Hello, anyone ? Sasha,from Serbia who has made 10 tbh and is waiting the next spring to purchase the bees... -- http//:www.geocities.com/frogkailo this e-mail...
Hello fellow top-bar hiveists, I am Jorge Murillo-Yepes, Colombian Agronomical Engineer, living in Grenada for the past 26 years. I've done the conventional...
Hello all - we are officially down to a single group. FOlks on the old group were invited to join and many did. Nice to have everyone still interested in one...
I am just getting started in Beekeeping. I went to a class provided by a local Bee group last fall and was hooked. I am presently building a KTBH that is made...
One week ago I pulled 2 frames of drawn comb out of the top brood chamber of a 2 chamber hive, and replaced with empty frames with 1/2 in strips of foundation...
Hi there, I'm new to the list, is there any activity? I keep a few hives in Ontario Canada, and it gets cold and snowy here. Does anyone have experience with...
Gretings All: I had to obtain a small amount of uncooked honey to mix into a paste of stored pollen, for alergy treatment for my grandchildren (ages 8 and 10)....
Greetings All: Although I am not in a hard winter area (near coastal central California = bee paradise) I am developing a compact box tanzanian style that may...
A team of us in the USA need 30 seconds of your time to help protect bees worldwide from the "next varroa", whatever that might turn out to be. Please send an...
Greetings: Latest pix and a write-up - navigate via main page ccdemo.info. I'll show this to the bee club in September and then it will be available for bees....
Greetings All: I will be unable to do further hive or web site development work until later in August. However, I intend to improve the hive design further and...
Hello all-- This pertains to the top bar hive I designed and built with a woodworking friend and have been using for several months now. Pictures and notes...
Greetings All: NEW PIX For the latest arch bar with very shallow starter web see "www.ccdemo.info/GardenBees/NewWoodBarPix" (no HTML). You can also navigate ...
Greetings All: CalKenyan 4 uses a mix of wood and plastic (folded corugated polypropalyne with high impact syrene reenforcment). Over time the plastic bars...
Greetings all: FERRAL HIVE CAPTURED. Last week I picked up a hive. It was in a large loudspeaker box (including speakers). This was suspended from chains in a...
Howdy y'all, I'm considering changing my frame size from Norwegian Standard to Langstroth. This will also allow me to use wider bars on my TBH's (my intention...
Greetings all. Now on part 2 of the CK4 construction pages - roof foil insulation, solar powered vent fans, and comb support loop added to bar. Leonard....
Greetings All: From two full bars of honey store, 40% fully built out and sealed, plus remnant honey from two brood combs and 4 top bars I obtained 36 fl. oz....
Greetings all: 95 degree weather yesterday. Had 2 heavy honey stores break off - they broke at the top of the stored honey and about an inch below the bar web....
Hi All: This is in response to Steve's ant killing. Rather than killing ants it is simple to keep them out of the hive. You only need to have hive legs (or a...
Greetings All: (Haven't heard from Ping - how are things going in Denmark?) SMOKE: I agree with Steve that minimal smoke is the best, mainly because I do not ...
Greetings to the group: Please see "http://www.ccdemo.info/GardenBees/CK4/CK4Construction.html", also acessible from the GardenBees page There will be some...
Greetings Top Bar Group: CK4 is well under way. This is a 22.5 degree (from vertical) with 48 inch interior length (my bees need more room in both dimensions)....
Note to list - see Steve's new hive at "http://www.xscd.com/tbh/" I don't think I can eliminate the longitudinal elements as proposed below, at least for this...
Ping: Third try - if this got in previously, delete it ... Greetings all: A week ago I moved my bees out to a garden club as they were inclined to sting my...
Ping, I'm having a devil of a time getting in to the group. Yahoo says they have sent me a confirmation number via email but they have not so I can't "verify"...
Hi Leonard, Bill, and John (I left Steve out because his mail bounces) In order to facilitate our discussion of top-bar hives, I have created this discussion...
