This past weekend we finally got a chance to do another inspection on our hives. We were surprised at how built up the comb had gotten in the 2 weeks since we had done a full inspection. It was so built up that it became a problem in some parts as the bees had developed comb that went off sideways and into comb from neighboring top bars! This is a pretty common problem with top bar hives but we thought we were ok since our last several inspections showed them staying in line on the top bars, but over the last two weeks or so they went crazy building comb and some got a bit out of alignment. The result was as we lifted up one top bar the crooked comb would break off from the next top bar.
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Crooked Comb
Posted in Beekeeping, tagged bees, comb, crooked, honey, honey comb, top bar, top bars, wax on June 11, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Full Hive Inspection Video
Posted in Beekeeping, tagged beekeeping, bees, brood, comb, concord, hive, hives, honey, inspection, lexington, top bar, video, wax, youtube on April 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
It finally happened, we are totally caught up on our beekeeping progress with our website! Today we did an inspection on both hives and instead of snapping a bunch of photos we decided to make a video of the experience. We’ve split the video into two parts, the first of our Lexington hive, and the […]
Building Our Top Bar Hives
Posted in Beekeeping, tagged assembly, barrel, bee hive, bees, experience, glue, hardware, hive, instruction, lowes, lumber, screws, top bar, tutorial, wood on April 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Martha and I would like to share with you our experience building our own Barrel Top Bar Hives (TBH). This is not meant to be a step-by-step tutorial, but rather a general overview of the steps we took and lessons learned during the process,. There are plenty of excellent step-by-step tutorials out on the internet […]
Picking The Right Home… For Our Bees
Posted in Beekeeping, tagged accessories, bee hives, beekeeping, bees, commercialization, cost, hives, homestead, langstroth, top bar on March 29, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
If you are at all like us, when you hear about beekeeping you think little white boxes stacked alongside a field filled with buckets of honey. It turns out those bee hives have a name: Langstroth Hives. They are great for large scale commercial beekeepers, as well as people who want the convenience of a […]
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