TBH Project

Got the timber yesterday for two new TBH's, 21 Meters in all. I was just about to start loading it into my car and spotted it was at best 20mm. After a quick chat with the saleman I left the store with lots of planks of about 27mm thick. I guess I was ignorant about buying prepared sawn timber, thinking I would get what I asked for... Double check before you buy is my advice.

Started building this hive and so far its going well. I'll update with new pictures as I go to those you see below.   




The build is going well, and so far I am very pleased with it. I decided I will go with a hole entrance, as I want to cut down the chances of robbing as I have a lot of wasps and other bee colonies in my area.

Next project

My next project will be some thing like this, but with a pitched roof not flat.

(picture from - http://www.backyardhive.com/)

 18" top bars

It looks good and has large volume area inside and with the window it will cut down the amount of times this hive should need to be opened. Although I will make my version a little deeper than 10" and add a varroa tray as I believe monitoring mite levels is a vital part of pest control and should be done by every beekeeper.

FDBKA - Honey and Bee weekend

Fareham and District Beekeepers Association held a honey and bee weekend at a local farm center.

I thought I would create a video of Mike H and myself showing a general inspection of the hives then I'd edit it down into a short movie for the public but it didn't go quite according to plan.

I didn't have time to organise myself properly and in the end we didn't show this film. Over the two hours of filming I got stung three times, which was my own fault really, Mike rarely wears his gloves unless he is unsure of how his bees are doing, and as I needed to operate the camera's I didn't wear mine... So thought I compile the stings into a short movie for your enjoyment.



No idea why the third sting hurt so much, but the wife enjoyed watching this little movie.