Of all the bits involved in making a Warre the only bit I wasn't suitably prepared for was making the rebate for the bars. The blade on my hobbyist table saw...
... The swarm has been in the cavity only for 28 hours. So maybe not enough time for the bien to establish the colony. Still: this morning, when I checked the...
... ************************** two ideas i can think of, one use another piece, or pieces of wood under the piece you are cutting the rebate in to raise the...
A slat 1x1cm can be glued on top of board, even bigger, but what is extra have to be out side. ... From: Dave Thorn <davet@...> Subject: [warrebeekeeping]...
[NB: also posted on biobees Abbé Warré and other vertical top bar hives' thread. Repeated here least it should be of any interest:] The majority of folk in...
Sure, that would be interesting too. We're mostly discussing the bees that were imported in 1997 and line bred through the USDA program. And specifically our...
That's excellent! I set up a swarm trap/bait hive but didn't catch any...it was just a warre hive assembled on a floor with no base, strapped together so it...
Chris - This is only for catching swarms from swarm calls I get. I use separate large plastic flower pot boxes as bait hive - though little success to date on...
Hi Chris- ... A couple of things make them expensive. First is availability. Even in the warmest part of Canada, south western British Columbia, the mating ...
"moersch51" wrote: "I would rather give my bees the best chance of survival by giving them a good home, and then taking my hands off. Millions of research...
John, Can't you trade with your friends? That's how I and many of my friends get new queen stocks, we trade with each other. Scot McPherson ... -- Scot...
Well I wasn't saying they wouldn't go after the stuff...I WANT them to go after the stuff, that's why i leave it out to get cleaned up and picked at....I was...
If you can manage it, the "strongest" solution is to make it one piece of wood. Added shelves cutting rebated hive body sides smaller and adding tops adds cost...
Tim, I have the dubious blessing of being days behind on my reading, putting me in a good position to follow up--how did this turn out? I'd have taken the...
I have an afinity for Antiques. In fact I have a library full of antique and ancient beekeeping books. The funny thing about it is that I have gotten most of...
A brief moderator comment: the profligate use of the email quoting facility is creeping in again with some extending to quintuple >s. As all the messages are...
... I have been meaning to ask the moderator (or anyone familiar with yahoo groups) what amount of space used by a member in files or photos is considered...
John wrote: "I am very interested that it is working with just brood comb and lemon grass oil. Can you confirm the comb is void of live brood?" Yes. But I do...
Dave T wrote: "I borrowed a router, so was able to make the rebate in the prescribed way, but if someone doesn't have this option, how about pinning a strip...
Bernhart wrote: "1) heavy traffic. mainly orientation flights (good sign?)" Yes. But if it was apparently wide sweeping orientation as if they were combing the...
Robin wrote: "In order to try and reduce any stress on the bees being transferred from the box/skep they have been caught in to their destination hive I have ...
Larry wrote: "...and natural selection encouraged through the survival of the healthiest colonies capable of productivity without intervention." But if there...
Fritz wrote: "what amount of space used by a member in files or photos is considered civil and not hogging the system." I see we've used 34% of the files...
Larry wrote: "Does anyone have an effective method to keep paper wasps (genus Polistes) from building nests in their bait hives?" I had one Vespula vulgaris...
Hi- Scott wrote- "Can't you trade with your friends? That's how I and many of my friends get new queen stocks, we trade with each other." Well I haven't been...
Right on Scot, it may be better then putting a wet super back on a hive, not only is it less work, it could be a little disruptive to the hive or even cause...
