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	umm?	8	mbc	11337	Sun Mar 15, 2015 9:34 pm mbc
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	Spring honey harvest.	3	semiautonomous	6768	Sun Mar 08, 2015 6:18 pm semiautonomous
	Pollen content	9	Garybt	13374	Fri Mar 06, 2015 10:58 pm Che Guebuddha
	Eco floor ponderings	15	stevebuzz	27402	Thu Mar 05, 2015 4:20 pm johnelbar
	TBH - Modifications for Sicily	10	Yettiman	13715	Tue Feb 17, 2015 6:09 pm Yettiman
	TBH Ireland	10	greengage	13289	Thu Feb 12, 2015 7:21 pm rmcpb
	Tools for TBH	4	greengage	6617	Thu Feb 05, 2015 1:26 pm greengage
	top bar width	18	Carlos of the woods	39820	Mon Feb 02, 2015 2:15 pm annao
	Just lost 3 TBHs. Any thoughts?	10	bildom	14619	Wed Jan 21, 2015 11:55 am madasafish
	Length and height of TB and artificial swarming	16	Michael Dreyer	25136	Fri Jan 16, 2015 12:49 pm AugustC
	Comb straightener	1	harrance	5679	Mon Jan 12, 2015 7:55 pm Garret
	Where to install bees in a Top Bar hive	0	Ernie Farmboy	4268	Sun Jan 11, 2015 7:34 pm Ernie Farmboy
	Hive tool preferences	9	stevebuzz	12510	Sat Jan 03, 2015 8:42 pm Tomas
	Propolis collection methods in HTBH's	1	stevebuzz	4533	Thu Jan 01, 2015 3:13 pm zaunreiter
	Mice on top of top bars	4	Trip	6664	Fri Nov 14, 2014 3:19 pm madasafish
	Stores and cluster arrangement for Winter	10	mal	16611	Fri Nov 07, 2014 4:20 pm mannanin
	Colony very small; is it too late to combine?	7	Laurieston	14926	Sun Nov 02, 2014 10:28 pm Adam Rose
	Bees in a standard hive now (30Aug), move to a HTBH when ?	25	mal	162612	Mon Oct 20, 2014 9:35 pm Knucker
	Chandler style TBH with 3 Periscopes and Deep Floor	8	Che Guebuddha	21567	Sat Oct 04, 2014 3:05 pm csturgess
	How you treat Varoa in a HTBH? [ Goto page: 1, 2 ]	42	HowieNZ	67840	Fri Sep 26, 2014 2:35 pm Che Guebuddha
	Where did my bees go? Can't have swarmed?	1	Laurieston	4828	Fri Sep 19, 2014 8:50 pm zaunreiter
	Artifical swarm plus old colony with eco floor?	3	Michael Dreyer	6830	Thu Sep 18, 2014 12:51 pm AugustC
	Entrance quandary	4	stevebuzz	10499	Tue Sep 09, 2014 8:11 pm stevebuzz
	To sand or not to sand?	7	meant2bee	10119	Thu Sep 04, 2014 3:15 am MikeRobinson
	Moving a hTBH without help	2	johno	6090	Wed Sep 03, 2014 11:38 am madasafish
	query regarding hive dimensions	8	shearno	14542	Tue Sep 02, 2014 9:12 pm MikeRobinson
	catenary hive	21	mrwizard	51583	Thu Aug 28, 2014 8:08 am trekmate
	A new swarm.	5	semiautonomous	9641	Tue Aug 26, 2014 6:46 pm olriley
	SHB and Eco (Deep) Floors	3	msscha	9231	Sun Aug 24, 2014 7:08 pm JGW07
	Winter feeding Nucleus TBHs	4	Che Guebuddha	7490	Sat Aug 23, 2014 11:24 am Barbara
	Oil or wax on cedar TBH?	5	ingo50	8691	Sun Aug 03, 2014 1:19 pm Merinos
	Entrances to a KHTBH	5	HowieNZ	11100	Sun Aug 03, 2014 3:29 am J Smith
	anyway to rescue this disaster?	2	ellent	8857	Sun Jul 27, 2014 3:43 pm ValBee
	Lang frames (just a few) in my TBH	0	bentonkb	4617	Fri Jul 25, 2014 4:40 pm bentonkb
	Bees building 3 combs on a bar and up to the ceiling	17	mickburke	23356	Wed Jul 23, 2014 11:50 am MikeRobinson
	Too hot in a deep floor hive?	19	nannybee	27687	Wed Jul 23, 2014 11:29 am MikeRobinson
	Made the transfer....	6	IanT	10247	Sat Jul 12, 2014 6:26 pm IanT
	Transferring from a National frame NUC to a TBH	3	AndyC	6920	Thu Jul 10, 2014 6:15 pm AndyC
	Caught swarm into TBH	8	IanT	11753	Fri Jul 04, 2014 11:52 am AugustC
	Adding bars to growing colony	16	thesolarsailor	23160	Wed Jun 25, 2014 12:20 pm jumbleoak
	Basic hTBH construction question	9	jcfougere	18161	Tue Jun 24, 2014 6:11 pm MikeRobinson
	Merging a TBH Nuc with queen into a TBH with a queen	1	dpepper	4978	Mon Jun 16, 2014 11:28 am Dexter's shed
	TBH construction	13	bajaboyd	17859	Tue Jun 10, 2014 3:40 am MikeRobinson
	Top bar nucleus	7	Carl and Petra	9531	Sun Jun 01, 2014 10:15 pm Che Guebuddha
	Bait Hive stolen N.Yorks	22	AugustC	32542	Wed May 21, 2014 7:47 pm andy pearce
	Bait hive	1	Carl and Petra	5170	Wed May 21, 2014 2:06 pm Dexter's shed
	My first hive	8	wuertele	10889	Tue May 20, 2014 9:39 am Dexter's shed
	Queen not out after 16 days	5	Invision	8166	Mon May 19, 2014 8:04 pm MikeRobinson
	Screened bottom	9	kassnyc	13195	Mon May 19, 2014 7:57 pm MikeRobinson
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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)