Comments on: How to Keep Baby Bees Out of Your Honey Without Even Trying http://thebeespace.net/2009/02/16/how-to-keep-baby-bees-out-of-your-honey-without-even-trying/ Smart, Simple & Sustainable Beekeeping Sun, 29 Jan 2012 04:14:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Nick http://thebeespace.net/2009/02/16/how-to-keep-baby-bees-out-of-your-honey-without-even-trying/#comment-14908 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:51:28 +0000 http://thebeespace.net/?p=2077#comment-14908 Hi Bill, sure you can under super a Langstroth hive. From what I understand under supering a Lang is not an efficient use of that style of hive though. I’ve never tried it but there has been alot of discussion and experimentation by other beekeepers. Try doing a google search on “Nadiring vs Supering” and you’ll have quite a few results to choose from.

]]> By: Bill Brewer http://thebeespace.net/2009/02/16/how-to-keep-baby-bees-out-of-your-honey-without-even-trying/#comment-14892 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 04:17:54 +0000 http://thebeespace.net/?p=2077#comment-14892 Found your site while researching warre hives – I am a second year beek with 3 Langstroth hives, and am considering building a warre to compare the two. The concept of adding new boxes to the bottom of the colony is very intriguing, though. Wouldn’t that work with Lang’s as well?? I don’t use queen (honey) excluders, so wouldn’t the same concept apply??

]]> By: Nick http://thebeespace.net/2009/02/16/how-to-keep-baby-bees-out-of-your-honey-without-even-trying/#comment-13746 Fri, 06 Jan 2012 21:30:09 +0000 http://thebeespace.net/?p=2077#comment-13746 Hello Erez, Your welcome :-) once the comb is fully capped with wax then it’s ready. The wax capping keeps moisture out of the honey. Once a cell is filled and at the proper moisture content then the bees cap it. The amount of honey needed to make it through winter depends on how strong the hive is and your climate. You should check with a local bee club and get advice on what’s working in your area.

]]> By: Erez http://thebeespace.net/2009/02/16/how-to-keep-baby-bees-out-of-your-honey-without-even-trying/#comment-13682 Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:32:49 +0000 http://thebeespace.net/?p=2077#comment-13682 Hello Nick. Thank you for your incredibly insightful site! Your site has been an answer to so many prayers on how to keep bees the way our good Lord created them! Hallelujah!

How do I know that the honey is ready to be harvested from the comb? How many hive boxes do I need to keep the bees when they are being wintered and where they have enough honey for their brood? Do I harvest 2 boxes and leave 2 for them? 3 for them and 1 for me? Thanks!

]]> By: Nizam Ismail http://thebeespace.net/2009/02/16/how-to-keep-baby-bees-out-of-your-honey-without-even-trying/#comment-9009 Wed, 31 Aug 2011 12:25:11 +0000 http://thebeespace.net/?p=2077#comment-9009 Hi… I am in South Africa and is really interested in starting a beehive project in my yard… Now how do I get some good stock queen and workers here… I believe the African bee is a little dangerous…. which is the most passive bees and how do i find, or import them…..

]]> By: Nick http://thebeespace.net/2009/02/16/how-to-keep-baby-bees-out-of-your-honey-without-even-trying/#comment-3720 Thu, 09 Dec 2010 18:21:37 +0000 http://thebeespace.net/?p=2077#comment-3720 Hi Pete and welcome to the world of beekeeping! I think using a skep to capture a swarm is a great idea. Very traditional :-) check out this section of The Quest for the Perfect Hive to see a picture of what your wanting to do.

]]> By: Pete Futter http://thebeespace.net/2009/02/16/how-to-keep-baby-bees-out-of-your-honey-without-even-trying/#comment-3715 Thu, 09 Dec 2010 03:43:01 +0000 http://thebeespace.net/?p=2077#comment-3715 Just found your site while researching top-bar hives. We are new beekeepers (since July 2010), and we started off with a Langstroth setup. I intend to build a Warre hive over the winter for the next time our resident feral colony swarms. It has swarmed 3 times in the past year. We managed to capture the 3rd swarm, and they’re doing well, even at -30 Celsius for a couple of nights recently. What’s your opinion on using a kep to capture a swarm to be placed in a regular hive? I saw this done on a YouTube video from the Czech Republic, but the captions were all in Czecho-Slovak.

I’m looking forward to reading more on your site soon.
Thanks very much,
Pete Futter, Prince George, BC, Canada

]]> By: Organicelf http://thebeespace.net/2009/02/16/how-to-keep-baby-bees-out-of-your-honey-without-even-trying/#comment-3176 Tue, 21 Sep 2010 21:38:25 +0000 http://thebeespace.net/?p=2077#comment-3176 Pants!
Thank you for your advice, much appreciated.

]]> By: Nick http://thebeespace.net/2009/02/16/how-to-keep-baby-bees-out-of-your-honey-without-even-trying/#comment-3173 Mon, 20 Sep 2010 21:51:50 +0000 http://thebeespace.net/?p=2077#comment-3173 Hi Organicelf, Skeps are actually illegal in many countries do to the fact that they can’t be inspected for disease, parasites, etc. If there are other managed hives in the area then you may be putting them at risk. As awesome as it would be to have a bee wall like that, I can’t recommend doing it :-(

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