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Yesterday I fixed up a small hive with upper and lower ventilation, strapped it together, and added a Brushy Mountain Bee Farm moving and robbing screen, partially painted. My plan is to move this hive further from the house–away from the dog–and I will use the method I outlined in the post, “How to [...] Warped boxes are irritating. The boxes in the photo are only about two years old. They were painted and assembled when I first got them, but they still managed to warp. As you can see, the middle portions shrunk away from each other until a space large enough for bee passage appeared between them. [...] Okay, I admit it. I’m enthralled with the word “eke.” But even though I called them “spacer rims” until recently, I’ve been a fan of ekes for a long time. An eke in the Langstroth world is just a very shallow super. Most are between two and three inches deep, but there are no [...] eke (eek) 1. interj. The expression one uses when standing on a kitchen chair looking down at a mouse. (Or is that “eeeeeek!“?) 2. v. to supplement, increase, add to, or augment; now commonly used with “out.” “He eked out his living selling honey.” 3. n. A beekeeper [...] Here is a handy little hive stand I like to use for my mating nuc. My husband built it from just one eight-foot 2 x 4 board for the uprights (in this case Douglas-fir) and two eight-foot 1 x 4 boards for the horizontal pieces (in this case cedar.) Although it would not be [...] Many experienced beekeepers mark a queen by holding onto her legs with one hand and quickly dabbing the paint with the other hand. It looks easy and takes only a moment. But unfortunately that method does not work for me. I like to have lots of hardware between me and her majesty—not to protect [...] Separating bees from honey can be accomplished by either physical or chemical means. The physical means can be divided into fast and expensive (bee blowers) or slow and inexpensive (bee escapes). The slow and inexpensive can be further divided into those that work and those that don’t. Chemical repellants (often called repellant boards, fume [...] Here are some ideas for increasing summer ventilation in a Langstroth hive. They can be used singly or in combination, depending on your climate, weather patterns, hive strength, and personal preference. The screened bottom board used for Varroa control is an excellent device for increasing ventilation in a hive. Many designs have a tray [...] I don’t think there’s anything more confusing to a beginning beekeeper than the names of all the boxes used in a Langstroth hive. Not only do different people use different names, but they use the boxes for different purposes. You can get tangled up in a hurry. Here’s a summary that may clear things [...] |
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