Betsie, I'm sorry my advise hurt more than helped. It is sometimes very hard to get one's first hive started right. New comb is very hard to deal with. Also,...
Dear Marty, I must thank you for your input on issues of Top Bar Hives especially, Queen Breeding which I would like you to send me a copy and possibly, the...
My first TBH is going well. Success at hiving the bees and queen. However, significant cross combs were formed. I have completed the reattachment of th ecombs...
... If combs have fallen of their own accord, there must be something preventing the bees attaching them properly to the top bars. Do you use starter strips?...
... They did not fall of their own accord. My reattachment did not work very well. Starter strips with bees wax is what I use for the bars. James Miller...
I am enclosing an interesting bee article that showed up on the biodynamic farming discussion list. Interesting how greed and man's desire to make bees more...
For the novice - what is the purpose of "misting with mineral oil?" Thanks. Dick Squires 1900 Marla Drive Reno, NV 89509 USA ... biodynamic farming discussion...
See photo in "Leaf Bees" folder. We've had our tbh for a few months now and ahve never seen the bees do this. It is a healthy, active hive. The other tbh, a...
... We've had our tbh for a few months now and ahve never seen the bees do this. It is a healthy, active hive. The other tbh, a few hundred yards away, is...
... I can't really see the bees posture on my monitor or with my eyes but, if they are kinda hunched and they are lining up and rocking back and forth making...
George, I have one article on queen rearing in topbar hives. I scanned a copy and posted it in the photos but since we can only post jpg photos the type was...
Got them a few months ago. Same source/age/type. Haven't looked in on the hive since the one week installation, and they were making comb well. We think it...
Hi all, I'm new to this group, and have my first TBH here in Connecticut this spring (first hive ever--I'm a newbee). My hive is from backyardhive.com and the...
... Yep - and even if they start off two lobes the bees will attach them when necessary. ... Cut them with a sharp knife and don’t' just detach them, you...
I dislike misting a hive due to any extra mold risk. If it has a metal top, you can add a small towel and invert a jar of water on it. The water slowly leaves,...
I am curious how many hives each of us is managing. In the fall and winter of 2005 in Iowa, I constructed 500 top bar hives to the same design I have been...
I would like to recant my recommendation from then. However intelligent it may have seemed at the time to me with less experience, with more experience I no...
Two things about this. If you provide ample shade, the bees are probably just fine. Bearding is normal during hot weather and NOT an indicator of swarming...
Yesterday I examined the hive more closely with one of my children and it seems the bees had done a great job of building out the combs all along the top bars....
I recommend just cutting the attachment when your remove the top bar, no reason to reshape the comb. The bees will stop attaching it when they don't feel the...
I don't remove attachments unless I am removing bars for inspection or harvest. Even then I just slide a sharpened hacksaw blade between the wall and the comb...
Only 3 hives here in NW Lower MI. You, James Satterfield, Michael Bush and many, many others have been my inspiration. I started 3 years ago with thoughts of a...
introdubtion to new memeber peter, Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Canada First ever home built THB w/carniolan bees website w/complete history and hive...
Hi all, I am happy to have found this group! I am interested in knowing how you folks have build/designed topbar holders for placing topbars with comb...
I use a small picnic cooler for this at the moment . I also often use a Rubbermade type storage bin/tub sometimes, which helps if I"m removing honey comb and...
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