Natural Beekeeping Network

[biobee]

Hello Gunther,

Are you the Gunther who has bees near Start Point? If so, I would like to visit you sometime, if that's possible.

The reason for not having a top entrance is that you would create a 'chimney' effect and the hive atmosphere would escape. This makes a lot of extra work for the bees, as they are unable to plug the 'leak' easily, but in my experience they will try to propolize any entrance that is more than about halfway up the total height of the hive.

Welcome here anyway, whichever Gunther you are!
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[gunther]

cheers for your reply.
i did'nt mean atop and bottom entrance, but only a top one. the bees could'nt propolize their only entrance, suppose feral bees found a hollow tree, which entrance would they prefer, given the choice.
i think for the hive, they prefer vertical to horizontal, i am just fascinated with frere warre's system, but since i have now only this one swarm, and they are lovely gentle bees, iwant to do everything i can, not to loose them over winter. i wonder what to do about varroa, and what to feed them if i have to. every i sit in front of the hive and watch them, they are still cleaning out bits of that mouse nest. they drop dry leaves and stuff outside the hive, but other bits they take far away. i dont know what it is and where they go. all i 've done is changed the floor, and closed half the entrance, since i saw a wasp trying to sneak in.
my bees are near gunnislake just across the tamar river. i have field, where i keep some chickens, try grow some veg. etc.
you are welcome to visit, i understand you are somewhere in devon also

[biobee]

[gunther]

i have just stumbled across ian rumsey's "hollow tree experiment" and other stuff of his about horizontal and vertical cell construction etc. all in line with warre's thinking of hive dimensions. looks like bees can handle the mites and probably brood diseases by themselves, given the right circumstances. modern beekeeping seems to be responsible for the sad state of our bees. maybe some conspiracy from those guys selling the expensive equipment and all the cemicals, just out of sheer greed. ha ha!
my swarm today very busy flying, and carrying lots of pollen, hope the weather lasts a bit, must be getting towards the end of flow now. not worried about honey now, just get this swarm into next season. cherio

[biobee]

[zaunreiter]

I try to adapt the Warre hive with Rumsey's findings.

See: http://www.biobees.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=9859

Bernhard
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(latin: where bees, there health)

[tmackic]

[zaunreiter]

I stumbled over the same. I'm unsure about this, but 21 cm to 34 cm is exactly the Fibonacci Golden Ratio thing. Maybe the bees include the hive body into their sense of the bee colony's organism?

In my super-vertical Warre' I swapped the measurements, so the box became 21cm in width and 34 in height. Well, although the hive was packed with comb only little connection between the boxes occured.

Without further experiments we know only nothing.

Bernhard
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~ ubi apis, ibi salus ~

(latin: where bees, there health)

[tmackic]

[zaunreiter]

External dimension.

I additionally point you to:

http://warre.biobees.com

Bernhard
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~ ubi apis, ibi salus ~

(latin: where bees, there health)

[Viggen]

Is there any indication of how the Warre' hive will function in hot climates? Norm is setting up with them in Spain. Are there others with previous experience in real heat?
Also, if anyone knows, is the Warre' acceptable across the pond in N America? I seem to remember reading that comb had to be moveable or something like that. Although I doubt that of much importance in the greater scheme of things - I doubt there is any govenment interest in a backyard setup of any kind, at least in my part of the desert. They have bigger problems on the southern border.
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[A. S. Templeton]

[Viggen]

Do you know anyone who has done Warré hives in the heat? Seattle area weather in the desert are very far apart. I have seen summers in the Northwest and it's totally different down here - Seattle summers are very mild. If they need shade in Seattle then they will really need it down here.
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[bbhb]

[BP]

bbhb has posted the good information.

If you like me are no longer using international languages much anymore you forget all your keyboard modifiers!

So this is how I do it when my brain is feeling run down.

Excuse the "big honkin" pictures, I have an extremely high resolution screen on my Mac laptop so these appear small on my screen

1. Go to System Preferences
2. Check the Check Mark next to "Show Keyboard & Character Viewer in menu bar"



3. Click on the menu bar icon that now is new on your menu bar for you.

You have two options.

Option 1: Select Show Keyboard Viewer. With this you can remind yourself what the modifier key is and view the keyboard, the orange squares represent the accent modifiers. Here I am holding down the alt/option button on the Mac keyboard



Option 2: Select Show Character Viewer. With this you can just select the character directly instead of the multiple key press option above of modifier plus key.




Cheers,
BP