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Can't get above the bars on TBH. For brood area bar to bar and spacers in rest of hive.

Four Frame Nuc installed 3/29. Foundationless, building straight and fast. 1812

1811 Put in package April 6 and they are building rapidly. Very good cone building will take pictures asap. No cross comb at all.

Only robbing I have is with a feral hive of black bees I have been trying to get a swarm from. Located the tree but haven't gotten a swarm yet. I sit between them sometimes without any problems...

I have 2 TBHs facing @4' and don't have a problem been that way since last May. Bees are like Hueys they can go striaght up.

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A lot of top bars open on the side.

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Hopkin, They shouldn't any more that with a lang, but if they do i'll remove the follower board and cut and move each one in turn as with any top bar.

BUZZ and miller, Put one coat of fiber and three coats of glass with five coats of spar varnish. Hives in fairly shady area so I hope I can revarnish every other year top only. Have some good...

1209Made from excess 3/16 by 3/4 cypress strips from ocean kayak built last Summer. The colored wood is either cedar or walnut. (running a little short of scraps)
1210Front view. Double thickness at...

Ordered 10 boxes last week and received today via Fedex and they are as good premium from anywhere else. Don't know how he does it so economical and free shipping.

Find someone who received a package of bees and get them to give it to you to keep your bees in and also when you feed them honey make sure they have water also. A cricket basket you find at the...

http://russellapiaries.webs.com/ Think he has some for late needs.

undo the caps.

By the way, if you take a good dose of sulpher and molasses they are less prone to stick and less prone to infect if they do. Don't know how safe that part is, but I was given a BIG dose each Spring...

put powdered sulpher in a sock and each time you head to the woods dust your legs, boots, and pant legs with the sock. No red bugs (chiggers) or ticks. No odor or side effects.

ferment then distill at about 120. Very good I hear.

I use single strength (1/8"). I don't use a lot of hammers around my hives and I try to be gentle while working the bees.

If it started with the SBB why not just remove it? It may be both SBB hives buzzing you and not just mellita.

Three coats of Spar Varnish or Spar polyurathane

I have mine on three cinder blocks with the entrance about five feet from the six foot fence, they have no problem going up and over. If you have a six foot fence on all sides I wouldn't worry about...

There is not a dog that won't bite, a horse that won't kick, or a bee that won't sting in any given situation.

Been a while since I heard of Tom Bean, TX. Had a Whitewright address for 7 years but lived closer to Tom Bean. Lot of good people in that area. Had about a dozen hives for the ochard at that...

I use glass and don't have any problems. Plesiglass scratches way to easy when you cut the cone away to lift bar.

Silicone will adhere to plexiglass but sometimes you have to use steelwool to rough up the very edge and clean with alcohol. The rosin in the pine will eventully allow the silicone to let go of...