Expanding Your Apiary Part 2, Q & A

Questions and answers segment of Expanding Your Apiary. Part 2 of 2.

[lynnhughes]

There will never BEE another Bob Bennie !!! …can’t wait to see you again ..Brooke says hello from south east Alabama !!!!

[aileensmith]

Always good and hearing a voice of experience!

[aaronparis]

Carnies mutts are great and your right I find my Italians don’t grown good in Canada carnies are great

[sunduck]

Bob,

How important is the elevation component to Sourwood Production? I have heard you mention that Sourwood does not produce well unless at higher elevations. Can you remind me what elevations you prefer? I am in Gilmer County, in Ellijay. I have Sourwood as well but last year my bees did not seem to be on it. They stayed on the Dutch clover even during the Sourwood Flow. But some local Bee keepers say they will pass up everything else if the Sourwood is producing. Not sure if it was elevation or just a bad flow.

[aaronparis]

Carnies are good in Canada snow and cold

[benjamindejonge]

I love to have carnis, but officially I’m stuck with Apis melifera iberiensis by law, so I’m just soldering on

[andrewmelton]

Will bees build and cap a queen cell with a unfertilized egg/larva inside?

[TheFamilyFarmHomestead]

I do have a question, two-part, do you use different size holes for feeding 1 sugar - 1.5 water, 1 sugar - 1 water, or 2 sugar - 1 water. What size holes do you use?

[brianwho]

Where does one find good Caucasian queens? I did a google search and not much of anything.

[blackberry]

When a laying worker lays drones in worker frames do these frames become drone frames forever ?

[filipvernica]

Question this time you’re recommending too treat for varroa beside oxalic acid? I have quick strips or Apiguard

[eueut]

I have a question: is anyone successful overwinter banked mated queen?