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Musings About Making a Top Bar Hive—the basics

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Tomas
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Location: West Central Honduras, Central America

Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2017 11:42 am Post subject: Musings About Making a Top Bar Hive—the basics

Musings on Beekeeping: Musings About Making a Top Bar Hive—the basics http://musingsonbeekeeping.blogspot.com/2017/01/musings-about-making-top-bar-hivethe.html The newest post on my blog—the basics behind making a simple top bar hive: “The beauty of a top bar hive is that they can be made easily and economically. Although the Langstroth system is the hive of choice for most beekeepers, it is not perfect. The top bar hive (tbh) fills the void for those potential beekeepers who are looking for a needed alternative. These are not only people in a developing country like Honduras, where I live, but also for some people in developed countries like the United States.”

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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)