Entries categorized as ‘Hive Management’
Marika left this comment on “Thoughts On Varroa Mites”
Hi Nick,
1 question I have re: dealing with varroa mites- with Langs you have a sticky board so you can check on mites – I am wondering how you keep tabs of varroa mite with a Warre hive, and from what I am reading it seems as though one leaves it to nature and are not doing anything to get the mites to drop off the bees, onto a sticky board, etc. Is this correct? and how do you look out for mites and what do you suggest beekeeper w/Warre hive do to keep an eye on those pesky mites?
Many thanks!
Marika
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Categories: Beekeeping Advice · Hive Management · Questions Answered
Tagged: Warre Hive, Varroa Mites, HowTo, natural beekeeping, treatments
Not much is worse than checking on a beehive…and seeing a lot of baby bee cells in with your honey.
You can’t get the honey out without killing the baby bees. And you can’t get the baby bees out without ruining the honey.
Not a good situation.
So how do you keep the baby bees out of the honey?
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Categories: Hive Management · Questions Answered
Tagged: beeswax, brood, honeycomb, HowTo, Top Bar Hive
Last September I harvested some honeycomb from one of my Warre hives. In Spring of 2008 I had hived a huge swarm, and over the summer they built up a big hive with lots of good looking honey comb. I decided I would harvest a box of cut comb honey from this hive.
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Categories: Hive Management · Nick's Bees
Tagged: beekeeping, Warre Hive, HowTo, harvesting honey, honeycomb
