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	Periscope entrance for bait hive?	11	Chippy	16883	Tue Mar 14, 2017 3:44 pm biobee
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	Wind proofing	0	AndyC	7608	Tue Feb 21, 2017 10:53 am AndyC
	Alternative to hinges on top bar lid.	0	AndyC	7467	Sun Feb 19, 2017 8:23 pm AndyC
	Hive scorching	8	Rusty Strings	12381	Sun Feb 19, 2017 7:45 am trekmate
	Three nice mice occupied my TBH	1	Michael Dreyer	7216	Mon Feb 13, 2017 8:13 am trekmate
	eco floor	5	freebee	10432	Mon Feb 06, 2017 12:37 pm biobee
	TBH material, leylandii cypress	4	rmkeatinge	9943	Sun Jan 22, 2017 2:03 pm rmkeatinge
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	December 8 - Activity	0	beegraham	9073	Thu Dec 08, 2016 9:46 pm beegraham
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	math modeling of honeycomb construction	1	carolina2002	8342	Mon Sep 05, 2016 2:00 pm AugustC
	Honey produced for sale from hTBHs	2	David Heaf	8989	Mon Sep 05, 2016 10:49 am David Heaf
	Praise to the POWER TOOL	7	Craig Howard	14375	Sat Sep 03, 2016 7:25 pm BridgetB
	Combining colonies	6	BridgetB	11839	Tue Aug 23, 2016 8:50 am AndyC
	Transferring frames to TBH	17	Michael Dreyer	22844	Thu Aug 18, 2016 2:19 pm AugustC
	Corner entrance ("diagonal" way)	5	garbeam	9105	Wed Aug 10, 2016 3:12 pm AugustC
	Anyone have Top Bar hives in the San Francisco Bay Area?	4	Labow	8778	Wed Jul 27, 2016 2:08 am Labow
	Adding Frames and Harvest Management	2	oink	7326	Thu Jul 21, 2016 11:30 am AugustC
	Baiting a hive...when...what season?	2	Craig Howard	6355	Thu Jul 14, 2016 1:37 am Craig Howard
	Observation Window for a Beginner	17	planitL	40248	Tue Jul 12, 2016 6:06 am Craig Howard
	The Transfer to TBH gets off to a mixed start	10	BSJ	12818	Mon Jul 11, 2016 10:12 am AugustC
	Perpendicular Combs	0	Adam Rose	4134	Mon Jul 11, 2016 5:08 am Adam Rose
	Trapout - comb of eggs	19	BridgetB	20587	Sun Jul 10, 2016 2:28 pm Barbara
	Optimum temperature range inside a TBH?	10	Craig Howard	12998	Sat Jul 09, 2016 6:42 am trekmate
	Follower Boards ...holes	1	Craig Howard	5095	Tue Jul 05, 2016 9:53 pm ingo50
	Building a Top Bar Hive from the plans...measurements?	3	Craig Howard	6806	Tue Jul 05, 2016 9:11 pm Craig Howard
	Breeding but hardly honey	1	Michael Dreyer	5303	Tue Jun 28, 2016 11:49 am AugustC
	adding stratiolaelaps to a new deep floor	28	nannybee	61655	Fri Jun 24, 2016 7:00 am garbeam
	Transfer from a convention National (or other) nuc to tbh? [ Goto page: 1, 2 ]	34	BSJ	30621	Sun Jun 19, 2016 11:17 am BSJ
	Pondering about top bar width	2	garbeam	6265	Thu Jun 16, 2016 11:09 am madasafish
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	Observation window design	9	johno	19501	Thu May 05, 2016 12:12 pm Ollie
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Quality Top Bar Hives by Andrew Vidler

Conserving wild bees

Research suggests that bumble bee boxes have a very low success rate in actually attracting bees into them. We find that if you create an environment where first of all you can attract mice inside, such as a pile of stones, a drystone wall, paving slabs with intentionally made cavities underneath, this will increase the success rate.

Most bumble bee species need a dry space about the size a football, with a narrow entrance tunnel approximately 2cm in diameter and 20 cm long. Most species nest underground along the base of a linear feature such as a hedge or wall. Sites need to be sheltered and out of direct sunlight.

There is a spectacular display of wild bee hotels here

More about bumblebees and solitary bees here

Information about the Tree Bumblebee (Bombus hypnorum)