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Israel, Iran and Greece are between 30deg and 40deg North of the Equator and have very distinct seasons. Swarm in the spring and forage in the summer. Since the beginning of time in that region, bees...

Nobody has ever only bought one book on beekeeping. Buy them all like the rest of us.LOL

The simplest way to make Warre Hive frames is to take a standard Lang frame and cut a piece out of the middle of the top bar reducing it to the desired length, and then doweling the two pieces back...

I have a bee vac and when I do cut outs I vac all the bees off the comb first and then can take my time removing the comb, separating the honey comb from the brood comb, attaching just the brood comb...

I try to put them through the system starting new frames in the honey supers for a year or two and then moving them to the brood boxes for another year or two and then cleaning them off and starting...

The beauty of running one size of box through out your whole apiary is that this problem does not arise. I run all 3/4 boxes for brood and honey supers and I always have spare drawn out frames. Also...

This is the Japanese answer to the Warre hive. I have seen the same design on You Tube clips when Japanese beekeepers were harvesting their hives.

I run all 3/4 sizes boxes for brood and honey supers and this makes it very easy to rotate frames with combs every three or four years. Old brood frames are cleaned up and new foundation installed...

google Chux, click on images of Chux superwipes

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The weave is more open than the Wypall and comes in rolls

I am posting this from New Zealand and although we do not have SHB in our country, I read a very interesting article in our local National Beekeepers Association journal, The New Zealand Beekeeper of...

The most useful modification that I have made to my smoker, and make it easy to light , was to drill a small hole in the side of the main body just above the fire grate. Made a small flap of thick...

Read Randy Oliver's web site for all the info and instructions you will need on trapping of mites using drone comb. .www.scientificbeekeeping.com

We would be interested in the specifications of your modified Warre, length, breadth and height , and your planned manipulations for the season.

The best bee vac by far is the Bushkill Farms one on Robo's World.
Vac directly into a standard hive with provision for comb retrieval as well.
Has worked for me with very little bee losses...

I have found the best results using one or two old but clean brood comb frames, no honey as that could start a robbing frenzy, and a few drops of lemon grass oil at the entrance of the swarm trap....

If you are just starting out it would be worth considering using just one size of box and use all 6 5/8. This will give you much more flexibility when working your hives.
In the UK a beekeeper named...

I live on the other side of the world but have seen a web site that may be able to assist you and give you advise.
Contact www.backwardbeekeepers.com and on the right hand side of the page they have...

I have found this method ideal if you want either just the top bar with end bars cut to any length you want ( to stop the bees fixing comb to the sides of the hive ) This will give you the required...

When making my Warre Hive and thinking about the top bars, I decided to use standard Lang frames, reduced in length of the top bar by cutting a section out of the middle and doweling the two pieces...

The small butane torch is great, especially if you drill a 10mm hole in the base of the smoker just above the fire grate and have a small swing cover to close the hole once the smoker it lit. Puts...

Dip your finger in the honey and have a taste !!!!!

John Pluta of georgiabees.blogspot.com has the same system and has a number of videos on the subject. But at the end of the day it is just a cd cover modified with a small enterance so the SHB can...

Although this looks like a fantastic new product, there have been other forms of formic acid evaporation pads on the market before.
The Europeans have used a system for years and Canada has had an...

Have you considered putting the two brood boxes right up against each other each with its own queen, and only one stack of honey supers. With two half lids on the brood boxes and a modified queen...