Beekeepers find honey frames completely bound

“First year beekeeper. I searched through other similar posts, but none of those "white bees" looked quite like mine, so I thought I would ask. Western PA. Picture taken yesterday. I saw this on several bees in two of my three hives. Could it be the pollen that others mentioned? Oct 10th seems a little late for this in my mind. I had done OAV treatments twice in the past 10 days. I thought maybe it was residue from that? Hoping hoping hoping it isn't a sign of sickness, although I k”

“Hey guys, I have been using internal framed feeders. Would it be ok if I removed the feeder from the brood box an replaced it with honey supers for the winter? submitted by /u/mlmka58 [link] [comments]”

“Hi all, there has been this very large bee hive in my yard since May. Does anyone know how to harvest honey comb from it? Virginia submitted by /u/Ordinary_Ticket6558 [link] [comments]”

“1yr keeper. Located in Minnesota. I've got one super with about 4 frames that for the last month the bees never capped. Is there a way to store it without putting it in the freezer so the honey won't go bad? submitted by /u/Syruponmypizza [link] [comments]”

“I don't usually buy beeswax foundation but wanted to try rolling some onto the bottom of frames to help out some late season swarms finish drawing out some plastic foundation now that the solstice has past. I know I have opinions on all sorts of equipment, manufacturers, and distributors I've used over the years and was hoping to hear some opinions from those who frequently buy beeswax foundation. submitted by /u/nostalgic_dragon [link] [comments]”

“Checked the hive today and found this. Safe to say they’re doing pretty well LOL Nature never gets old submitted by /u/The_Honey_Dealer [link] [comments]”

“Located in New Jersey and it’s the first year I have gotten honey from the girls. After I harvest, what’s best way to store frames from super. Don’t have a freezer large enough. Was going to put I a Rubbermaid until I saw a post that mold will grow. Help submitted by /u/voygar2 [link] [comments]”

“Western New York / Zone 5b, Six Years. I've done newspaper combines before, that's not the issue. Getting four colonies to play nicely is. As it says, I've got three 5 frame nucs with queens of varying quality that I don't need to get through the winter, and doubt they will in the 5 frames anyway; they are all pretty light. I also have a ten frame deep that has a great queen (my new fave, I think) that I want to bump up to a double deep for winter, but she won't lay enough fr”

“First year beekeeper and this year didn’t result in any honey for us but we didn’t expect any! Now that the season is over, what should we do with these frames to help out our bees for next year? First year beekeepers in Parkland County, Alberta Canada. submitted by /u/daylincooper [link] [comments]”

“So I checked my hives two weeks ago and they had filled most of their frames with capped honey except a small section on the bottom half. I decided to leave it till I got back from a trip. I was all prepared to have a big honey harvest when I got back but to my surprise, it looked like they had started to eat the honey. I also have a flow hive and could see before I left the frame in front of the glass was being filled with honey, but when I got back it was gone. My brood boxes didn't have m”

“Does anyone notice an increase in hive beetles with in frame feeders? I usually only use top feeders, but was experimenting this year. I have 10x the amount of hive beetles this year compared to last year with using top feeders. I removed the in frame feeder and found 20+ beetles hiding. submitted by /u/Shire1230 [link] [comments]”

“I bought a nuc this April and put it into a new FLOW hive with half of the frames setup with structure and the other half empty. Let them build them out until mid April and added the honey super. I was very excited to see how much they could get while away for the summer on work but came back in August to very little honey and a very sticky super. I just removed the super to add simple syrup feeder and all of the honey is now gone. I had some ants in April but dealt with them and have not seen a”

“Hello everyone, Im a first year beekeeper, located in the southern Netherlands and I have a question, I was inspecting my hive 1 hour ago and I was taking some pictures from some honey frames above my metal roof cover and after i was done inspecting the honey frames i looked down into the box since some bees fell into it and I saw the creatures from the pictures and I would like to know what thing it is since it doesnt look like the varroa destructor mite, For everyone information I started with”

“I have a Langstroth 10-frame hive with two boxes up here in the PNW. The top box is completely full of honey—literally nothing else in it. I only peeked at ( didn't pull it out just looked from the outside) the bottom box, but the one frame I checked had some capped brood and space for more. Based on how heavy that top box is for a typical Pacific Northwest winter, do I even need to bother feeding them? Also, am I at risk of being honey-bound already? submitted by /u/KeyMarsupial”

“Second year beekeeper with Russian bees here in North Western Massachusetts. Here’s the situation: Successfully overwintered a double-deep hive and added a second Nuc in the spring. Now that second Nuc is a thriving hive in a double-deep setup. Then there were swarms caught, bear attacks, and after it all we also have a third hive that is a single deep with a smaller population and good queen. That first hive from over winter has had a medium super on since early in the season. It took them a bi”

“Here in sw mi there is plenty of pollen and I think they ran out of room to store it all. All the frames in bottom super were half pollen no brood I had on excluder. I extracted the honey and was wondering if the bees will clean out pollen next year? I really don't want to scrape it these are my first drawn super frames.Any advice? submitted by /u/Several_Remove_6981 [link] [comments]”

“Hello, I am a new beekeeper based in South Jersey and I have not harvested honey from my hive yet this year. This is my first and only hive (for now). I wasn't really planning on harvesting this year due to recommendations online about allowing the hive to grow and build up the first year, but lately my medium super has been looking quite full. I have waited to add the medium until the deep was nearing completion, so that is also full. I am reluctant to put another medium on top, due to it b”

“Location: Upstate NY; Experience: Newbie this year I started a Flow Hive this year, and everything seemed to be going smoothly. Brood box frames filled out, waxed the super frames, bees moved in there quickly, orientation flight, packed super, and then... Nothing. The population also seems to have dropped a bit. The bees are still busy in the super even if there are fewer of them (maybe by 1/3-1/2 up there), but it seems they're still just waxing cells to perfection in lieu of filling them w”

“I just did an inspection and my top box has a good amount of brood and honey on the outside frames and honey and brood inside. The bottom box is almost exclusively pollen and bee bread. I'm in the Eastern US and we are about two months from fall and last year's winter was brutal. Should I let them go, keep inspecting and hope for the best? I've also heard that taking some of the pollen/bread frames out and replacing with empty frames might encourage more brood production, but I don&#”

“First Yr beekeeping bees and will not move to top box. Any advice? See pics. I'm in NJ submitted by /u/PauPauRui [link] [comments]”

“At this rate I’m going to have to harvest some frames so there’s space to lay eggs.😄 The hardest part of summer beekeeping is figuring out where to put all this honey. /s submitted by /u/Individual_Loan_8608 [link] [comments]”

“Hey Folks, First year keeper here in NW Pennsylvania. I installed my nuc in late May. Medium frames in a medium box. They filled out the rest of my contributed 5 frames in about a week. I added a deep on top of that. As it's sits right now, I'm completely honey bound in the deep. 8 out of 10 frames completely filled with capped honey. I have a healthy mix of everything in the medium beneath it (Side note- I know my deep on top of medium is unconventional, but it's what I had to roll”