Entries categorized as ‘Warre Hive’
I received some Warre hive photos from Brenden recently. Brenden lives not too far from me in a suburb of Portland, Oregon. He built a Warre hive last spring and populated it with bees from a shook swarm. His hive is located in his city backyard where there is plenty of flowering plants, flowers and trees for his bees to forage on. Brenden told me that his bees filled two hives boxes with honey comb in five days!
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Categories: Honeybee Photos · Warre Hive
Tagged: Warre Hive, Top Bar Hive, Sustainable Beekeeping, emile warre, diy beehive, beekeeping in the city
On Tuesday, April 22, 2008, I installed a package of bees in the first Warre Hive here in NW Oregon, USA. It has been one week since then, and the bees are happily living in their new home. They have been bringing in a good bit of pollen and and nectar. There is a creek in the gully near the hive, so I do not need put out any water for them.
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Categories: Nick's Bees · Warre Hive
Tagged: beehive, Warre Hive, Top Bar Hive, honeybees, installing package bees
Installing a bee package is easy when the bees are calm
Two days ago I was able to install a package of bees which were purchased from Ruhl Bee Supply into a Warre Beehive which I had assembled. The bees were surprisingly calm, considering they had just made a long trip from Southern California. After I readied the beehive by rubbing the inside with beeswax, I set it up on a steady hive stand made of 4×4′s and 2″ lumber. Then, I sprayed the bees with a spray bottle containing a mixture of sugar and water in order to make sure they remained completely calm.
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Categories: Beekeeping Advice · Warre Hive
Tagged: beekeeping, Top Bar Hive, HowTo, installing package bees, new beehive
In 2007, I discovered a new hive design
This spring (2008) I am experimenting with a new beehive design. Since I started beekeeping, I have always used the standard ten frame Langstroth hive which is predominant here in America. In the fall of 2007, I learned of a new hive design through the Organicbeekeepers Group on Yahoo. This new hive design was named after its developer, Emile Warre.
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Categories: Nick's Bees · Sustainable Beekeeping · Warre Hive
Tagged: beekeeping, beehive, Top Bar Hive, emile warre
