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	Sticky: New portable TBH [ Goto page: 1, 2 ]	46	biobee	201549	Mon Nov 19, 2018 6:25 pm AliceTurner
	Sticky: Mesh floor material [ Goto page: 1, 2, 3 ]	69	biobee	307089	Thu Jan 19, 2017 7:39 pm Buzztheword
	Sticky: How to make a top bar hive using straw and cow dung...	4	biobee	28445	Sun Oct 09, 2016 6:16 pm Tomas
	Sticky: Simple hive-building jig	27	biobee	115892	Tue Mar 31, 2015 5:40 pm obcarskas
	Sticky: bevelled edge topbars	14	zaunreiter	71838	Fri Jun 27, 2014 10:57 am agapetos
	What's happened?	3	david3649	15659	Tue Dec 17, 2019 10:57 pm charentejohn
	Hole(s) drilled in follower boards	3	DocBB	9334	Wed Sep 25, 2019 1:40 am DocBB
	See through follower	3	Rusty Strings	14299	Tue Sep 17, 2019 7:05 am Rusty Strings
	Center or End entrance?	8	Adam B	16883	Tue Sep 03, 2019 1:20 pm flowrida
	First timer!	9	Chameau	19594	Tue Aug 20, 2019 11:14 am Barbara
	My hTBH in Quarry Bank [ Goto page: 1, 2 ]	51	BuffBum	129132	Fri Jul 19, 2019 8:27 pm BuffBum
	Anyone use osmo polyx floor oil inside a hive?	2	joshrobs	9588	Thu Jul 18, 2019 2:41 pm Adriaan
	Do bees care about e.g. screw heads inside hives?	5	joshrobs	11581	Wed Jul 17, 2019 3:06 pm joshrobs
	Reasons to NOT use periscope entrances?	0	joshrobs	6661	Wed Jul 10, 2019 10:57 am joshrobs
	Do followers poke through the eco floor?	4	joshrobs	10562	Wed Jul 10, 2019 10:46 am joshrobs
	Free Swarms for "Ethical" TBH BK's	8	John R	19485	Tue May 28, 2019 10:11 pm John R
	Four Cathedral TopBarHives alll doing well	0	beegraham	7105	Thu May 23, 2019 8:19 pm beegraham
	Deleted	2	TimC	8246	Wed May 22, 2019 1:40 pm TimC
	Deleted	7	TimC	14210	Sun May 19, 2019 1:59 am TimC
	Multipurpose mini hktbh	3	imago	9964	Fri May 17, 2019 3:32 pm imago
	Clarity on the "Additional Maintenance Required"	5	Adam B	11902	Thu Apr 04, 2019 7:45 am imago
	Propolis/Shellac recipe for inside of hive	16	msscha	46782	Mon Mar 04, 2019 4:25 am AlanT
	Old comb	2	Mick Flower	8293	Sat Mar 02, 2019 11:13 pm Mick Flower
	Cathedral hive-the next evolution in TBH design?	27	Michael Dreyer	79689	Tue Jan 15, 2019 4:01 pm beegraham
	Sugar Dusting	1	beegraham	9145	Tue Jan 15, 2019 2:18 pm jetam
	Using cork for a top bar hive	0	cloudy	8264	Thu Jan 03, 2019 6:58 pm cloudy
	Three top bar hives doing well	3	beegraham	15940	Sat Nov 03, 2018 4:52 pm beegraham
	top bar kenyan, linseed on inside of hive too?	2	tetragona	9696	Sat Oct 27, 2018 4:36 pm Viggen
	Timing for Splitting a Hive?	5	Labow	13536	Wed Aug 15, 2018 9:41 pm Labow
	Removing plastic foundation	2	ironchemist	10307	Tue Jul 17, 2018 1:06 pm ironchemist
	No eggs 3 weeks after swarm	10	Labow	19910	Tue Jul 10, 2018 7:38 am Barbara
	Prime swarm not left yet? Is Taranov split posible	4	Lizbee	13900	Sun Jul 08, 2018 12:39 am Lizbee
	Queen Excluder	7	bobdurivage	17156	Fri Jun 15, 2018 5:56 pm Barbara
	Small Pieces of Wax in Honey After Processing	2	Labow	10100	Wed Jun 13, 2018 3:53 am Labow
	Top bar hive plan's.	1	SimonCurtis	15059	Tue Jun 12, 2018 11:32 am beegraham
	Honey for Winter	1	bobdurivage	8821	Wed May 30, 2018 1:15 pm Barbara
	Splitting very full TopBarHive	2	beegraham	10772	Tue May 15, 2018 3:46 pm beegraham
	One dead and one almost dead collony.	3	semiautonomous	11989	Sun May 06, 2018 11:19 am semiautonomous
	Reuse comb that bees died in through starvation	3	mal	11854	Sun Apr 22, 2018 3:35 pm Barbara
	Making top bar hive	3	redders	15518	Sat Apr 07, 2018 1:33 pm MikeRobinson
	Baiting a full size hive	0	Rusty Strings	19487	Fri Mar 16, 2018 11:18 am Rusty Strings
	Couple of Questions about Processing Honey	0	Labow	14098	Fri Feb 16, 2018 3:54 pm Labow
	follower design - a woodwork question	6	CescaBeamish	27557	Fri Feb 09, 2018 10:36 am Rusty Strings
	How do you Treat your HTBH with Mite Away Quick Strips	0	Labow	13999	Thu Oct 26, 2017 11:30 pm Labow
	TopBarHiveProgress is looking good.	2	beegraham	13434	Fri Oct 13, 2017 3:20 pm catchercradle
	Feisty bees in TBH	5	AndyC	19056	Tue Aug 29, 2017 11:26 am Barbara
	Buckfast bees in a mixed Apiary	3	Adam Rose	16035	Mon Aug 28, 2017 5:50 am madasafish
	Spacing Between Hives	5	bobdurivage	17644	Fri Aug 11, 2017 9:54 am Barbara
	Cathedral top bar hive August update	0	beegraham	13412	Tue Aug 08, 2017 9:23 pm beegraham
	Cross combing disaster	14	B Dawson	30967	Fri Aug 04, 2017 2:24 pm B Dawson
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Quality Top Bar Hives by Andrew Vidler

Conserving wild bees

Research suggests that bumble bee boxes have a very low success rate in actually attracting bees into them. We find that if you create an environment where first of all you can attract mice inside, such as a pile of stones, a drystone wall, paving slabs with intentionally made cavities underneath, this will increase the success rate.

Most bumble bee species need a dry space about the size a football, with a narrow entrance tunnel approximately 2cm in diameter and 20 cm long. Most species nest underground along the base of a linear feature such as a hedge or wall. Sites need to be sheltered and out of direct sunlight.

There is a spectacular display of wild bee hotels here

More about bumblebees and solitary bees here

Information about the Tree Bumblebee (Bombus hypnorum)