of feeder: 305 Second, what do you feed? 305 Pollen 306 Third, how much do you feed? 306 Fourth, how do you feed? 306 Issues when considering the type of feeder: 307 Basic types of feeders 308 Frame feeders 308 Boardman feeder 309 Jar feeder 309 Miller feeder 311 Bottom board feeder 313 Jay Smith Bottom Board Feeder 313 My version 315 Baggie feeder 320 Open feeder 321 Candy board 321 Fondant 321 Dry Sugar 321 What kind of sugar? 325 Pollen 326 Measuring ratios for syrup 326 Weight or Volume? 326 How to measure 327 How to make syrup 327 Moldy syrup 328 Top Entrances 329 Reasons for top entrances 329 How to make top entrances 331 Top Entrance Frequently Asked Questions: 334 Carts 337 Swarm Control 341 Splits 348 Natural Cell Size 356 And its implications to beekeeping and Varroa mites 356 Rationalizations on Small Cell Success 380 Foundationless 385 Narrow Frames 400 FAQs 408 Yearly Cycles 410 Winter 410 Bees 410 Stores 411 Setup for winter 411 Spring 411 Summer 412 Fall 412 Wintering Bees 414 Mouse Guards 414 Queen Excluders 415 Screened bottom boards (SBB) 415 Wrapping 416 Clustering hives together 416 Feeding Bees 416 Insulation 418 Top Entrances 419 Where the cluster is 419 How strong? 419 Entrance reducers 420 Pollen 420 Windbreak 421 Eight frame boxes 421 Medium boxes 421 Narrow frames 422 Wintering Nucs 422 Banking queens 423 Indoor wintering 424 Wintering observation hives 424 Spring Management 425 Tied to climate 425 Feeding Bees 425 Swarm Control 426 Splits 427 Supering 428 Laying Workers 429 Cause 429 Symptoms 429 Solutions 430 Simplest, least trips to the beeyard 430 Shakeout and forget 430 Most successful but more trips to the beeyard 430 Give them open brood 430 Other less successful or more tedious methods 431 More info on laying workers 432 Brood pheromones 432 More than Bees 434 Macro and Microfauna 434 Microflora 434 Pathogens? 435 Upsetting the Balance 435 For More Reading 435 Bee Math 437 Races of Bees 438 Italian 438 Starline 438 Cordovan 438 Caucasian 439 Carniolan 439 Midnite 439 Russian 440 Buckfast 440 German or English native bees 440 LUS 441 Africanized Honey Bees (AHB) 441 Moving Bees 442 Moving hives two feet 442 Moving hives two miles 442 More than 2 feet and less than 2 miles 444 Moving hives 100 yards or less by yourself. 444 Concepts 444 Materials: 446 Method 447 Treatments for Varroa not working 450 A Few Good Queens 452 Simple Queen Rearing for a Hobbyist 452 Labor and Resources 452 Quality of Emergency Queens 452 The experts on emergency queens: 453 Jay Smith: 453 C.C. Miller: 454 Equipment 455 Method: 455 Make sure they are well fed 455 Make them Queenless 455 Make up Mating Nucs 455 Transfer Queen Cells 456 Check for Eggs 456