I have been interested in beekeeping for ages, but never got the opportunity to follow up on it until recently. My sister decided that we needed to do...
TTBH hives are often made wide and deep enough to take a deep frame. They'll work fine with just top-bars. BUT, they're too short. 10 frames will fill up in no...
I have seen top-bar hives with no bottom at all, and no "entrance." The open bottom becomes the entrance. The bees even keep the grass that tries to grow up...
Posted by: "jeff hartman ... they do sell foundationless frames *********************** It has been done...! And you could turn the TB's, short way. Or not. I...
... needed to do something about the lack of pollinators in her garden. However, she is very allergic to bee stings. Therefore it would fall to me to be the...
Actually, university study also says speed trumps method - trying to scratch it out takes too long and pinching it out doesn't "squeeze" any appreciable amount...
For myself, I am not worried about stings, both because I'm not allergic to them and because they will benefit my RA. ... -- Namaste, John (Konchok Jangchup...
... True. ... "squeeze" any appreciable amount of venom in before you remove it. So, pinch that puppy out and forget about fumbling with a scraper or...
Hi all ! My name is Oscar Perone. I live in Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina, and I am 63 years old. I have been keeping bees since I was young, and in...
The most effective hive for African bees in hot areas is the JHH long-hive with at least 50 frames. Think Tanzanian TBH with frames (frames with no bee-space...
I use a translator software forgiveness for the mistakes! Hi all I put links on my blog to see it in English, Portuguese, French and Italian, rusian, rumanian ...
Hey out there! I've been wanting to start a hive for many years - and finally did! Put the bees in my tbh's yesterday. I was just wondering if there was...
Well, over on the Organic Beekeepers Yahoo group both Dee Lusby and Michael Bush pretty much shot down the idea of 3 foot or shorter TBHs, saying they thought...
... The first question is: how much is too much? I would expect each beekeeper would have a different answer to this. The second question is: is this an...
Well now you have me thinking Tom. I just set up my to 36" tbh's Saturday, and the bes sem to like them. Like you, most everything I found was the shorter...
Hi, Tom -- I don't see the need for you to be discouraged so much as I see the need for you to become very well-versed in how to maintain a three foot hive! ...
Hi Tom, After 4 seasons with tbh's 3 ft and some smaller, I would probably agree that the 4 footers would be best. The problem I kept running into was my hives...
Mine filled up and swarmed after the first year. This spring I've found four empty queen cells so far and comb built almost to the back of the 22 bar hive....
Three or four deeps of brood are considered a decent honey-producing hive - where a couple of deeps on top of that would be for honey. The TBH equivalent would...
... with a bigger TBH, and can have ... and ... need ... hive! ...[snip].... My research brought me to a 48" maximum outer ... Bar ... gabled ... volume ... ...
My mature 3' hive filled up fast last year - their first year - even with the drought, and will fill up faster this year - becoming brood-bound fairly quickly....
I have 2 -34's on legs i live in "Town" Joliet IL (Small city ,an not trying to be high profile with this i have 1 lang an 2 of these "MT" Gonna go over to...
I would say it really depends on the honey flow strength and season length in your area...raining all the time with short breaks to get pollen and honey a...
I've been using Les Crowder's design which is 44" long: http://www.permaculture.org/nm/images/uploads/hive_making_plan.pdf I get the sense that I should be...
You don't have room to put an empty TBH next to your full one? All you gotta do, when the full one is nearly full, is divide up the top-bars evenly with the...
Hello everyone! My name is Zoe and I live on Bowen Island in BC Canada. I built two TBH last spring and them bought two packages of bees. I took teh advice...
A 3' long KTBH is small. You get better space utilization in a TTBH and the difference between KTBH and TTBH is a ratio between top and bottom width. TTBH...
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