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Treat yourself to natural raw honey this summer by picking up a Backyard Beehive ($500). This set includes a custom-designed, three-box, eight-frame wooden hive with beeswax-coated Rite-Cell foundations, an adjustable vented helmet with veil, large gloves, a stainless steel hive tool for lifting, prying, and scraping, a wooden bee brush, a stainless steel smoke, and an entrance feeder — everything you need to get started.
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I have a natural (feral?) beehive that the bees attached to some tree branches in my yard.. I don't know how long it has been there. The hive measures about 24" long x 14" wide(many fins of comb. A month ago it was nearly covered with bees. It's getting hot here in the S.California desert and there are now only a third of the bees working it. Is this naturally occuring because of the temperature or flower sources deminishing, or something worse? Might the queen be old? CCD? I'd like to have it flourish on its own. Should I get a new hive to install near it, with a new queen? Please advise!