Comments for The Natural Bee Farm http://www.naturalbeefarm.com Keeping Bees the Natural Way Tue, 14 Oct 2008 10:28:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Comment on Swarm!!! by beepipes http://www.naturalbeefarm.com/2008/09/28/swarm/#comment-15 beepipes Tue, 14 Oct 2008 10:28:38 +0000 http://bees.taroandti.com/?p=124#comment-15 We just finished our first harvest of a top bar hive. Messy business. Found it works well to have two people – one to do the messy work and one to stay clean and work the lid on the collection bucket. Tools are a little different too – have had good luck with stainless steel spatula and other implements.

Here are pictures:
http://www.backwoodshome.com/forum/yabb/forum.pl?board=fau-livestock;action=display;num=1223329682

Regards,
Pat

]]> Comment on Swarm!!! by Taro & Ti Home | Bees: Swarm!!! http://www.naturalbeefarm.com/2008/09/28/swarm/#comment-14 Taro & Ti Home | Bees: Swarm!!! Mon, 29 Sep 2008 00:10:40 +0000 http://bees.taroandti.com/?p=124#comment-14 [...] I was planning on splitting my KTBH hives into Langstroth equipment this coming Spring. I have a pair of them and figured I’d get four hives out of it. I have six Lang hive bodies ready and will get more soon to give me room for next year’s cutouts and swarms. Also out in the bee-yard I had a 10-frame cutout hive based on the JHH hive design. It was empty except for a couple of combes picked clean by ants. Well, it appears that it was cleaned so well that one of my hives decided to do a split for me and swarm into it. [...]

]]> Comment on Fire-Ant Catastrophy by Taro & Ti Home | Bees: Fire-Ant Catastrophy http://www.naturalbeefarm.com/2008/09/04/fire-ant-catastrophy/#comment-13 Taro & Ti Home | Bees: Fire-Ant Catastrophy Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:38:19 +0000 http://bees.taroandti.com/?p=82#comment-13 [...] It was a hot day in a full suit out in full sun. And I was occupied with this particular cutout for over 7 hours in the Texas heat – mostly trying to get the queen and final cluster of bees that had sequestered themselves in a void within the tree. It was a lot of work – and ended with success. Until the ants came… [...]

]]> Comment on Second Cutout by Taro & Ti Home | Bees: Second Cutout http://www.naturalbeefarm.com/2008/06/09/second-cutout/#comment-12 Taro & Ti Home | Bees: Second Cutout Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:52:38 +0000 http://bees.taroandti.com/2008/06/09/second-cutout/#comment-12 [...] had taken up residence in a well-cover five years ago. I tried to document it as well as possible in this post, including documenting a method of stringing comb to the top-bars that I’m calling the comb [...]

]]> Comment on Yet Another Inspection by Taro & Ti Home | Bees: Yet Another Inspection http://www.naturalbeefarm.com/2008/05/26/yet-another-inspection/#comment-11 Taro & Ti Home | Bees: Yet Another Inspection Tue, 27 May 2008 20:47:28 +0000 http://bees.taroandti.com/2008/05/26/yet-another-inspection/#comment-11 [...] time I suit up and crack open the hive. Especially in a Top Bar Hive such as the one I am using. In this article I describe such an inspection, including locating the queen bee. With all the brood that’s [...]

]]> Comment on First Hive Inspection by beepipes http://www.naturalbeefarm.com/2008/05/10/first-hive-inspection/#comment-10 beepipes Wed, 21 May 2008 10:20:18 +0000 http://bees.taroandti.com/2008/05/10/first-hive-inspection/#comment-10 I have been adding two tablespoons of cider vinegar to each gallon of bee tea, at the suggestion of another bee keeper. It is supposed to help with preventing black mould. Top bars do not seem to have the moisture collection problems found in langstroths, but better safe than sorry.

Regards,
Pat

]]> Comment on First Hive Inspection by Taro & Ti Home | Bees: First Hive Inspection http://www.naturalbeefarm.com/2008/05/10/first-hive-inspection/#comment-9 Taro & Ti Home | Bees: First Hive Inspection Sat, 10 May 2008 23:13:26 +0000 http://bees.taroandti.com/2008/05/10/first-hive-inspection/#comment-9 [...] – out in the open or surreptitiously hidden as we indulge in our hobby and honeybee conservation. This latest article describes my first visit to my beehive after a week of it getting established in its new home. It [...]

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