I would suggest you wait 'till next spring now and then use some form of artificial swarm/shook swarm to get them into a warre. I believe that some sort of a...
Below, refernces given: Christ had 50,000 cells for 2 boxes. As his metric conversion was suspect, "fixing" it seems to yield 27 ltr for 2 brood boxes, ea...
... I have populated most of my Warrés from Langstroth hives (not getting the number of swarms I hope for this year). Early in spring I tried an adaptor...
John wrote: "Sometimes all we hope for is for the colony to produce enough honey to survive, without being forced to live on beet sugar." As of now I would...
... That's a good point to highlight David, especially for beginners as it is a bit demoralising. The british bee farmers association have warned that by...
Carol wrote: " Is there a way to confirm that they are honeybees before I start to get them out?" The caller's information is more often than not misleading. I...
The editor of 'Apitec', the Mexican journal of beekeeping, wants to translates my article on the Warré hive into Spanish and publish it there. This gives an...
Bernhard wrote: "Natural beekeeping is more an up and down the hills. Very wild and lively." It certainly is! I lifted my first Warré on 30 July to remove a...
idrek1@... wrote: "I would really like to switch over but not sure how to get them out of a traditional hive into a Warre Hive. Has anyone done that...
Bill wrote: "What would be the Warre" cell count in 1 or 2 brood boxes?" It is difficult to say yet. Measuring cell size will take place at harvest. It can...
... Country UK Total number of Warre hives: 2 Number of colonies built comb in 1 box: 2 Patrick Taunton Vale, Somerset, South West England Altitude = 46 m /...
Country Spain (1000m ) ... drawn comb in 3 boxes beginning to draw in 4th . Varroa count in 1 zero per day (natural swarm), others around 1-2, with exception...
La Libera Abelo Google e-group exists to develop and promote natural and simple beekeeping methods excluding all treatments in the hives based on the divisible...
... Queen breeding!!!!! They are joking surely?! Queen breeding is one of the fundamental mistakes, what is otherwise fundamental about it? Patrick Taunton...
Patrick wrote: "Queen breeding!!!!! They are joking surely?! Queen breeding is one of the fundamental mistakes, what is otherwise fundamental about it?" I'm...
Dear Bill, Thanks for this. It was featured on UK Natonal news a couple of days ago as a UK university research team are working on it. It is interesting to...
Aside from not seeing how one acquires drones from a variety of sources, or tests the prespecdtive queen or drones for suitability, what's wrong with queen...
Hi all- I'm beginning to believe that beekeeping conditions , and perhaps methodology, will differ somewhat on this side of the ocean. I think David Cushman...
Bill, Artificial Queen rearing is one of the major reasons for the decline in the bees vitality and one of the key issues we need to address in restoring them...
My warre stats! Country: UK Total number of Warré hives: 2 Number of colonies built comb in 1 box: 1 (cast hived 14th May) Number of colonies built comb in 2...
Hi- ... I don't doubt that those who super will harvest more honey those who add boxes on the bottom. And this honey, of course, will not have been stored in...
... Why should that be the case, John? What is it about supering above that makes the bees want to produce more honey? Patrick Taunton Vale, Somerset, South...
Hi Patrick- ... That is a very, very good question. I don't "know" that they do, but I strongly believe they do. If I may, I will refrain from giving a ...
If bearding means you have to vent the top than suppering the top probably doesn't matter? If bearding is normal in controlling the internal temperature, maybe...
It probably has to do with the heat of the brood nest, they don't like empty space above it. ... From: "moersch51" <moersch51@...> Sent: Saturday, August...
Patrick wrote: "Was that a rant!?" Even if it was, which I doubt, I found it useful to have the arguments gathered together. I'm going to have to tackle queen...
