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...
harmony@...
Jun 8, 2003 8:06 pm
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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...
Welcome Jorge, It would be a real pleasure to hear about your activities so far. Have you found the bees having any preference as to housing material? Dale...
harmony@...
Jul 1, 2003 5:30 am
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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...
If you trap the queen down there with an excluder. It would take some time. You'd have to have combs provided below. James Vroman <james@...> wrote:I...
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...
... Well, I hope we can liven up the group. Unfortunately no group is better than the participants - if they do not post anything, then the group remains dead....
I'll go first, My own TBH experience is very limited, as the only TBHs I've had my hands on, are mating nucs. We use small TBHs for mating queens. They are...
And I'll go second. I am a member of the Apimondia Standing Commission for Beekeeping for Rural Development and, as such have been promoting the concept of TBH...
Dear Dale, Many thanks for your kind welcome message. I have been having some trouble with my ancient PC, hence the delay. Please abide with this ancient...
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...
Hi Sasha: Can you make a picture portfolio for posting? If suitable, I'll post them on my site. Send to webspinner@.... Leonard....
Leonard and/or Anitia...
landabee@...
Sep 7, 2003 3:36 pm
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Hi, Sasha, Nice to hear from you!!!!! Would you tell us more about your TBH? And, where in Serbia do you live? I live in Grenada , in the Caribbean and utilize...
Hello Sasha, I am from USA. I only have one small TBH and three regular frame hives. This is my first year to keep bees. Mine didn't make enough honey this...
Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2003 19:36:37 -0000 From: "zoodood71" <zoodood@...> Subject: Re: anybody here? Hello Sasha, I am from USA. I only have one small TBH...
Dear Sasha, Many thanks for such a nice and prompt response! In a way the Caribbean is, as you call it, a "paradise" for bees, as it is considered everywhere...
Greetings: See www.ccdemo.info and navigate from the home page. There is a link to Steve's Tanzanian page from here, that is a good example of a picture ...
Leonard and/or Anitia...
landabee@...
Sep 9, 2003 2:06 am
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Dear Jorge, It is a pleasure to comunicate with such knowledgeable and polite person like you. I am sorry ,i didnt want to insult your inteligence by pointing...
Greetings Jorge, Sasha, Ping, Steve and others: Notes from California - Central inland coastal valley climate (Walnut Creek, 50 km east of San Francisco)....
Leonard and/or Anitia...
landabee@...
Sep 9, 2003 6:46 pm
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I am resending this as the echo did not show my text - only the original messages from Jorge and Sasha. If this is redundant, please ignore it. ... Greetings...
Leonard and/or Anitia...
landabee@...
Sep 9, 2003 6:59 pm
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It is redundant ... From: Leonard and/or Anitia Barton To: TopHive@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 2:55 PM Subject: [TopHive] RESEND (Varroa...
Leonard, In a recent posting you mentioned, "I observed an average of one varroa per drone brood - some none, some three or four - said to be a heavy...
William W Watkin III
watkin3@...
Sep 10, 2003 10:07 pm
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Hello from Texas; I am new to this group. I am using my first top bar hive this year. I have photos of my TBH in the 'Briefcase' section of my Yahoo profile -...
... I haven't tried a top bar hive yet, my "specialty" if you want to call it that, is to keep the hives in a so called beehouse, an open sided shed, instead...
I am interested in others' experiences with wintering long or TB hive colonies in the North, where winters are extended, and more or less severe. Do the...
Dear Joel, I'd like to offer my two-pence worth of apicultural opinion in reference to your message. Really my experience in reference to overwintering...
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