Hi all,
Thanks to all for your posts... very helpful
I was reading the recent flames and thought why not use that energy in a
positive way.
I came across the idea as I was listening to  a beginning beekeeper tell
me how he had obtained a swarm and hived it.  He did not look inside the
box as thru the winter as he thought it was to cold and simply fed the
bees with sugar water. One day he noticed that the bee activity was not
what he considered normal after having refilled the boardman feeder. He
had been refilling the feeder for a month now. He opened the hive and all
the bees were dead.  As he was looking at them a little bewildered as to
how they could be dead when he had faithfully  been filling the feeder a
bees flew in and went straight to the feeder and helped itself and flew
off. In a few minutes there was about 5 or 6 bees coming to the feeder.
They emptied the feeder in a day he realized he had been feeding somebody
elses bees or a feral colony some where.
I thought it was pretty funny.
How about sharing some of them novice mistakes we all make as or made as
beginners.
Hope my post is well received
Thanks to all for your posts
David