I'll leave the HSC in the top Two boxes on until there backfilled, may get one box from a couple this year. In warre beekeeping you don't open the hive, you...
Thanks very much, Peer. Looks like my relatives in Schwarzenfeld (near Schwandorf) are in 6B, just as I am. I had always suspected the climate was the same...
Just wanted to thank everyone who answered the questions I had. Ordinarily I would not just say "thanks" and run, but I've had a family emergency and been away...
Patrick wrote: "What about warrebees.com? What's happening with that?" Last time I looked a few days ago it was working OK and to a certain extent mirroring...
Hi anyone, I just published my new edition of my howto on Warré beekeeping http://www.selbstversorgerforum.de/bienen/Bienenhaltung_fuer_alle_klein.pdf Version...
... http://www.selbstversorgerforum.de/bienen/Bienenhaltung_fuer_alle_klein.pdf ... Thank you. Maybe you can add a hint how many boxes should be used if a ...
Hi all- We're heading into another five-day rainy spell after five warm (20+ C) and sunny days. Bees would have been working the dandelions hard, so hopefully...
Hello everyone, yesterday I populated my first Warre' hive with a fat primary swarm from one of my conventional hives, with a good Queen of 2006. No problems...
As Johnny Cash sings "I think I'll go out to Alberta the weather's good there in the fall". With honey harvests like that I might not wait 'till the fall and...
So finally as of May 31st I have bees in one Warre. It's a reasonable sized artificial swarm which covers all frames in one box. I did the 'in the cellar...
Olli wrote (addressing Bernhard): "Thank you. Maybe you can add a hint how many boxes should be used if a swarm gets introduced in a new Warré. I used 3 boxes...
Bernhard wrote: "I just published my new edition of my howto on Warré beekeeping." I had a quick flip through -- very comprehensive. There's much there that ...
Summer weather finally arrived in Fairbanks this weekend, and the bees are loving it. Pollen of every hue is coming in, and some nectar is now available. I...
Hi Max, Sorry for the embarassment! The recipe is from biodynamic beekeeping and is apparently a natural way to invert the syrup to make it more like nectar...
How hot was that heating up of the sugar and water? It shouldn't be warmer than 20°C. And only very little chamomille is used. I'd go for dandelions instead...
John wrote: "The longer this rainy spell/warm spell pattern holds, the greater our chances of having a stupendous honey year." Here, things got off to a good...
Peer wrote: "yesterday I populated my first Warre' hive with a fat primary swarm" Congratulations! 'Fat' is not the word I can use to describe what I have just...
Patrick wrote: "So finally as of May 31st I have bees in one Warre." So these were the ones swarmed into a swarm box on 29th? Patrick: "I did the 'in the...
Hi Patrick- ... That song was actually written and first recorded by our very own Ian Tyson, who ,along with his music, owns and operates a cattle ranch south ...
Vic, You say that a lot is blooming and there is plenty of nectar out there now? Plenty perhaps? But only bees know how much - by actually visiting the...
Patrick - great news. Have you put them on 2 warre boxes? Presumably just with wax strips. What is the purpose of the cellar treatment? My small cast seems to...
That's right David the colony is the one artificially swarmed on the 29th. I used Bernhard's suggestion of caging the Queen and putting her at the entrance of...
Hi Mike, Yes mine are on two boxes with strips, with a third underneath to fit the feed tub in. I am trying to get a definitive answer from Michael Weiler...
... Sounds amazing John. I suggest we have the first world warre jamboree in Alberta, but in the fall not the spring (LOL) Patrick Taunton Vale, Somerset,...
Simple question I may ask. Would a bee voluntarily go into a dark cellar? Although I randomly draw the anger of the biodynamic beekeepers on me - I strongly...
Max wrote: " What's the recipe (and benefit to the bees), I tried this a month ago, after you had mentioned it in a previous post." The earliest reference I...
Vic wrote: "Does anyone know why one colony would be killing off drones this time of year? There were about 20 dead ones in front of the hive, and I saw the...
Hi Frank- ... Yes. I had an argument with Dee Lusby on the organics list some time ago about this subject. My argument was that flowers can be very fickle when...
Hi Patrick, Bernhard, David, Don't apologise for my embarrassment, Patrick,one of life's little banana skins ;-). O.K. I've got a handle on the sugar...
