Posts Tagged ‘bees’
Harvesting honey and splitting top bar hive into a warre hive
kenyan top bar hive, Warre hive, cutting comb to fit into warre hive.
Top Bar Hive Inspection0
Doing an inspection on one of my top bar hives. This is the first top bar hive I built. The queen in this hive is most likely not the original queen from the package that was installed on April 1, 2010. Earlier in the season the hive produced several supercedure queen cells. The original queen was not marked. This is also the first time I have found the queen since the package was installed April 1, 2010.
How to do a quick check on a top bar hive
www.biobees.com Phil Chandler – The Barefoot Beekeeper – demonstrates how to do a quick inspection of a top bar hive using his two-follower system.
Installing bees into a top bar hive
This is an installation after I cut a nice feral hive out of someone’s wall, I’m using my own designed frames for cut outs top bar hives don’t use frames but frames are sure handy during a cut-out! You can check out my Bee Blog @ tbh-bees.blogspot.com






