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 Fri, 18 May 2012 04:21:40 +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-18766 Wed, 18 Apr 2012 21:01:12 +0000 http://thebeespace.net/?p=2077#comment-18766 Hi Sutare, yes lifting them all at once would be very heavy. They have hive lifts which are pretty bulky or you can pull each box off one at a time, place your empty, then replace the boxes you took off in the same order and orientation on top of the empty.

Nick

]]> By: Sutare http://thebeespace.net/2009/02/16/how-to-keep-baby-bees-out-of-your-honey-without-even-trying/#comment-18764 Wed, 18 Apr 2012 19:40:57 +0000 http://thebeespace.net/?p=2077#comment-18764 Hi Nick, Nice site You have. I like the hive thinking a most natural way.
Is it not werry hevy to lift the whole hive when adding a new box to the bottom?

]]> By: Nick http://thebeespace.net/2009/02/16/how-to-keep-baby-bees-out-of-your-honey-without-even-trying/#comment-15780 Sat, 18 Feb 2012 16:57:33 +0000 http://thebeespace.net/?p=2077#comment-15780 Hi Charlie, Thanks :-) Take a look at these pictures for the feeder over at biobees: http://warre.biobees.com/feeders.htm

]]> By: charlie http://thebeespace.net/2009/02/16/how-to-keep-baby-bees-out-of-your-honey-without-even-trying/#comment-15758 Sat, 18 Feb 2012 01:25:52 +0000 http://thebeespace.net/?p=2077#comment-15758 thanks nick, best site i ever found . cant say enough good things about it.do you have any better pictures of the feeder”?

]]> By: Nick http://thebeespace.net/2009/02/16/how-to-keep-baby-bees-out-of-your-honey-without-even-trying/#comment-15743 Fri, 17 Feb 2012 19:36:57 +0000 http://thebeespace.net/?p=2077#comment-15743 Hi Charlie, that’s right. Always add new hive boxes to the bottom.

]]> By: charlie http://thebeespace.net/2009/02/16/how-to-keep-baby-bees-out-of-your-honey-without-even-trying/#comment-15716 Fri, 17 Feb 2012 02:19:46 +0000 http://thebeespace.net/?p=2077#comment-15716 hey, iam building a warre hive. ami correct in my thinking that you start with one box then put the next box under that one?

]]> 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.

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