Comments on: Listen to Your Bees http://thebeespace.net/2008/08/02/listen-to-your-bees/ Smart, Simple & Sustainable Beekeeping Fri, 18 May 2012 04:21:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Grafton http://thebeespace.net/2008/08/02/listen-to-your-bees/#comment-4724 Mon, 07 Mar 2011 02:44:45 +0000 http://thebeespace.wordpress.com/?p=251#comment-4724 I use a stethoscope to listen to the hive sometimes, simply because it means I don’t have to bend down as far. Also, it allows me to locate the cluster within the hive during the winter, and I like to know how it moves.

I’ve never tried to predict a swarm that way. I don’t worry about swarms. Swarming is healthy, and I don’t believe in taking big measures to prevent it — the simplest way to prevent it is to harvest wax and let your bees build new comb; they won’t swarm if they are building wax unless they need to replace their queen. I don’t want to requeen with a stranger, I like my bees and want to keep those genetics, so I pretty much want them to do it then.

A queenright colony does sound quite different from a queenless one, simply because queenless colonies are unhappy, and they sound it.

]]> By: Patrick Ellis http://thebeespace.net/2008/08/02/listen-to-your-bees/#comment-2035 Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:04:17 +0000 http://thebeespace.wordpress.com/?p=251#comment-2035 One more thing if you do a search on this site for “bee keeping” you will be suprised what you can find for free.
http://www.archive.org/

]]> By: Patrick Ellis http://thebeespace.net/2008/08/02/listen-to-your-bees/#comment-2034 Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:01:27 +0000 http://thebeespace.wordpress.com/?p=251#comment-2034 Interesting comment Ken I too am researching an apidictor a friend of mine is looking at a new way of producing one with modern components as most of the old listed parts are not available any more.I would be pleased to talk to you about progress and may be able to share some info soon on this blog.
Hey Nick love this site its good for me as I know nothing about bees yet,
please keep developing this resource as I soon will be building my own hives one for this year and one for next, I still can’t decide between kenyan top bar or warre style or even some other more natural format. Any suggetions on how to decide?

]]> By: Ken Davis http://thebeespace.net/2008/08/02/listen-to-your-bees/#comment-2027 Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:51:26 +0000 http://thebeespace.wordpress.com/?p=251#comment-2027 Can someone tell me if you can purchase the Woods Apidictor anywhere? If so, where? Have been searching and searching. No luck. Is this something us Beekers will have to make on our own? Waiting to hear from someone. Also, can you forward me contact info to Peter Dight

]]> By: workwithnature http://thebeespace.net/2008/08/02/listen-to-your-bees/#comment-1845 Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:16:04 +0000 http://thebeespace.wordpress.com/?p=251#comment-1845 Hi Nick, that’s quite the amazing thing that, being able to detect a swarm in such a way. Up in till a few days ago I myself was using a jam jar; you know the old trick we all probably did when we were younger. Then a friend of mine gave me a loan of one of those things that the doctors use for listening to your hart. I was amazed how well you could pick up the sound of the bees inside the hive; personally I was doing it to see if my bees were still alive in winter. I would love to get someone to make up one of those apidictors though, especially as I’m not very musical.

Also this might be helpful, I read in a book a few weeks ago that an old way to see if a hive would swarm is if some of the worker bees were found to be crawling on the front of the hive just above the entrance in a horse shoe pattern this was taken as a sure sign that swarm cells were to be started within the next few days.
What you think

]]> By: Trackback http://thebeespace.net/2008/08/02/listen-to-your-bees/#comment-833 Mon, 11 May 2009 18:42:13 +0000 http://thebeespace.wordpress.com/?p=251#comment-833 [...] Dersom noen av dere har hørt om apidictor før, så er vel dette gammelt nytt.  Jeg leste om det for lenge siden før jeg fikk mine egne bier, men hadde glemt fenomenet som er beskrevet i artikkelen Listen to Your Bees. [...]

]]> By: Nick http://thebeespace.net/2008/08/02/listen-to-your-bees/#comment-321 Sat, 27 Dec 2008 03:33:16 +0000 http://thebeespace.wordpress.com/?p=251#comment-321 Deirdra – Thanks for the link. I will check it out. It is always interesting to look at old books and see how “they” did things back then. “Beekeeping for All” is just such a book.

It would be interesting to see exactly what that Bible passage means. Did you insert the text between the parentheses?

]]> By: Deirdra http://thebeespace.net/2008/08/02/listen-to-your-bees/#comment-316 Fri, 26 Dec 2008 17:56:56 +0000 http://thebeespace.wordpress.com/?p=251#comment-316 A google seach brought up this: http://is.gd/dE3A

It is an old bible commentary: 1800′s. Taking about bee’s and bee keeping.

]]> By: Deirdra http://thebeespace.net/2008/08/02/listen-to-your-bees/#comment-315 Fri, 26 Dec 2008 17:52:56 +0000 http://thebeespace.wordpress.com/?p=251#comment-315 In the Bible Zechariah 10:8 there is a reference to hiss

I will hiss for them (as the keeper does for his bees) and gather them in, for I have redeemed them, and they shall increase (again) as they have increased.

So I wonder why the bee keeper hisses? To warn them and have them come together with him just as the queen is hissing to protect them and gather them into a new safe place?

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