Katherine wrote: "I have an explanation of how we build them with lots more photos that I just sent to Alex. If anyone else would like to see it, I'd be happy...
Bil wrote: "Here is a link to a very nice commented slideshow of the White House Hives. They seem very well equipped. But why is the hive so high?" Dunno, but...
It was said on their site way back that it was due to small children and dogs. I can imagine that any debris from mowers would not go sideways and impact bees...
Thank you all for great advices, I feel a little overwhelmed with the wealth of information. I tend to over-complicate things, which is contrary to Warre idea...
... P.S. Thanks for your enthusiatic encouragement, Andrew. :-) You know we all echo that sentiment. Someday you must tell us what's in your honey that gives...
David, absolutely. Also, the Alaska Range makes a E-W barrier between us and the coast, so quite different weather altogether. We are USDA zone 1, with patches...
Very nice geology lesson Para, and thanks for the fondant recipe..... and I DID finally find that dang bag of pollen I bought a couple months ago in the fridge...
Alex wrote: "It would be very helpful if there was a simplistic, no thrills guide for beginners with a list of absolutely necessary things..." I think the page...
Well alex, You asked a question about materials choice. But honestly, it doesn't matter so much. Most choices we as beekeepers make are besed on preferences...
Somebody in this group said that cylinders and octagons without lids are weak against possible lateral (side) loads. John, I think your construction of octagon...
... Alex, that pretty much describes Nick Hampshire's website: thebeespace.net Have you seen it yet? Katherine [Non-text portions of this message have been...
... That would likely have been me. László's hexagonal hive is almost as good as it gets, in regard to bolstering a technically weak design. The sides...
I believe this publication was mentioned briefly in this forum back in the summer of 2008. I am posting it again for the sake of anyone who missed it or is...
Hi Bill- ... And of course, these octagons can be made to accommodate top bars very easily by reducing the length of the corner inserts by 1 cm, which is the...
I also observed piles of dead bees in the two stronger hives which blocked the entrance hole. A local conventional beek told me he observed the same in some of...
Here is the link to the album. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Organicbeekeepers/photos/album/1075954896/pic/list You might need to join the organic beekepers...
geoff.elena wrote: "Can anyone tell me how to get to see this album 'Geddebeehive' (csuja_laszlo)" Welcome to the group. I do not know of an album of that name...
... http://www.scientificbeekeeping.com/ has also a good bit of info on nutrition as well as diseases and parasites. -- Faster than a speeding slug! I'm...
Hi- ... hives a guessed it was due to the weather conditions: >the old summer bees had no chance to fly out and die while foraging Dead bees often accumulate...
... *LOL* This is a nice proverb - I especially like the bear thing. John, we talked about the topbar issue and you got me thinking a lot about it since. ...
Bernhard wrote: <There is another issue: Times getting harder for some of us not living in the taiga. There are fanatics out here, who are eager to destroy our...
Hi Bernhard- I am totally with you on this. I gave this a great deal of thought last summer. I went so far as to retrieve a few sections of log that were ...
Bernhard wrote: "Here every natural apiary is in danger to get destroyed by public madness." I'm surprised at the cultural difference between there and here....
... Sand paper attached to a flat piece of OSB or particle board, grab handles made out of bars on the other side of that flat board, and rotating this...
dear patrick, i have recently joined the warre yahoo site and see you live in our part of the world. perhaps we could meet sometime - we are near axminster...
When I made elements of Vitvitsky hive, which have form of truncated pyramids, their edges where very uneven. I tried to plane them with electric and hand...
