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I found an informative article and Hive Inspection Checklist created by Jerry Freeman. It explains what to look for when you are inspecting your hives.  Since this is my first year as a beek, I found this information to very helpful and hope others do as well.
 
http://freemanbeetletrap.com/yahoo_site_admin/assets/docs/HiveInspectionArticle2.33152129.pdf (http://freemanbeetletrap.com/yahoo_site_admin/assets/docs/HiveInspectionArticle2.33152129.pdf)

Dean

Thanks for posting it


Tommyt

That helped me a lot. Thanks for the link.

THanks for the link. Very helpful! Love the checklist.

Nice, thanks.

Thanks Dean

Dean, thanks so much for posting this!  For a new beekeeper like myself, this checklist is invaluable. 
Kurt

Now if I can just get that in Excel...

...DOUG
KD4MOJ

Thanks so much! I think I will print a couple of these out for clear, concise recordkeeping this year. What a gem!

Thanks, I'll use that

Good information. Thanks. I've always wondered about proper smoking techniques. Always thought I was using to much smoke. Now I find that the opposite is true.

so he's adding apistan even though there is no mention of mites and there is nectar coming in?  i've got a similar background, kept bees in the 70's and 80's, started back in the 90's, stopped around 04 or 05 then got back in in 2011. he's right, it's a bit more complicated but i don't like seeing mite treatment when nectar is coming in.  i didn't look to see his location, but march is too close to the flow to start treating down here.

This is quite an old thread but I just wanted to bring back the checklist. I am a checklist kind a guy. ;)

Good artical I'm glad I found

Wow zaa. Just what I needed