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- Jackson top bars
- Making a split with a TBH
- Topbar = small cell?
- supering a tbh
- Plans for TBH's : I would like to see some
- need help..
- Which bee race?
- Quick help!
- TBH, Crucial measurement...
- Follower Board ?
- combining 2 weak colongies into a single TBH
- Bee handling question
- Screen bottom TBH?
- tbh honey harvest
- going native from traditional frame hives
- ok, you got me turned on by tbh and 1 level
- "nectar management" in TBH
- will big bees make small comb/become small bees
- Moving to Davenport Iowa
- Any TBHivers in North Cal? I want to visit!
- I need a Queen!
- cord comb guides
- TBH ventilation
- Smaller bees
- How much space per hive in bee yard?
- cheap hives
- vertical TBH
- Moving bees from Langstroth to TBH
- Correcting crossed comb.
- arc topbars
- EFB :(
- why less honey in a tbh ?
- TBH dimension question
- TBH hive tool
- Is it too late for a new TBH to overwinter?
- Harvesting honey.
- no honey?!?!
- lang transfer to tbh
- Top Bar Hives in the UK
- Half barrel TBH?
- spring behaviour question
- Question for Michael B
- Virginia Honey Flows
- Observation KTBH
- Dennis gets a footnote
- tb queen rearing
- robbing!!!
- Any Maryland TBH users out there?
- Kenyan or Tanzanian TBH?
- Feeding Sugar?
- Top Bars expand past the end of the hive
- anyone have experience with bumble bees?
- Contact info
- sugar syrup crystalizing
- Anyone have honey to sell?
- When do queens start slowing down laying?
- 300 bucks for a TBH?
- dimension thoughts
- hive pics
- Ventilation
- press
- Tob Bar Hive bee recommendations...
- black locust or honey locust?
- Sugar treat mites
- tool for one piece top bars-router?
- Queen's Comb Preferences
- Backwoods Home Magazine
- Looking for TBH people close by
- Starting a TBH
- TBH mating nucs
- overwintering
- small cell bees
- regression with THB
- TBH Frames
- TBH Design Ideas
- TBH swarm lure
- managing tbh space, honey and brood
- Langs> TBH - Taperd ?
- PVC pipe TBH
- Feeding Pollen in January-- How and Where?
- newbee goes TBH - how to?
- Tanzanian top bar hive
- Wyatt Mangum article
- discussion on a top bar hive conference in 2007?
- Basswood for Hive Bodies?
- hanging tbh's?
- beeswax molds?
- Berkeley Ca- top bar hive lecture by Les Crowder, March 2, 7 pm
- best size for TBH swarm trap?
- Looking for experienced TBHer's advice
- TBH's by Les Crowder
- From a LANG to a LONG
- TBHers in Oklahoma
- Frame width
- interchangability of natural comb
- "standard" bar length
- World Extractor
- When to start feeding?
- tbh illegal in TN????
- looking for a better link to this..
- alternative to wood TBH
- production..tbh vs langstroth
- moldy comb
- tbh's in the far north?
- Queens and packages
- top bar hive articles
- AHB bar distance
- Requeening
- one queenless hive
- Hive size question.....
- Survival rates in TBH's
- Jumbo Combo Tbh
- dehydrating tbh honey??
- New Tbh Hive Material
- Pollen traps
- Top Bar Hive workshop with K Ruby, Bolinas, Ca, 3/25-26
- Trying to save my back
- combining swarms??
- When to remove follower board & entrance reducer?
- TBH regression time
- swarm abandons tbh
- big booming TBH- in March
- day 2
- spring harvest?
- question for Mr. Bush
- what's the easiest way to phase out old brood comb?
- Smoker and TBH
- the bees' knees
- Newbie Questions
- starter strips
- what is this block of wood for?
- Improving Crush and Strain
- Simple TB-inspired Observation Hive
- swarm hived... now what?
- Introducing new package
- You will like it
- Cleaning cappings
- Caucasian supplier
- Bee houses and TBH's
- newBee question
- feeding a tbh
- Bees hanging on front of hive....
- Presenting top bar hives
- first tbh attempt
- First Check, Badly Crosscombed!!!
- Is this big
- absconded bees
- Would bees enlarge a crack to make 2nd Entrance?
- New package - left home
- Finally Off to a Good Start/One Question
- Dead brood question
- Any Books on TBH maintenance?
- Should I seal cracks
- TBH on ebay
- drone brood uncaping
- swarming and brood cycle
- starter strips?
- position of brood in tbh.
- supering tbh
- Moving a 5 Frame Nuc to TBH
- how many brood frames?
- ? starter strips
- Installed Two New Packages in long hive
- Old brood comb for wax?
- when to move back board
- Viewing Capped Brood?
- was this a bad idea?
- photos,my long hive
- requeening
- KTBH Observation Hive
- Scot's Very Late Update
- How to get bees out of a skep and into a TBH...
- rooftop hives
- building tbh's out of supers??
- Walk Away Split
- falling comb
- cut comb/ long hive ?
- Is my queen alive?
- Drifting/robbing question
- Brood Comb Question
- plastic bucket hive ,skep
- Ever try splitting a TBH to a Small Cell Lang?
- two colonies in one divided TBH- any issues?
- tbh experience,low honey crop
- Kenyan Top Bar Hive on Ebay
- Newbee queen release question
- Long Term Comb Straightening
- Still wondering if queen is alive
- swarming
- Intro and a question
- combining colonies/laying workers fun
- Keep feeding?
- San Francisco East Bay TBH club/potluck/meeting ?
- Top bar Hive
- Combs perpendicular to bars!
- My top bar experiences so far..hah..
- tbh starter question
- screen bottom
- Nuc > TBH question ?
- No smoker--How badly am I going to get stung?
- TBH swarm catching frames
- That was SO COOL!!!!!!!
- adding a super?
- Newbie questions (long)
- 'Nuther question
- KTB Observation Hive Picture
- give the queens time?
- Newbie with 3 hives in New Mexico
- Swarm Prevention in a TBH
- Hive needs ventilation or something else?
- tbh size and design
- Ottawa update- new beekeeper- new tbhs
- new pictures
- When to harvest in the first year?
- You all convinced me to try a topbar
- very tight top bars
- My Russians don't like me
- comb honey
- Comparing TBH & Langstroth
- which tools do you use to build tbh's?
- tbh
- discombobulated comb
- Dying Hive; any chance of survival ?
- honey jar sizes?
- overfeeding?
- Ventilation in Top Bar and Long Horizontal Hive
- Top Bar Update from West Virginia
- Using standard frame bars
- wax starting
- Favorite Straining Methods
- Brood in most of the hive.
- winter honey positioning
- drone comb and other observations
- Do you number the frames?
- number of bars
- Surprise Swarm
- harvesting comb
- entrance holes
- number of bars; different situation
- observation hive questions
- Kenyan vs. Tanzanian question
- Does this sound about right...
- How Often to Check New Hive
- follower board option
- Egg laying workers
- Big Groups of Bees
- laying workers?
- when moving a hive to a new location...
- split
- Learning by Crisis