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 Topic: Too hot in a deep floor hive? |
Swing Swang
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 Forum: Horizontal top bar hives Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2014 8:26 pm Subject: Too hot in a deep floor hive? |
| One of my Warre's is looking just the same too. |
| Topic: Too hot in a deep floor hive? |
Swing Swang
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Forum: Horizontal top bar hives Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2014 8:24 pm Subject: Too hot in a deep floor hive? |
| One of my Warres is looking just the same too. |
| Topic: Dead and dieing bees around my TBH's |
Swing Swang
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Forum: Bee health: the treatment (or not) of bee pests and diseases Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2014 1:08 pm Subject: Dead and dieing bees around my TBH's |
| Can't comment on the bees, but you've got a nice sound recording of a chiff chaff. |
| Topic: Rose Hive method |
Swing Swang
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Forum: Conventional and miscellaneous hives Posted: Sat May 24, 2014 8:37 pm Subject: Rose Hive method |
| Tim makes some very good points in his book which is essentially about the method and not just about his hives-eg single size box that is small enough to be lifted when full of honey, no queen exclu ... |
| Topic: Propolis/Shellac recipe for inside of hive |
Swing Swang
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Forum: Horizontal top bar hives Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2014 9:32 pm Subject: Propolis/Shellac recipe for inside of hive |
| Thanks for the link Phil |
| Topic: adding stratiolaelaps to a new deep floor |
Swing Swang
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Forum: Horizontal top bar hives Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2014 6:49 pm Subject: adding stratiolaelaps to a new deep floor |
Any natural, non-chemical prevention/control has to be better than the twice yearly chemical strip treatment we must perform here (NZ) as part of the hive registration enforced Varroa control steps ... |
| Topic: Propolis/Shellac recipe for inside of hive |
Swing Swang
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Forum: Horizontal top bar hives Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2014 6:42 pm Subject: Propolis/Shellac recipe for inside of hive |
| Just out of interest - why the desire to varnish the inside of a hive with propalis and/or shellac, or anything else for that matter, when given a season the bees will do it for you? |
| Topic: Painting Our House |
Swing Swang
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Forum: Horizontal top bar hives Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2014 8:53 pm Subject: Painting Our House |
| My observations are different. I used bitumastic paint last year and the bees just kept on landing on it and getting stuck - about 50 dead bees per square foot. Paint a stick, plant it near the apiary ... |
| Topic: adding stratiolaelaps to a new deep floor |
Swing Swang
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Forum: Horizontal top bar hives Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2014 5:52 pm Subject: adding stratiolaelaps to a new deep floor |
| My first impression is that as S Scimitus is a soil living organism its natural inclination will be to go down rather than go up, so the best that you can hope for is that the bug will stay in the dee ... |
| Topic: My first selfmade TBBH |
Swing Swang
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Forum: Horizontal top bar hives Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2014 7:42 am Subject: My first selfmade TBBH |
| A bitumen ridge piece is lang-lasting, reasonably lightweight, and not too expensive. Might need two if your hive is longer than 1m though, but you could get two Warre coverings out of a single sheet. ... |
| Topic: My first selfmade TBBH |
Swing Swang
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Forum: Horizontal top bar hives Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2014 7:41 am Subject: My first selfmade TBBH |
| A bitumen ridge piece is lang-lasting, reasonably lightweight, and not too expensive. Might need two if your hive is longer than 1m though, but you could get two Warre coverings out of a single sheet. ... |
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